Dojo currency text box - How to get value with ssjs - xpages

I'm using a Dojo currency text box and want to check with ssjs, if the box is empty or not.
Currently I'm using this:
if (wfDoc.getItemValueString("InvestmentAmount") == "")
But this code always tells me, that the box is empty, even if I have entered a value. So how can I check if the field is empty with ssjs?

Dojo Currency Text Box stores the value as a number, as does the Dojo Number Text Box. The Dojo Extension Library controls are based on the corresponding client-side Dojo dijits. Because they're all just HTML widgets extending the Dojo Validation Text Box, they have the "Text" in the control name. Remember Dojo is a web-based client-side Javascript framework, so it can only deal with text values. But because they're integrated into XPages which has server-side functionality, the Dojo Currency Text Box and Dojo Number Text Box convert the value to the correct back-end datatype, so a number.
Doing getItemValueString() on a number field returns an empty string. So Per is correct for using getValue().

I ran a short test this should work.
<xe:djCurrencyTextBox
id="djCurrencyTextBox1"
value="#{document1.test}">
</xe:djCurrencyTextBox>
<xp:button
value="test"
id="button1">
<xp:eventHandler
event="onclick"
submit="true"
refreshMode="complete">
<xp:this.action><![CDATA[#{javascript:view.postScript("window.alert('Test"+java.lang.String.valueOf(document1.getValue('test')==null)+"');");}]]></xp:this.action>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:button>

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Xpages typeahead in dialog does not work unless onChange triggered first

UPDATED at bottom...
I have a custom control that contains an input field with typeAhead enabled:
<xp:inputText id="UTAN1" value="#{document1.UTAN}"
maxlength="5" styleClass="dbListFieldData" style="width:60px;font-size:13px;">
<xp:typeAhead mode="full" minChars="2">
<xp:this.valueList><![CDATA[#{javascript:var key = getComponent("UTAN1").getValue();
var path = new Array("","utans.nsf")
#Unique(#DbLookup(path,"(UTAN Lookup)",key,1,"[PARTIALMATCH]"));}]]></xp:this.valueList>
</xp:typeAhead>
<xp:eventHandler event="onchange" submit="true"
refreshMode="partial" refreshId="utanPanel1">
<xp:this.action>
<!-- DO SOME STUFF -->
</xp:this.action>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:inputText>
If I use the control inline on an xpage, typeAhead works fine.
However, if I insert the control in a dialog and call it to open:
<xp:link escape="true" id="link3" styleClass="dbListFieldData" >
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="false" id="eventHandler3">
<xp:this.script><![CDATA[XSP.openDialog('#{id:miniDialogUTAN1}');]]></xp:this.script>
</xp:eventHandler>
<xp:image id="image2" url="/edit2.png" style="height:16px;width:16px;" alt="Edit UTAN"></xp:image>
</xp:link>
The typeAhead seems to be partly crippled.
If the field is already empty, suggestions comes up fine.
If the field has an existing value, backspacing only shows the existing value as a suggestion.
Overwriting the value entirely gives no suggestions at all.
The only thing that will get the typeAhead working is to change the value and hit Enter. Basically, trigger an onChange. After that, ALL the typeAhead fields start working.
Any ideas on how to correct this behavior? FYI, I'm an xpages noob, so please go easy on me.
UPDATE 6/29/2021:
I'm still desperately in need of help with this. I've been playing around with Firebug and found something interesting.
In type-aheads on a normal Xpage form (where type-ahead works), entering each character calls a POST every time. However, when the type-ahead is in a dialog, typing in characters calls GETs. If I hit Enter or tab out of the field (triggering onChange), I get a single POST, and then clicking back into the field and typing, it starts using GETs again and it pulls valid suggestions as long as I don't backspace and type something different. Then the suggestions go away. This would be expected since GETs are cached and POSTs are not.
So what's going on with type-aheads in dialogs that makes them use GET, and how to I force it to use POST on every key press?
To people of the future...
After weeks of fretting over this and finally giving up I stumbled upon the solution by accident.
My dialog opens in read mode. I have both an Edit button and a Cancel button at top and bottom that were originally hard coded in both spots of the dialog custom control. Later I went to clean some stuff up and decided to create a single custom control for both sets of buttons. Once I did that, suddenly the type-aheads worked!
It turns out that when I copied and pasted the XML from the (supposedly) duplicate button panels to the new custom control, I had copied from the bottom button panel (which I rarely used while testing).
When I compared the XML for the top and bottom Edit Buttons, I found that the top one had the following attributes in the onClick:
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="true" refreshMode="complete">
while the bottom one had:
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="true" refreshMode="partial" refreshId="dialogOuterPanel1">
So, the full refresh broke my type-aheads and a partial refresh fixed them.

Only Allow TypeAhead Values in InputText Field

I'm trying to figure out how to limit a user to TypeAhead values in an InputText field. One thought I had is to run logic onblur that would check the value in the field against acceptable values. My inputText and typeAhead code is below:
<xp:inputText id="TypeAhead">
<xp:typeAhead mode="partial" minChars="2" ignoreCase="true">
<xp:this.valueList>
<![CDATA[#{javascript:db = new Array(#DbName()[0], 'names.nsf');
return #DbColumn(db, "($VIMPeople)", 1)}]]>
</xp:this.valueList>
</xp:typeAhead>
</xp:inputText>
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Have you tried a dojo FilteringSelect? It's like a combination of a combo box and a type ahead edit box. ExtLib comes with an Xpages version of it.
In case you're not familiar with that you might want to take a look here:
https://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.10/dijit/form/FilteringSelect.html#dijit-form-filteringselect

