Webapp User Action visibility by using entity's attribute value
How-to Guide
Author:
Fluent Commerce
Changed on:
1 May 2025
Key Points
- The best practice for controlling the visibility of the user action button should be driven by the entity status within the ruleset.
- However, if the customer does not want to enhance the list of statuses, this trick can be used to control the User Action button visibility by using the entity's attribute value.
- This article will demonstrate the following in an Order entity:
- Display a user action button: once clicked, it will add an attribute (SENT_TO_WMS) to the order entity
- Update the manifest to check the attribute (SENT_TO_WMS), if the value is not "True", then display the button.
- the sample source code will be provided in this article.
Prerequisites
Steps
Ensure your account has a rule that will add an attribute into the entity
The RULE SDK package contains a rule: `DemoAddAttributeToOrder`Alternatively, feel free to create your own rule to fir your purpose.Create a new Ruleset in the workflow
In this example, a CC Order workflow will be used:Update order management mystique manifest to control the button visibility
Result
The User action button will be displayed if the order attribute's SENT_TO_WMS value is not True:
Otherwise, the button will not be displayed:
