Binding action views to a table row

A rowbound action specifies an action to apply to the selected row. Rowbound actions get specific rendering.

Rowbound actions are action defined with the ROWBOUND action attribute, when using a DISPLAY ARRAY or INPUT ARRAY dialog to control a table or tree view:

DISPLAY ARRAY arr TO sr.*
   ...
   ON ACTION copy_row ATTRIBUTES(ROWBOUND, TEXT="Copy row")
      ...

Rowbound actions are available to the end user as options of a three-dots button, on the right of TABLE, TREE and SCROLLGRID rows:

On devices with mouse pointer (desktop), the three-dots button appears when the mouse hovers a row.
On touch devices (mobile), the three-dots button is displayed when selecting the current row.

If the action is disabled, the corresponding rowbound action view of the three-dots button will not be displayed.

Figure: Table view with rowbound actions

Important:

The main purpose of the ROWBOUND attribute is to have the corresponding action enabled and disabled automatically by the runtime system, depending on the existence of a row. The default decoration of such action is front-end platform driven and is the consequence of using the ROWBOUND action attribute. A DISPLAY ARRAY or INPUT ARRAY can be used with a plain form that show a single row at a time. The rowbound actions can also be used in such case, using form buttons as action views for example. These buttons will be automatically enabled/disabled according to the list content.