From 31758827aeeea65063f4a92d7a86a0ce993dde25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxime Beauchemin <maximebeauchemin@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 13:33:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] + button on Slice list view redirects to Table view with
 alert

---
 caravel/templates/caravel/add_slice.html | 4 ++++
 caravel/views.py                         | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 caravel/templates/caravel/add_slice.html

diff --git a/caravel/templates/caravel/add_slice.html b/caravel/templates/caravel/add_slice.html
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..010c3b5fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/caravel/templates/caravel/add_slice.html
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+<script>
+  var msg = "Click on a table link to create a Slice";
+  window.location = "/r/msg/?url={{ '/tablemodelview/list/' }}&msg=" + msg;
+</script>
diff --git a/caravel/views.py b/caravel/views.py
index f6ce86130..ad5fdbcf5 100644
--- a/caravel/views.py
+++ b/caravel/views.py
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ if config['DRUID_IS_ACTIVE']:
 
 class SliceModelView(CaravelModelView, DeleteMixin):  # noqa
     datamodel = SQLAInterface(models.Slice)
+    add_template = "caravel/add_slice.html"
     can_add = False
     label_columns = {
         'created_by_': 'Creator',
@@ -405,6 +406,12 @@ class R(BaseView):
         return("{request.headers[Host]}/r/{obj.id}".format(
             request=request, obj=obj))
 
+    @expose("/msg/")
+    def msg(self):
+        """Redirects to specified url while flash a message"""
+        flash(request.args.get("msg"), "info")
+        return redirect(request.args.get("url"))
+
 appbuilder.add_view_no_menu(R)