Buttons - Studio 8 Guide | Mendix Documentation

1 Introduction

Button widgets allow end-users to perform various actions, for example, saving changes or closing the current page:

The following Buttons are available in Mendix Studio as default widgets:

Open Page
Call Microflow
Create Object
Save Changes
Delete Object
Cancel Changes
Close Page
Sign Out
Open Link

Apart from the default button widgets, you can also download widgets from the Mendix App Store to your app. For more information, see the Widgets by Origin section in Widgets.

2 Events Section

Properties in the Events section are partially preset for buttons listed above. They depend on the action a button performs. For example, if the button is supposed to open a page, the On Click Action in the Events section will be Page. However, you need to specify what page exactly the button will open.

For more information, see the Default Properties in the Events Section section.

You can change preset properties, and make the button perform another action.

For more information on the Events section and on click actions, see Events Section.

2.1 Default Properties in the Events Section

On Click Action in the Events section determines the action of the button.

You can find the list of default actions and properties that need to be configured in the table below.

Button	Default Action	Properties to be Configured
Open Page	Page	Page (Select page) If you want to create a new object and pass it as a context to the selected page, enable Create Object (disabled by default) and select an Entity. For more information on see section the Create Object Option section in Events Section. Close pages Control the number of pages to close after navigating to the target page.
Call Microflow	Microflow	Microflow (Select microflow)
Create Object	Create Object	Page (Select page) and Entity (Select entity) Close pages Control the number of pages to close after navigating to the new or edit page.
Save Changes	Save Changes	None
Delete Object	Delete Object	None
Cancel Changes	Cancel Changes	None
Close Page	Close Page	Close pages Control the number of pages to close.
Sign Out	Sign Out	None
Open Link	Open Link	For Open Link you need to configure the following properties: Link Type (Default: Web) Source (Default: Use literal value) Url For more information on these properties, see the Open Link Action section in Events Section.

3 General Section

Properties available in the General section are described in the table below.

Property	Description
Caption	Defines the text that will be shown on the button. Buttons have preset captions depending on the action they perform.
Icon	Determines the icon that will be shown in front of the caption of the button.
Render Mode	Defines the way the button will be shown to the end-user. Possible options are the following: Button (default) – the widget will be rendered as a button Link – the widget will be rendered as a hyperlink
Style	Applies a predefined styling to the button. Possible options are the following: Default (default for all buttons except Save Changes) Inverse Primary Info Success (default for the Save Changes* button)* Warning Danger The color for each style depends on your settings in the Theme Customizer. For details, see Theme Customizer.

4 Conditional Visibility

Conditional visibility allows you to hide a widget from a page unless the certain conditions are met.

For information on the Conditional Visibility section and its properties, see Conditional Visibility Section.

5 Design Section

For information on the Design section and its properties, see Design Section.