[question] Update form from modal popup

[ermouth]

[question] Update form from modal popup

[ermouth]

In general, modal is a promise. It is:

• resolved when modal closes normally (some control inside triggers event "commit")
• rejected when modal is escaped (closed by X button, or Esc, or triggering event "cancel" from inside, or you clicked screen dimmer if any).

Root form does not catch modal close, you must let root know explicitly that it must redraw. It‘s intentional behavior. So in your case, when your modal mutates data object of parent form directly it can be something like this:

$ctrl.modal({
  /*modal params here*/
}).then(function(modalData){
  // Here goes code for normal close
  $ctrl.my().root.my("redraw");
}).fail(function(){
  // Here goes code for escaped close
  $ctrl.my().root.my("redraw");
});

If you provided modal with cloned data (that is more suitable in most cases), you must apply data, received from the modal, to a caller form – and then redraw entire caller.

I only have to use "text" (for example) as identifier inside a repeated section, and it is magically bind to the correct item

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