Strange issue, I'm using the extlib name picker, looking up a view of names (we don't use a NAB), which can be searched, a name selected and then added. This all works fine. EXCEPT, if a user has an apostrophe in their name. The search works, the name shows, but when you click Add, it simply doesn't do anything, and this is for ANY name with an apostrophe. Has anyone encountered this or know how to get around it? Any help greatly appreciated as there are no errors, or anything written to the console logs or online articles I can find describing it. Thanks Code below:
<xp:inputText id="lstPELName" value="#{document1.PELName}"
maxlength="0" style="display: none;">
<xp:eventHandler event="onchange" submit="true"
refreshMode="partial" refreshId="refreshResponse">
<xp:this.action><![CDATA[#{javascript:try{
document1.save();
// Set People Leader details
var agent:NotesAgent = database.getAgent("SetPELDetails");
agent.runWithDocumentContext(currentDocument.getDocument());
}catch(e){
openLogBean.addError(e,this.getParent());
}}]]></xp:this.action>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:inputText>
<div class="col-xs-3 no-border" id="divPELPicker">
<xe:namePicker id="approversNamePicker" for="lstPELName">
<xe:this.dataProvider>
<xe:dominoViewNamePicker databaseName="ppg\dpi.nsf"
viewName="CurrentProfilesByOwner" labelColumn="SystemName">
</xe:dominoViewNamePicker>
</xe:this.dataProvider>
<xe:this.pickerText><![CDATA[#{javascript:"Select your People Leader:";
}]]></xe:this.pickerText>
</xe:namePicker>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-9 no-border" id="divPELName">
<xp:text escape="true" id="cmpPELName"
value="#{document1.PELName}">
</xp:text>
</div>
I assume somewhere a character conversion is missing, probably to JSON. Can you modify the column in the view, and replace an apostrophe by its Unicode equivalent? That would be \u0027. You might have to escape the \ to make it work, as \\ or even \\\\.
Related
I recently discovered a problem with the xe:djextListTextBox control using xe:valuePicker for values that have synonyms/aliases. If the synonyms are similar between pickers that are bound to different fields, when selecting the value for the first field, selecting the matching value for the second field displays the text from the first selection.
For example, picker #1 has 3 values with aliases/synonyms: blue|1, green|2, yellow|3. Picker # 2 has 3 different values but the same synonyms: red|1, orange|2, purple|3.
If I select "blue" for picker # 1 it displays "blue." When I then select "red" for picker #2, instead of displaying "red", it displays "blue".
The good thing is that when the document is saved (the synonyms are saved correctly) and reopened in Read mode, the two fields properly display the correct values. The issue seems to be in Edit mode. Has anyone come across this before and aware of a fix?
Here is test code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xp:view xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core" xmlns:xe="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/coreex">
<xp:this.data>
<xp:dominoDocument var="doc1" />
</xp:this.data>
<p>
k1
<xe:valuePicker for="k1" pickerText="add">
<xe:this.dataProvider>
<xe:simpleValuePicker valueList="blue|1;green|2;yellow|3" labelSeparator="|" valueListSeparator=";" />
</xe:this.dataProvider>
</xe:valuePicker>
</p>
<p>
<xe:djextListTextBox id="k1" value="#{doc1.k1}"
displayLabel="true" multipleSeparator=";" multipleTrim="true" />
</p>
<p>
k2
<xe:valuePicker for="k2" pickerText="add">
<xe:this.dataProvider>
<xe:simpleValuePicker valueList="red|1;orange|2;purple|3" labelSeparator="|" valueListSeparator=";" />
</xe:this.dataProvider>
</xe:valuePicker>
</p>
<p>
<xe:djextListTextBox id="k2" value="#{doc1.k2}"
displayLabel="true" multipleSeparator=";" multipleTrim="true" />
</p>
</xp:view>
I ended up opening a ticket with HCL and their suggested workaround was to add an onChange event to the djextListTextBox to refresh its value. I'm not thrilled with it because I have a lot of fields and it's a performance hit, but it does work.
<xp:div id="refreshTarget">
...
