Creating a Popup Interview

When you want to gather information from your template users outside the main flow of your interview, you can use a popup interview based on a script link and a computation.

Prerequisites

To create a popup interview

  1. Open Component Studio.
  2. Open the dialog from which you want to pop up a "child" interview.
  3. On the toolbar at the bottom of either the Contents or Layout tabs of the Dialog Editor, click Create Script Link Dialog Element. The New Script Link Dialog Element then appears.
  4. The following tasks are optional:

For convenience, if you leave the default Name (Script_Link), as you select or create the required computation, HotDocs appends the name of the computation to the end of the default name. For example, Script_Link becomes Script_Link_askLastName as you create a computation called askLastName.

      1. Text  – type the text you want to display on the button or as a hyperlink
      2. Image  – use the Browse button to add the image you want to display on the button or as a hyperlink
  1. When you have finished the optional tasks click OK.
    1. If you just created the computation, open the computation.
    2. On the Script tab of the Computation Editor, type ASK, then a space, then the name of the dialog or variable you want to appear in the popup interview.