Script examples

In this chapter, we have seen how to script in Jelly and how to create a UI page ourselves. Let's bring these two abilities together to make a working UI macro.

This is an example of a request I have been asked for before – an approval summary on the group approval record. Here, we need to create a UI macro and a formatter to add to the group approval form.

Let's start with our group approval summarizer code, creating a brief summary of the task record we will be approving with our group approval:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">
  <tr>
    <td class="label_left" width="100%">
      <label style="margin-left: 12px"> Summary of Record being requested for approval:
        <g:label_spacing/> 
      </label>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>
      <table width="100%">
       <tr>
          <td class=...