The following button sets an error to be displayed in an HeaderErrorPara widget and refreshes the page.

This is an error message

This table lists the Responders called to produce this page:

skiwidgets,8506AllowStoreRaises the error
skiwidgets,8502SubmitDataSets up title and widget description
skiwidgets,8504This pageheaders.HeaderErrorPara template

This is a ShowCallData widget, which displays the contents of the skicall.call_data dictionary.

{('buttonlink2', 'get_field1'): 'show error'}

Below is the Python file which populates this page.

import os

from skipole import FailPage, GoTo, ValidateError, ServerError, ServeFile, PageData, SectionData


def index(skicall):
    "Sets up the page"

    # the title and widget decription is in section 'header' which contains a
    # HeadText widget with name 'title' and a TextBlockPara widget with name 'widgetdesc'
    # It also has a ButtonLink2 widget with name 'tomodule'
    headersection = SectionData('header')
    headersection['title', 'large_text'] = 'HeaderErrorPara'
    # A textblock contains the widget description
    ref = "widgets.headers.HeaderErrorPara"
    headersection['widgetdesc','textblock_ref'] = ref
    headersection['widgetdesc','text_refnotfound'] = f'Textblock reference {ref} not found'
    # link to this widgets module page
    headersection['tomodule','button_text'] = "Module: headers"
    headersection['tomodule','link_ident'] = skicall.makepath('headers')
    skicall.update(headersection)

    # this code file contents is placed in section 'codefile' which contains a
    # PreText widget with name 'pretext'
    codesection = SectionData('codefile')
    code = os.path.realpath(__file__)
    with open(code) as f:
        codesection['pretext', 'pre_text'] = f.read()
    skicall.update(codesection)



def show_error(skicall):
    "Called by a button to show the HeaderErrorPara widget"
    if ('buttonlink2', 'get_field1') not in skicall.call_data:
       raise FailPage(message="Invalid call")

    if skicall.call_data['buttonlink2', 'get_field1'] != 'show error':
      raise FailPage(message="Invalid call")

    # raise an error to be shown in the ErrorPara widget
    raise FailPage(message = 'This is an error message', widget='headererrorpara')