Flash Message

Supported products

• Central CMS
• Central Forms
• Central Connect

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Flash messages alert the user when things happen, this may be to confirm that something has occurred successfully, like saving a document, or when something goes wrong. Flash messages may also highlight problems with the system that the user may need to know about, like a loss of network connectivity which is preventing auto-save.

Dependencies

You will need the FlashMessageComponent to be included in your browserify configuration.

Depending on your setup, this will probably need to be in be in a file called index.js or main.js.

index.js

var FlashMessageComponent = require('/path/to/pulsar/FlashMessageComponent');

module.exports = {
    FlashMessageComponent: FlashMessageComponent
}

main.js

var $html = $('html');

pulsar.flash = new pulsar.FlashMessageComponent($html);

$(function () {
    pulsar.flash.init();
});

Example usage

pulsar.flash.success('Ermahgherd!');

HTML/Twig

Your main view should have a container with the classes of flash-container js-flash-container. Any flash messages you choose to generate on page load should be placed here, and any that you subsequently create through the JS methods will also be placed here.

This is a success message

Helper options

You can configure this helper using the common helper options, the following options are specific to this helper.

Option	Type	Description
dismissable	bool	If false, will hide the dismiss (x) button (default: true)
message	string	The text ti display, can contain HTML/Twig
type	string	The style of message to display: success, warning, error, info

Icons

The icon for a flash message is automatically chosen based on the flash message time and can’t be overridden.

Remove dismiss button

If you want to disable the ability to close a flash message (useful when you have flash messages in modals, for example), use the dismissable option.

This flash cannot be dismissed

Twig

{{
    flash.message({
        'message': 'This flash cannot be dismissed',
        'type': 'error',
        'dismissable': false
    })
}}

HTML

<section class="flash flash--error" aria-labelledby="guid-1121414803"><i aria-hidden="true"  class="icon-warning-sign"></i><h2 id="guid-1121414803">This flash cannot be dismissed</h2></section>

Triggering with JavaScript

You can throw flash messages with JS, and like the Twig helper your styles and icons will be defined automatically.

pulsar.flash.success('Something great happened!');

pulsar.flash.error('Oh no! Something bad happened');

pulsar.flash.warning('Something kinda bad happened, but it’s not
critical...');

pulsar.flash.info('Something interesting happened that we need to tell
you about');