I have that action_item on my admin page:
action_item :only => :index do link_to I18n.t('admin.dem_ref_nvl_etb'), :action => 'whatever' end I'd like to know how I could display a pop-up window by clicking that link above, pretty much just like batch_action does when you use it with a "form" option (I don't need such an action here, it's just a basic link).
Any hint ?
Thanks a million for reading and helping!
Building on Hugues's answer, here's a more fleshed-out example that I managed to cobble together with my very meager javascript skills:
In app/assets/javascripts/active_admin.js:
//= require active_admin/base $(document).on('ready page:load turbolinks:load', function() { $('a.lextest').click(function(e) { e.stopPropagation(); // prevent Rails UJS click event e.preventDefault(); ActiveAdmin.modal_dialog("Send email to: ", {emails: 'text'}, function(inputs) {alert (inputs.emails)}) }) }) Note that I don't use the default active_admin.js.coffee because I dislike coffeescript -- just a personal preference. This code adds an onClick event handler to all links with class lextest. Now you can create such a link with a link_to:
link_to('Modal', '#', class: 'lextest')
I cobbled this all together from the way batch_action is implemented.
I found out your answer to your question. I won't go into much details as I suppose you know your Javascript, but this could be expand further.
ActiveAdmin come with a modal dialog javascript library. It is quite crude, but can get the job done. You can read about its existance on this documentation page: http://activeadmin.info/docs/9-batch-actions.html toward the 3/4 down at the end of the Batch Action form section. For the exact code check github: https://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/active_admin/lib/modal_dialog.js.coffee
And this is a very basic example you can copy paste in a javascript console to check the effect.
ActiveAdmin.modal_dialog("Send email to: ", {emails: 'text'}, function(inputs) {alert (inputs.emails)}) As long as your good with your Javascript skills, you should be on track.