<p>
<xe:djextListTextBox id="k1" value="#{doc1.k1}" style="font-size:smaller"
displayLabel="true" multipleSeparator=";" multipleTrim="true">
<xp:eventHandler event="onChange" submit="true" refreshMode="partial"
refreshId="refreshTarget" />
</xe:djextListTextBox>
</p>
</xp:div>
I need to create 3 fields in one row every time a new objective is needed. objective1, midYear1, endYear1. Then if I add an objective, objective2, midYear2, endYear2 and so on. Everything seems to work, first time, but second time it creates loads of fields. I assume its the way I'm nesting / not nesting/using my repeats correctly as my viewScope variables are all correct, so it's just displaying of the fields that I'm confusing myself with. I just need each of the 3 fields in one column each, then new row and repeat.....Code below, however am also open to suggestions if anyone has a better approach..... Thanks
<xp:this.data>
<xp:dominoDocument
var="document1"
formName="objective">
</xp:dominoDocument>
</xp:this.data>
<xp:repeat id="repeat1" rows="100" value="#{viewScope.fields}"
var="fieldName">
<xp:repeat id="repeat2" rows="100" value="#{viewScope.fields2}"
var="fieldName2">
<xp:repeat id="repeat3" rows="100" value="#{viewScope.fields3}"
var="fieldName3">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-4">
<xp:label value="#{fieldName}" for="inputText1">
</xp:label>
<xp:inputText id="inputText1">
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{document1[fieldName]}]]></xp:this.value>
</xp:inputText>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-4">
<xp:label value="#{fieldName2}" for="inputText2">
</xp:label>
<xp:inputText id="inputText2">
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{document1[fieldName2]}]]></xp:this.value>
</xp:inputText>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-4">
<xp:label value="#{fieldName3}" for="inputText3">
</xp:label>
<xp:inputText id="inputText3">
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{document1[fieldName3]}]]></xp:this.value>
</xp:inputText>
</div>
</div>
</xp:repeat>
</xp:repeat>
</xp:repeat>
<xp:button
value="Add Objective"
id="button1">
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="true" refreshMode="partial"
refreshId="repeat1">
<xp:this.action><![CDATA[#{javascript:
if (!viewScope.fields) {
viewScope.fields = [];
viewScope.fields2 = [];
viewScope.fields3 = [];
var count:integer = 1;
}
viewScope.fields.push("Objective" + (viewScope.fields.length + 1));
viewScope.fields2.push("MidYear" + (viewScope.fields2.length + 1));
viewScope.fields3.push("EndYear" + (viewScope.fields3.length + 1));
count = count+1;
}]]></xp:this.action>
</xp:eventHandler>
The problem is that by nesting, for each entry in coumn 1, you're creating n instances of column 2. Then for each entry in column, you're creating n instances of column 3. If you want this approach, you're best off creating a single viewScope variable, where each element has the fieldnames for each objective (as an object or array), then just using a single repeat using that single viewScope variable.
Building this for Notes Client / traditional Domino web was historically a huge pain because the restriction was you could not edit multiple documents (easily) in the same UI, because the Form was both the schema for storage and the design for the UI.
XPages means that's no longer a restriction. The XPage is the UI, (dominoDocument / bean) data sources are the schema for storage.
As a result, my preferred approach is to break the structure for storage up into more granular elements. So each Objective would be its own document, with fixed bindings to "objective", "midYear", "endYear".
There are then a variety of approaches for creating a new entry. One is a single fixed row at the top with a dominoDocument datasource with scope="request" ignoreRequestParams="true". Save can then add the NoteID / UNID to a repeat that then retrieves the values from the relevant document(s) to display / edit.
A more advanced approach would be to have a viewScope variable with an additional option (at beginning or end), then compute the dominoDocument datasource that's within the repeat to either retrieve the relevant document (i.e. action="openDocument") or create a new one (i.e. action="newDocument").
I'm using a <xe:djTabContainer> with 10 <xe:djTabPane> containing numerous fields components.
There is a principal combobox whose value will determine which fields to be showed or not and in this way the document structure will be achieved.
If I will use this approach, then for all my >50 fields which I want to show/hide, I will use only the onChange event of the combobox?
Considering the fact that there are >50 fields which enter in this category < showing&hiding them >, should I use another approach / method? Thanks for your time.
<xp:comboBox value="#{Contr.txt_tipcontractcv}" id="comboBox4"> <xp:selectItems id="selectItems1">
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:return ""}]]></xp:this.value>
</xp:selectItems>
<xp:selectItems id="selectItems2">
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:#DbColumn(#DbName(),"SetupvwTipuriContracteC",1);}]]> </xp:this.value>
</xp:selectItems>
<xp:eventHandler event="onchange" submit="false"> <xp:this.script><![CDATA[XSP.partialRefreshPost("#{id:FisaP}", {
});
]]></xp:this.script> </xp:eventHandler> </xp:comboBox>
and the panel:
<xp:panel id="FisaP">
<xp:label id="label4"
style="color:rgb(128,0,0);font-family:verdana;font-size:9pt;font-weight:bold">
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:"Fisa contract "+ Contr.getItemValueString("txt_tipcontractcv")}]]></xp:this.value>
<xp:this.rendered><![CDATA[#{javascript:
Contr.getItemValueString("txt_tipcontractcv") != ""
}]]></xp:this.rendered>
</xp:label>
</xp:panel>
I would turn it around. Let the labels and fields ask the combobox if they should be rendered or not. Let the combobox's onchange event initiate a partial refresh of a panel which includes all fields you want to show/hide.
