Custom state based on previous page

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Wondering if its possible to programatically update the state of a checkbox based on a button I pressed on a previous page. For example, observe the two navigation scenarios below…

Scenario A

  1. I enter on PAGE1
  2. I click a button ‘Los Angeles’
  3. I’m directed to PAGE2 with a checkbox ‘This Is LA’ selected

Scenario B

  1. I enter on PAGE1
  2. I click a button ‘San Francisco’
  3. I’m directed to PAGE2 with a checkbox ‘This Is LA’ that is DEselected
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Hi Adam. You can do this with wix-storage. You need to add a line to include wix-storage after which in the function you call when clicking ‘Los Angeles’ you put a value into a wix-storage. See HERE . I do it all over my site with the ‘localstorage’. When you click my lanuage icon, the abbreviation is stored and I use that in my dataqueries to fetch the data in the right language.

When you do the part on page2, remember to put in a ‘default’ in case it fails, but that is more important if you use the technology for something else then setting a checkbox.

So:

  1. add import {local} from ‘wix-storage’; import {session} from ‘wix-storage’; (one of the two)
  2. local.setItem(“chkLA”, “Y”); in the function on page 1 for the LA button, and set it with “N” clicking a different button
  3. in the on ready add a part to set the checkbox to check if there is a store item (again add the import too) on page 2
...
// check if exists and is Y
if (local.getItem("chkLA") === "Y") {
    $w("#chkLA").checked = true;
}

See if you can get further with this information.

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Thanks Edgar Ill give this a shot!

4

I take it from this that the pages can’t communicate? Is there a reason?

5

I’m sure they can im just not certain how they should in code. I have a repeater connected to a dataset. I want the data set to automatically filter onReady based on buttons pressed on previous pages.