Use form buttons without dialog boxes?

[TommySWE]

This sounds like a silly question at first, but is there a way to use the form buttons in the "Forms" or "Global Forms" tabs without having to see the actual form? I.e. can I use a form button to trigger a rule directly?

This is to avoid having to go into Rules/External Rules, find the rule, right click it and run - instead I would have some "Rules" run by form buttons from those tabs instead. Is this doable?

[CCarreiras]

You can start a rule from a form button.

You can suppress the rule in the tree and fire it from a form button, only when you need it... but you have to open the form where is the button...

[TommySWE]

Yeah I would like to be able to skip opening the form, or somehow make it an invisible operation if possible.

[LukeDavenport · Accepted solution]

Hi TommySWE,

Does this blog help?

http://bit.ly/ZS822x

Luke

[TommySWE]

Well, both yes and no. It does what I already know, to make a form with a button to launch a rule. I want the rule to execute immediately when pressing the button in the "Forms" tab, without having to interact with a dialog box, just to save a step. This doesn't seem possible as far as anyone has been able to tell me this far. Its just a small thing to skip an unnecessary step in some cases.

[LukeDavenport]

Hi TommySWE,

Did you read the blog properly? I think it describes exactly what you are looking for - you can click a button on the 'forms' tab which will activate a rule not a form. 

Luke

[TommySWE]

I did now 😄

It is indeed exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a bunch!

[LukeDavenport]

Haha. Excellent!