If your >50 fields are all on one place you can frame them with a panel and set the rendered property there.
If your combobox is bound to a viewScope variable the rendered property of fields/labels would be
rendered="#{javascript:viewScope.tipcontractcv1 == 'Vanzare-Cumparare'}"
or if it is bound to a document field then
rendered="#{javascript:document1.getItemValueString('txt_tipcontractcv1') === 'Vanzare-Cumparare'}"
Update:
Based on your code in your answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/25636661/2065611 take the following steps so get it to work with the Dojo Tab Container:
1.
Put the labels and fields in panels which do have an id but don't have a rendered attribute
<xp:panel id="panel1">
<xp:label value="Persoane spre informare" ... id="label2">
<xp:this.rendered><![CDATA[#{javascript:
Contr.getItemValueString("txt_tipcontractcv1") == "Vanzare-Cumparare"
}]]></xp:this.rendered>
</xp:label>
... other label and fields ...
</xp:panel>
You can create other panels "panel2", "panel3", ... too. They can be placed in different djTabPanes.
2.
Change the onchange event of your combobox and execute client side code to refresh the panels
<xp:eventHandler
event="onchange"
submit="false">
<xp:this.script><![CDATA[
XSP.partialRefreshPost("#{id:panel1}", {
onComplete: function() {
XSP.partialRefreshPost("#{id:panel2}");
}
});
]]></xp:this.script>
</xp:eventHandler>
3.
You can optimize your code if you put labels and fields with the same rendered attribute together into an additional panel
<xp:panel id="panel1">
<xp:panel id="panelRendered1"
<xp:this.rendered><![CDATA[#{javascript:
Contr.getItemValueString("txt_tipcontractcv1") == "Vanzare-Cumparare"
}]]></xp:this.rendered>
<xp:label value="Persoane spre informare" ... id="label2" />
... other label and fields ...
</xp:panel>
</xp:panel>
First... never do this:
if (comboVal == "Vanzare-Cumparare")
Even though it's called "SSJS".. it's really not "JavaScript"... you're pretty much working with Java. In Java everything is an object. Even a literal string. So by entering "Vanzare-Cumparare" you're pretty much creating a new Object. You can see this in the typeahead of the SSJS editor. Try typing "anything". <-- Note you NEED to type in that period.
The way to do that if statement is:
if ("Vanzare-Cumparare".equalsIgnoreCase(comboVal)
you could reverse it I think:
if (comboVal.equalsIgnoreCase("Vanzare-Cumparare")
Should give you the same result. I think sometimes you can get away with using the == but mostly likely it's going to bite you at some point no matter what. So I recommend never doing that.
I'm not sure I'm following your approach here. I guess it makes some sense but if it were me I'd do it differently. I know that personally I've NEVER tried to grab the component in SSJS like this: var combo:javax.faces.component.UIComponent - I've never seen the need.
I'd prefer to use a scoped variable and then in the label's rendering property grab that scoped variable and use that to determine your rendering value - true or false.
I see a real problem. If the component is not currently rendered, you cannot get a handle to it with getComponent. If you simply change the display value, then the component is always there, even if it's not displayed.
Something like this:
var combo:javax.faces.component.UIComponent = getComponent("txt_tipcontractcv1");
var comboVal = combo.getValue();
if (comboVal.equalsIgnoreCase("Vanzare-Cumparare")) {
document.getElementById("#{id:label2}").style.display = "block"; // or "inline"
} else {
document.getElementById("#{id:label2}").style.display = "none";
}
You need to ensure that the label2 element is always rendered, so that the style indicates whether it is visible.
Apologies for the length. I'm having a play with fancy typeahead, and I ran across an issue that I can't explain. I've found a fix, but the fix doesn't make sense, so I'm wondering if anybody can look at my example and explain what is happening, and if it is a bug of some sort? I have stripped out most of the functionality to provide a bare bones example to demonstrate.
