Button text binding

GoJS
1

Hi Guys,

I’m using the standard nodeTemplate and am adding a button to the node with a JS script to redirect somewhere else as follows:

$("Button",<br /> {click: function(){window.location.href="Rd-01.html?asset=" +<br /> $(go.TextBlock, new go.Binding("text", "key"));}},<br /> { alignment: go.Spot.Top, alignmentFocus: go.Spot.Right },<br /> $(go.TextBlock, new go.Binding("text", "key"))));<br />
the button has the right text but the href link doesn’t… what I get is

Rd-01.html?asset=TextBlock("")

How do I get the href to have the right text (as on the Button)?

Many thanks in advance as 1) relatively new to JS and 2) very new to GoJS

Best regards

2

The problem is that you are mixing JavaScript code (the href assignment statement) with the declaration of the visual structure of a “Button” Panel. You need to find the TextBlock that is actually in the Button and get its TextBlock.text property. Here is one possibility that assigns a name to the TextBlock so that you can call Panel.findObject on it:
$(“Button”,
{ click: function(e, obj) {
var tb = obj.findObject(“TB”);
window.location.href=“Rd-01.html?asset=” + tb.text;
}
},
$(go.TextBlock,
{ name: “TB” },
new go.Binding(“text”, “key”)))

[Please pardon any typos.]