What is the right approach to display an entity creational dialog/popup?

[xperiandri]

I have a bit complicated entity creational dialog

How should I implement it with navigation extensions and INavigator?

[kazo0]

@nickrandolph might have some insights but I imagine you would want to navigate to this page using the Dialog qualifier, as seen in this guide: https://platform.uno/docs/articles/external/uno.extensions/doc/Learn/Navigation/HowTo-ShowFlyout.html

And I'm also thinking you'd want to navigate to this page and wait for a result back with the created entity or the cancellation. Which can be accomplished with the INavigator using the NavigateForResultAsync extension method. This is a guide for requesting data through navigation: https://platform.uno/docs/articles/external/uno.extensions/doc/Learn/Navigation/HowTo-SelectValue.html. Although this one is using the GetDataAsync method instead and I'm a little fuzzy on which would be more appropriate for this scenario.

You can see a usage of either in our Commerce sample app here

[nickrandolph]

If you inherit from contentdialog or flyout you don't need the Dialog qualifier as Navigation will automatically display it correctly. If you inherit from Page or UserContorl and specify Dialog, Navigation will put your content within a Flyout (which may not be the desired outcome as it's dismissable)

[xperiandri]

Works great! Thanks!