The scenario: I've got a text box, with fancy typeahead. Beside that, I have a button to append the newly found value into a second field. I use the second field to drive a repeat control showing all values chosen to date. Code below
The result: To test this, type 'ab' in the field, and select any choice, then click on the 'add' link. The repeat shows (, abcd) as you would expect. Test 2, repeat that process twice. The repeat will show (, abcd, ab, abcd). For some reason, the 'ab' is being added into the second field. The third test - type ab, choose a choice, add. Type 'bc', choose a choice, add. Type cd, but instead of choosing a choice, click the save button. The repeat then shows (, abcd, bc, abce, cd). I can't explain that at all.
The workaround: To get this to work properly, I can change the link's refresh type from partial to full. I have no idea why this makes it work, but it does. I don't know if I really want to do that, but I will if I have to. This is on a fairly complex form and I'd rather not do a full refresh unless I have to.
The code: Here's a cut-down xpage that demonstrates the problem:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xp:view xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core" xmlns:xc="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/custom">
<xp:this.data>
<xp:dominoDocument var="document1" formName="Test">
</xp:dominoDocument>
</xp:this.data>
<xp:panel id="mainPanel">
<xp:button value="Save" id="button1">
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="true"
refreshMode="complete">
<xp:this.action>
<xp:saveDocument var="document1"></xp:saveDocument>
</xp:this.action>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:button>
<xp:inputText id="objName1" value="#{document1.objName}">
<xp:typeAhead mode="full" minChars="2" valueMarkup="true"
var="searchValue" id="typeAhead1">
<xp:this.valueList><![CDATA[#{javascript: //In here I usually do some searching to find a result set, but for the purposes of a test, let's just do an array
var mapResults:java.util.TreeMap = new java.util.TreeMap();
mapResults.put("abcd", "abcd");
mapResults.put("abce", "abce");
mapResults.put("abcf", "abcf");
mapResults.put("abcg", "abcg");
mapResults.put("abch", "abch");
mapResults.put("abci", "abci");
//Now format the results
var returnList = "<ul>";
//All results are in the TreeMap and are sorted. Now add them to the output
var iter:Iterator = mapResults.entrySet().iterator();
while (iter.hasNext()) {
var nextEntry = iter.next();
returnList += "<li>" + nextEntry.getValue() +"</li>";
}
//Lastly, close off the UL tag and return
returnList += "</ul>";
return returnList;}]]></xp:this.valueList>
</xp:typeAhead>
</xp:inputText>
<xp:link escape="true" text="Add Another Object" id="link1">
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="true"
refreshMode="partial" id="eventHandler1" refreshId="mainPanel">
<xp:this.action><![CDATA[#{javascript:var currentVals = document1.getItemValueArray("addObjName");
//check for null value in first item in array - happens
//if we clear the array from the 'cross' buttons in the repeat
if (currentVals[0] == null) {
currentVals = new Array("");
}
//get the value from the object name field and whack it on the end
var newValue = getComponent("objName1").getValue();
//Put the value into a test field so we can prove that the value wasn't added below
document1.replaceItemValue("test1", newValue);
//Now add it to the field - where is the search text coming from?
currentVals.push(newValue);
document1.replaceItemValue("addObjName", currentVals);
getComponent("objName1").setValue("");
}]]></xp:this.action>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:link>
<xp:repeat id="repeat1" rows="30" var="rowData" indexVar="index"
repeatControls="false">
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:document1.getItemValueArray("addObjName")}]]></xp:this.value>
<xp:panel tagName="div">
<xp:link escape="true" id="link2" title="Remove from list">
<xp:image url="/vwicn081.gif" id="image1">
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="true"
refreshMode="partial" refreshId="mainPanel" id="eventHandler2">
<xp:this.action><![CDATA[#{javascript://remove an entry (string) from a list of strings (thanks to Mark Leusink)
Array.prototype.removeEntry = function( entry:String ) {
if ( #IsNotMember(entry, this)) {
return this;
}
var res = #Trim( #Replace(this, entry, "") );
return (typeof res == "string" ? (res.length==0 ? [] : [res]) : res);
}
var oldArray:Array = document1.getItemValueArray("addObjName");
var myArray = oldArray.removeEntry(oldArray[index]);
document1.replaceItemValue("addObjName", myArray);
}]]></xp:this.action>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:image>
</xp:link>
<xp:text escape="true" id="computedField1" value="#{javascript:rowData}">
</xp:text>
</xp:panel>
</xp:repeat>
<xp:text escape="true" id="computedField2">
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:"and here is what was added in the link:"}]]></xp:this.value>
</xp:text>
<xp:text escape="true" id="computedField3" value="#{document1.test1}">
</xp:text>
</xp:panel>
</xp:view>
Any takers? Is there a logical explanation for this, or should I just use my work-around and stop being a pedant?
