Application Engine/CI to trigger a push button

Hi Team

I use an AE/CI to trigger a push button on a page. However, despite the CI saving the component succesfully I am unable to trigger the push button. Below are the options I tried;

1. Setting the default value of workrecord.pushbutton to "N" and then in the CI, I assigned collection.pushbutton.value = "Y"  ----- This did not work

2. Assigned the workrecord.pushbutton.value = "N" in the rowinit of the workrecord.pushbutton field and then in the CI, I assigned collection.pushbutton.value = "Y"  ----- This did not work

Functionality wise, the push button upon clicking on the page will shows a message box and then we are supposed to save the page to have the values updated to database. I presume CI will ignore such messageboxes that require user input. However, I still went to the peoplecode behind push button and ignored the message if the component is updated by my CI.