Specific placeholder id in pptx file - ms-office

Does anybody know why this value is used p:ph idx="4294967295"?
As I see it's a specific value for MS PP which changes MS PP behavior. I've read openxml standard, but I haven't found anything information related to this number.
Part of the OOXML scheme below:
<p:sp>
<p:nvSpPr>
<p:cNvPr id="15364" name="Text 4" />
<p:cNvSpPr>
<a:spLocks noGrp="1" />
</p:cNvSpPr>
<p:nvPr>
<p:ph idx="4294967295" />
</p:nvPr>
</p:nvSpPr>
...
</p:sp>

I've investigated and understood how to get this value in PP. For example, you have an inheritance chain: master slide placeholder with idx='1', slide layout placeholder with idx='1', and slide placeholder with idx='1'. if you remove the slide layout's placeholder the inheritance chain between the slide and the slide layout will be broken, but PP still has to inherit properties from parent entities in this case from the master slide, and it marks slide placeholder with idx='4294967295'. It's like a mark. If PP reads this value it inherits properties directly from the master slide, excludes the slide layout and it understands that placeholder which belongs to the slide layout has been removed.
How does it find the required placeholder if the slide placeholder changes from idx='1' to idx='4294967295'? I think MS PP does it by placeholder type, but I am not sure.
This article may be useful Placeholder on master slide

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Browser Based Application on IE a spying issue on blue prism. Element gets off screen and bp can't highlight

I am using citrix vdi to read an element on webpage. It is able to highlight and read the value in open vdi but in close vdi layout of webpage messes up and element i need went out of bound/off screen from webpage. I have tried minimize and maximize before reading value but invain. I also tried html mode and AA still cannot read it. In html mode i kept only path attribute for element, value remains exactly same on close and open vdi. The only difference i have notice is width of div in which element resides. Div width changes in open 1921and close 1203 which i assume push element out of screen bounds. Any help will be appreciated.
When working with Blue Prism don’t rely on initial attribute set. You need to choose as few attributes as possible to uniquely identify element. You should always untick attributes that are empty or it’s value it’s “Self” (for example Element ID attribute tends to have such value which doesn’t mean anything). Generally, attributes connected with elements position on the screen or its size are not helpful, because it may be easily affected.
When working with HTML spy mode your elements don’t need to be visible on screen to interact with them (unless you are using surface automation techniques), HTML elements don’t have any Visible or Screen Visible attributes.
Try to use attributes like:
Tag Name
Class Name
ID
If Value has always particular text, use wildcard type of match: text
Path attribute is not always the best choice as it might change because web page is dynamic or application update mess up the layout. If you won’t be able to identify element any other way, make sure you use Path as Dynamic match type & store it as environmental variable, so it could be easily adjusted if needed.
If you have problems reading value using “Get Current Value”, try “Get HTML Attribute” in Read stage options & try “Value” or “Title” as an Input.

What is the "for identifier" in a formRow good/used for?

The extension library offers means to structure your forms by Form Tables, where you can put Form Layout Columns and Form Layout Rows.
The Form Layout Rows have a property called "for" (the "For Indentifier") - here is the OnHover-text:
"Holds the ID of the control used to edit the data. That control should be contained within this Form Layout Row control."
So, I could enter the id of e.g. an Edit Box control I put into this form row (which translates to the code ' for="inputText1" '). But what exactly is this needed for? Where or for what can this information be used?
I found no different behaviour or limited functionality when sparing this information - at least, not how we use it atm. I found nothing in the web regarding this question; hope anyone can shed some light.
It's useful if your form row contains multiple controls, preventing the form row's code from determining its "for" target automatically. In that situation, you can provide the server-side ID of the "real" target control in the row to keep the label behavior working properly.
It's also mandatory to set this attribute if you want to use the built-in OneUI or Bootstrap themes to have the label formatted correctly. For example the text will be bold only if you set the for attribute (Bootstrap acts like this)

How to add Orchard shape to start of body?

I'm just getting started with Orchard and writing a module for Google Tag Manager which means I need to add a JavaScript snippet at the start of the body tag for every page in our site.
In my FilterProvider OnResultExecuting I've got
var context = _workContextAccessor.GetContext();
var tags = context.Layout.Body;
var snippet = Shape.Snippet();
snippet.ContainerId = containerId;
tags.Add(snippet);
where Shape is the DefaultShapeFactory. I know that Shape.Add has a second argument for position, but I've tried ":before", ".5", "1" with no success. It always gets rendered at the end of the body, using the ThemeMachine theme with no modifications.
If I modify the theme and add a new zone to either the Document or Layout view at the start of the body and then add my shape to that it obviously appears there which is my solution for now, but this means that we'll have to ensure that any theme we build has that zone in the correct place.
How do I add shape in code to the Body and control its position?
This code works:
context.Layout.Body.Items.Insert(0, snippet)
Your code does not work because of
Body shape is created by the CoreShapes class and then Specific Shape
is added to it with default (null) position.
Sorting shapes inside body take place by the FlatPositionComparer
class and null position be converted to "before" position.
So Specific Shape has the highest priority and is the first place in
the list. And nothing could move it.

