Configuring conditions for enabling Results Table actions

For most Results Table actions, including column actions, action columns, and the Actions menu, you can set up a condition to determine whether the action is enabled.

Note that for the Actions menu, you can only configure conditions for the Refinement and Pass Parameters actions. For action columns, you can only configure conditions for the Refinement and Hyperlink actions. Print, Export, Compare, and Details actions never have conditions.

For column values, the condition fields display in the Column Actions section of the column configuration dialog.


Empty condition fields for a Results Table column action

For Actions menu and action column actions, the configuration dialog contains a separate Conditional Action Display section.


Conditional Action Display section for a Results Table action

To configure the condition to control whether the action is available:

  1. To select the attribute for the condition, click the Select Attribute button. On the attribute selection dialog, click the attribute to use, then click Apply.

    You can select any of the columns in the table.

  2. From the is drop-down list, select the comparison operator to use for the condition.

    The options are:

    Option Description
    Equal to Indicates that the condition applies if the column value is equal to the comparison value.
    Not equal to Indicates that the condition applies if the column value is not equal to the comparison value.
    null Indicates that the condition applies if the column value is null.
    not null Indicates that the condition applies if the column value is a value other than null.
  3. For the equal to and not equal to comparisons, in the value field, type the value to use for the comparison.
  4. From the then drop-down list, select whether to enable or disable the action if the condition is met.

When an action has an associated condition, then on the end user view:

Action Type Effect of Action Condition
Column values For rows that should not have the action, the column value is not hyperlinked.
Action columns For rows that should not have the action, the action column is empty. It does not display the icon or hyperlink.
Actions menu For Actions menu options, users must first select at least one row to perform the action on.
  • If all of the selected rows should not have the action, the action is disabled (grayed out) in the Actions menu.
  • If at least one of the selected rows can have the action, the action is enabled.