Sidebar vs Modal Dialogs

The Wicket viewer supports two different styles of dialog prompts for actions that have parameters: as a sidebar, and as a (movable) modal dialog.

  • The sidebar prompt style looks like this:

    sidebar

  • while the modal dialog looks like:

    modal

The sidebar is the default prompt style, and its benefit is that it doesn’t obscure the rest of the information shown on the page; it also doesn’t interrupt the end-user’s context so much (they are more likely to remember why they invoked the action).

The causeway.viewer.wicket.prompt-style can be used to change the default style if required.