How do you keep Title Bar tabs active in the Application Layout Control?

I have an application that makes use of the Application Layout Control. The UI has two tabs defined in the Title Bar section. The UI also contains a Navigator control in the sidebar that allows users to select links to open other pages. What I am having troubles with is keeping the current tab set as the active tab when users click on links in the current navigator.
The "configuration" property of the Application Layout Control is a complex type, which in turn supports all the properties that define the layout itself. One of those properties is "navigationPath". If Netflix used this control on their site, the value of that property when viewing the movie information page for Ghostbusters might look something like:
/home/genres/comedies/541018
So this property can be thought of as a way of describing the page's current location in the "site map" using *nix filepath syntax.
Each titleBarTab is also a complex type; one of its properties is "selection". This property is intended to be given a value that matches part or all of the current navigationPath for the overall layout. So, continuing the Netflix example, you might define your tabs like this:
<xe:this.titleBarTabs>
<xe:pageTreeNode
page="/genre.xsp"
label="Action"
queryString="genre=action"
selection="/home/genres/action/*" />
<xe:pageTreeNode
page="/genre.xsp"
label="Comedy"
queryString="genre=comedies"
selection="/home/genres/comedies/*" />
<xe:pageTreeNode
page="/genre.xsp"
label="Drama"
queryString="genre=dramas"
selection="/home/genres/dramas/*" />
</xe:this.titleBarTabs>
On the page for Ghostbusters, then, because navigationPath property for the layout matches the pattern defined for the selection property of the pageTreeNode with a label of "Comedy", that tab will appear selected, but the others will not.
Also perhaps worthy of note is that the layout configuration also includes a property called "defaultNavigationPath". The value of this property will be compared against the selection property of each titleBarTab if the navigationPath property has no value. So you typically want to set this to a path that would cause the first tab to appear selected.
Bruce, if I am reading this right, I ran into a similar problem a while back. Does this help at all? Setting a sessionScope variable for a TitleBar tab

How do you use the Selected property of the navigator?

I've spent days trying to figure this out and I give up.
I am a LotusScript programmer and have been trying to learn XPages. All of the examples and sample programs I've studied only touch on pieces of this.
Can someone explain to me step by step how to use the Selected property of the Extension Library Navigator control?
I have created my own custom control based on the layout control from the Extension Library and created a custom property called navigationPath. I also created a navigator custom control that has 5 Page Link Nodes. In the "Selected" property of each Page Link Node, I put the following SSJS:
if(compositeData.navigationPath == "/Home/ApplicationPool"){
return true
}else{
return false
}
/Home/ApplicationPool corresponds to the value I put in the "Selection" property of the particular Page Link Node.
In each layout custom control, I set the "navigationPath" property to compositeData.navigationPath.
What did I miss?
there is a selected and selection property and they mean very different things and can't be used at the same time. In the code example in your question above you are using the selected property which is the wrong one in this case.
Your treeNodes in the navigator should be setup to use the selection property, this is a RegEx value that is used to see if it matches the value passed into the application layout via the custom property.
<xe:navigator id="navigator1" expandable="true" expandEffect="wipe">
<xe:this.treeNodes>
<xe:pageTreeNode label="nodeName" page="/page.xsp" selection="/Home/ApplicationPool" />
</xe:this.treeNodes>
</xe:navigator>
As you can see you don't need to use any SSJS to evaluate a true/false outcome. Just match the value in the treeNode to the one in the XPage's applicationLayout control.
If your using tabs in the layout titleBar then you can set a selection property there also that uses the format /Home/.* which will make that tab highlighted for every XPage that have /Home/ at the start of it's navigationpath custom property. Don;t forget it is RegEx so any valid RegEx statement can be used here adding more power to this particular property.
For the tree nodes in the navigator control you define the name of the xpage to open and then the related selection. Example:
<xe:pageTreeNode page="/text.xsp" selection="/Home/Test" label="Test page">
</xe:pageTreeNode>
For the individual xpages using the applicationLayout you define a value for navigationPath. If this value matches an entry in one of the tree nodes the naviagor control, then the corresponding menu item will be highlighted in the browser. The best way to define the value of the navigationPath is by using a custom property (as you are using). Here's an example of that:
<xe:applicationLayout id="applicationLayout1">
<xe:this.configuration>
<xe:oneuiApplication navigationPath="${javascript:compositeData.navigationPath}" ...
You can see examples of using all this in the Extension Library Teamroom and Discussion templates.
Based on my explanation on how to use it, I can see that you are not using the selection property on the navigation control correct. You just need to define a unique value for each tree node (which then will be used if it matches navigationPath on the individual xpages).
So for your specific example change your selection property to just return: "/Home/ApplicationPool"

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