UPDATE
Using the XPage above, I can also replicate the following scenario:
Step 1: Type 'abc' in the field, select 'abcd from the choices, click on the 'add' link. All good.
Step 2: Type 'ab' then wait, then type 'c', then choose 'abce'. Add again. This adds ab, abc, abce.
Step 3: Type ab then wait, then type c, then don't choose a choice, but hit Save instead. This adds ab, abc - even though the link has not been clicked to add the value to the second field.
Step 4: Type ab, wait, type c, choose 'abcf' and click Add. Only abcf is added this time.
I'm trying to reconcile this against Sven's answer below. Partial update works, so I know he's right. In step 2 above, I'm thinking that the typeahead code is executing twice, each time triggering the onClick event for the link, and lastly the onClick event for the link is running. Similar thing in Step 3 - the link isn't being clicked at all in that example, but the onClick code is still running. In step 4, after the save, typeahead is executing twice, but this time it isn't executing the onClick code.
Now I think I get it, even if I don't like it. As Sven says, The $$xspsubmitid identifies the element which submitted the data to the server - in the last submit action. So in this case it remembers the previous submit state and repeats that - so when you are doing it immediately after a plain save, you don't get any extra code, but when you are doing it after an event in the link, it submits the page in the same way that the link did - complete with onClick code.
There's probably a reason why doing this is a good thing, but my head hurts and the problem is solved! Thanks Sven!
It is your typeahead which updates the value of your field / your array. When typing a second or more characters in the input box, the current data in your input box is sent to the server and this updates the value in the document. When clicking onto the link, the value is added again.
EDIT:
You can fix this by changing the mode of the typeahead to "partial"
EDIT 2:
The difference between the refresh modes of a typeahed is how the data are sent to the server: In case of a full refresh, the data are sent with a POST request, in case of a partial refresh, the data are sent as a GET request.
Let's have a look at the different HTTP requests:
1.) Partial mode
2.) Full mode
As you can see in the two picutrures, in full mode there are more "fields" sent to the server. The interessting one is the $$xspsubmitid: Currently it is empty. But as soon we click the link, the field is filled with the id of the link:
The $$xspsubmitid identifies the element which submitted the data to the server. In this case the link, and the server processes the code of the link.
And now comes the problem with the typeahead in full mode:
As you can see, the $$xspsubmitid is always added to the POST request, and that's why the server executes the click event of the link for each typeahead request.
I've got a checkBoxGroup that can expand to 20 items or so, as users pick which fields from a view that they want to export to a spreadsheet. I'm curious how I might control the display of those 20 checkboxes (dynamically determined) to be in more than one row or even to display in a column instead.
<xp:checkBoxGroup id="fieldChoicesBox">
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="false" id="eventHandler2">
<xp:this.script>
<![CDATA[var x= '#{javascript:getClientId("fieldChoicesBox")}';
var y= '#{javascript:getClientId("fieldChoicesBoxList")}';
copyRadioChoices(x,y)]]>
</xp:this.script>
</xp:eventHandler>
<xp:selectItems>
<xp:this.value>
<![CDATA[#{javascript: var viewName=#UpperCase(getComponent("viewChoice").getValue());
var tmp = #DbLookup(#DbName(),"dbprofile",viewName,"Value");
#If(#IsError(tmp),"None",tmp)}]]>
</xp:this.value>
</xp:selectItems>
</xp:checkBoxGroup>
This is all built off code I originally got from Russ Maher (see http://xpagetips.blogspot.com/2012/06/extending-your-xpages-applications-with.html) so any brilliance is attributable to him, while all mistakes are mine.
Alternatively, if you have an idea for how to pick fields or columns to display in the export that works more easily or elegantly, I'd be thrilled to hear it.
If your using or can use the ExtLib I'd use the valuePicker control, lets you select multiple values from the one control ( hold down ctrl while choosing ). Heres an example:
<xp:inputtext id="example" multipleSeparator=","></xp:inputText>
<xe:valuePicker for="example" pickerText="text">
<xe:this.dataProvider>
<xe:simpleValuePicker valueList="test1, test2, test3, test4"
valueListSeperator=",">
</xe:simpleValuePicker>
</xe:this.dataProvider>
</xe:valuePicker>