Activating a Modal Screen programatically

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I have a modal screen that opens fine with button code as below:
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I would like to get the modal screen to open programatically. I am using the code as below:

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This does not work.

How should I do this?

Mike

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Hey @mdsmith1,

I think the method you're looking for is modalFrame5.setHidden(false) (documentation here).

In all honesty, I do think modal.show and modal.hide are a bit confusing and they should work. However I've never used them and it seems setHidden is the way to go.

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Hey Mike, can you confirm where you are running this code. This seems to be within a SQL query which would not have access to the retool js context?

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Hi Miguel;

Unfortunately modalFrame5.setHidden(false) generates an error message.

I looked at the documentation and I can't find a better way of doing this.

Mike