If you’re an application designer, you can create a bookmark set technical object so application users can save the state of your analytical app at runtime.

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In order to dynamically create bookmarks in the analytics application, please follow the steps below.

Before staring, create Bookmark set from scripting.

1. First create one popup with components inside.

Radio Button Group Value:

2. Create ScriptObject with two script function, with name myBookmark

• getBookmarkCreate one Arguments, with return type void.

Add this below code in getBookmark()

var bookmarks = BookmarkSet_1.getAll(); 
Dropdown_1.removeAllItems();

var globalType = false;
if(type==="true"){
	globalType = true;
}

for (var i =0 ; i<bookmarks.length;i++){
	if(bookmarks[i].isGlobal === globalType){
		Dropdown_1.addItem(bookmarks[i].id,bookmarks[i].name);
	}
}

if(bookmarks.length>=1){
	Dropdown_1.setSelectedKey(bookmarks[0].id);
}

• setBookmarkCreate two Arguments, with return type void.

Add this below code in setBookmark()

var globalType = false;
if(type==="true"){
	globalType = true;
}

BookmarkSet_1.saveBookmark({name: name, isGlobal: globalType});
Application.showMessage(ApplicationMessageType.Success,InputField_1.getValue()+" Bookmark Saved");

3. Add this all code inside all components mentioned below

• RadioButtonGroup_1

myBookmark.getBookmark(RadioButtonGroup_1.getSelectedKey());

• Button_1

myBookmark.setBookmark(InputField_1.getValue(),RadioButtonGroup_1.getSelectedKey());
myBookmark.getBookmark(RadioButtonGroup_1.getSelectedKey());

• Button_2

BookmarkSet_1.apply(Dropdown_1.getSelectedKey());

• Button_3

BookmarkSet_1.deleteBookmark(Dropdown_1.getSelectedKey());
Application.showMessage(ApplicationMessageType.Success,Dropdown_1.getSelectedText()+" Bookmark Deleted");
myBookmark.getBookmark(RadioButtonGroup_1.getSelectedKey());

4. Create new Button in Canvas, and open popup with this code

Popup_1.open();

Conclusion

In the case of multiple components or filters, we have to save our application states multiple times, so bookmarking is the best way to save multiple states quickly.