Hi,

Is it possible to fire a FormAction button from within CMSFields? I'm currently using the following code but the button click doesn't want to fire the form action. Does this need to be called through a custom entwine function or is there something already built in that I'm missing?

class NotesPage extends Page {
	function getCMSFields() {
		$fields = parent::getCMSFields();

		// Page Sections
		$fields->addFieldsToTab('Root.Notes', array(
			// Send for approval
			LiteralField::create('', '<h3>Notify Admin Of Content To Approve</h3>'),
			FormAction::create('NotifyAdmin', 'Notify Admin'),
		));

		return $fields;
	}
}

class NotesPageExtension extends LeftAndMainExtension {
    private static $allowed_actions = array(
		'NotifyAdmin'
    );

	// Email the admin about content to moderate
	public function NotifyAdmin($data, $form){
		$className = $this->owner->stat('tree_class');
        $SQL_id = Convert::raw2sql($data['ID']);

        $record = DataObject::get_by_id($className, $SQL_id);

        if(!$record || !$record->ID){
            throw new SS_HTTPResponse_Exception(
                "Bad record ID #" . (int)$data['ID'], 404);
        }

        // at this point you have a $record,
        // which is your page you can work with!

        // this generates a message that will show up in the CMS
        $this->owner->response->addHeader(
            'X-Status',
            rawurlencode('Notifying admin')
        );

        return $this->owner->getResponseNegotiator()->respond($this->owner->request);
	}
}

Cheers

You might like to look into the workflow module.
It manages what it looks like you're trying to achieve.

It look's like there is actually an inlineformaction field available http://api.silverstripe.org/3.1/class-InlineFormAction.html

Thanks for your help.