Add EM functionality to report pages

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Redcap External Module to access other redcap forms, plugins, or arbitrary pages in a modal.

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Add EM functionality to report pages #1

Open ThomasVermes opened 1 year ago

ThomasVermes commented 1 year ago

Dear Adam, once again great EM allowing a bettere redcap usability!! if I understood correctly, it is possible to open the modal only in a redcap_data_entry_form right? would be possible to active the function also in other pages? We would like to use it in report

nb: to make the report field work as "link" we used this little trick saving the field as calctext

@CALCTEXT(concat('<a class="modale"','>Open Modal<','/a>'))

aanunez commented 1 year ago

Hey @ThomasVermes. I'm not sure if I'll be able to add this functionality, but I'll leave this open with a few notes on it.

Possible issues:

We would need to collect report id so we know when to load settings
Collect a new "origin" setting with default value on data form and another option "report"
URLs used on reports would need to have record id populated in JS so we could build them when we have the report ready

ThomasVermes commented 1 year ago

ah, then is more complicate than what I tought. I thought it might be an option to save the link in a variable and just opening the link with the module class..

aanunez commented 4 months ago

I've decided that I won't be implementing this. I think wanting to open a record as a modal from a report won't see much use compared to just opening in a new tab. In addition to that the issues above also exist. I do think this would be easier to add to the Report Tweaks EM, but due to not see the use case I've decided to not add it as an issue there either.

ThomasVermes commented 4 months ago

Dear Adam, not to reopen this issue ;) but a case would be that user have a list of patient and they need to entry some dates from an external tool (which is difficult to import). With the Modal the user would be redirected not to only to the record, but also to the right instrument. Here below a small gif as example of what I've implemented (with javascript and more "help"-Variables). potential_use_of_portal_em

My users where quite happy with that. Of course they spare probably 2 clicks, but also the fact that they stay on the report page is helpfull..("open link in a new Tab" is not known by everyone =)

That's all, I just wanted to show you some usability =) cheers Thomas

aanunez commented 4 months ago

Opening the issue again.

For config we can just have a field drop down per modal config group. If that field is on the report add a button to the cell that opens to the defined modal destination.