BF Actions Processing Order

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Wondering if anyone can shed some light on the order that BF processes operations. If I ran a named action that did this sequentially:

Show wait modal
Run FM Hook
Send back data via $$BF_Model
Run JS function to evaluate data sent back in $$BF_Model

Could I expect for the $$BF_Model data to be available for the JS function?

From what I see, it appears the data from $BF_Model is not available to the site until this named action completed.

Here’s my namedAction:

"loadData": [{
            "action": "function",
            "function": "app.env.waitModal.body = \"Please wait while we copy data from your previous registration\"; app.env.waitModal.titleHeader = \"Please Wait\""
        }, {
            "action": "namedAction",
            "name": "showWaitModal"
        }, {
            "action": "runUtilityHook",
            "options": {
                "action": "loadPreviousData",
                "context": "",
                "details": ""
            }
        }, {
            "action": "function",
            "function": "if ( model.state.dataCopied) {\n    EventBus.$emit('processNamedAction', {\n        \"action\": \"namedAction\",\n        \"name\": \"showCopySuccessModal\"\n    })\n}\nelse {\n    EventBus.$emit('processNamedAction', {\n        \"action\": \"namedAction\",\n        \"name\": \"showCopyFailModal\"\n    })\n}"
        }],

In the inspector, I see that model.state.dataCopied is undefined, despite it being set to $$BF_Model in the utility hook.

Once the named action completes, the data is available in the inspector, so I’m inferring that the data from $$BF_Model is not available to the site until after the queued actions complete?

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In general:

  • Actions are queued when called
  • Actions run in order, calling a namedAction will add the namedAction to the front of the queue. ( much like performing a sub-script)
  • function keys run just prior to the associated function.
  • When a hook returns from FMS, the data model is updated before any actions are written.

HTH