xpages application layout control html label

I need to customize the output produced by the standard application layout control such as adding HTML code to the label (e.g. to specify fa icons that nest the label):
<xe:this.configuration>
<xe:simpleResponsiveConfiguration>
<xe:this.navbarUtilityLinks>
<xe:basicLeafNode>
<xe:this.label><![CDATA[<i class="fa fa-bell">Notification(s)</i>]]></xe:this.label>
</xe:basicLeafNode>
</xe:this.navbarUtilityLinks>
</xe:simpleResponsiveConfiguration>
</xe:this.configuration>
</xe:applicationLayout>
Unfortunate, the output displayed is not escaped and the result is
<i class="fa fa-bell">Notification(s)</i>
instead of
Notification(s).
Is there any way to set escape="false" /"true" for the options label in an application layout control?
The tree nodes are a bit limited in this respect. They weren't designed to be able to add additional html inside the rendered output. You've tried to hack it in there using the label property, but that will always be escaped.
Steve's suggestion to set fa fa-bell as the styleClass of the node itself works, sort of. It would display the icon and text, but it messes up the font style of the label text. And if you change the font of the label, it messes up the icon, as they are all part of the same DOM element.
However, in the ToDo sample application (that is now part of the ExtLib release), there is an example of doing what you want using jQuery, in the simpleLayout custom control. It adds the icons during the onClientLoad event of the XPage. If you re-work that code, you could use it to do what you want:
<xp:eventHandler event="onClientLoad" submit="false">
<xp:this.script><![CDATA[
$(".applayout-utility-links li:nth-child(1) a").prepend("<i class='fa fa-bell' style='margin-right:5px'></i>")]]>
</xp:this.script>
</xp:eventHandler>

Partial update dynamic view on CustomControl | XPages

I have an application with one XPage. It has these custom controls(cc):
ccHeader
ccMenu
ccContent
ccFooter
Custom control ccContent has a combobox, with list of Views in sessionScope and dynamic view panel from extension library for XPages. This combobox has an event OnChange defined to partial update dynamic view.
What do I need?: Combobox with view list will be deleted and after that I need to assign this partial update function to five links, which are located on ccMenu custom control. So, i click on link in ccMenu, it returns some view name, assigns it to dynamic view and makes partial update.
How to get id of this dynamic view in ccMenu to call partial update?
Assuming what you mean is that you want to have a clean way to let the buttons know which area to partial-refresh when changed:
You could add a property to the ccMenu control along the lines of "viewRefreshId" and pass in the ID of the area to refresh, so you'd end up with a button like this:
<xp:button id="viewChanger1" value="View 1">
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="true" refreshMode="partial" refreshId="${compositeData.viewRefreshId}">
<xp:this.action><![CDATA[#{javascript: viewScope.selectedView = 'View 1' }]]></xp:this.action>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:button>
Now, there's a question of whether you should try to pass in an ID from something contained within another CC from the main XPage, and I try to avoid that - it would PROBABLY work, but it's a bit messy. I tend to architect similar things so that the part to be refreshed is directly on the XPage (which is to say, I don't use "content" custom controls), so I end up with something like this:
<xc:viewSelector viewRefreshId="dynamicViewContainer"/>
<xp:div id="dynamicViewContainer">
<xe:dynamicView>
<xe:this.data>
<xp:dominoView var="view1" viewName="#{viewScope.selectedView}"/>
</xe:this.data>
</xe:dynamicView>
</xp:div>
The extra container div comes from experience that I had a while ago where refreshing the dynamic view directly caused rendering problems, but I don't know if that's still the case (or if I had run into some other problem).

Dynamic Table from Lotus Notes to XPages within a form

I am taking an existing Lotus Notes database and converting to Xpages. There is one of those tables containing 3 multi-value fields, with New Line as the seperator and the "Add New", "Modify" and "Delete" buttons controlling how the data is entered and removed. The customer would like the XPage to look as similar to the Notes GUI as possible, and I was thinking I would use the dijit dialog box to do the add new line and figure out the delete and modify. But from what I can tell, the dialog box can only be used on client-side and the data input into the dialog box can't be brought down onto the Xpage. Is this true? I was thinking I would use an editable field within a repeat, but I also couldn't that working properly.
Basically, it the solution has to show the multi-value fields for past documents and also be able to allow users to edit those older document...plus work similar/exactly the way as in the past when creating new docs.
Thanks in advance for any help I can get on this as it seems a ton easier than I am probably making it out to be.
I just wanted to update after the solution below, which appears to be an excellent way to solve this problem. However, as an admitted XPages novice, I am really struggling with the application of this concept. This is what I have, and it obviously isn't working.
Logically, this sounds like a great solution. However, I am no xpages expert and I simply can't get this working properly even to get started. Anything at all that would make this easier for me to even get started would be a big help. I'm not one to usually look for "the answer"...I'm just having difficulty getting a handle on this Multi-value field table issue. Thanks again in advance...here's what I wrote that is coming up with a 500 error. "A" is the multi-value field name.
<xp:table>
<xp:tr>
<xp:td>
<xp:repeat id="repeat1" rows="30" var="rowdata">
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:document1.getItemValue("A")}]]></xp:this.value>
<xp:tr id="valueRow">
<xp:td>
<xp:text
value="#{javascript: return rowdata[i]}" />
</xp:td>
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="false"
refreshMode="partial" execMode="partial" execId="valueRow"
immediate="true">
<xp:this.action>
<![CDATA[#{javascript:document1.getItemValue("A")}]]>
</xp:this.action>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:tr>
</xp:repeat>
</xp:td>
</xp:tr>
</xp:table>
I would say do the following
Create a repeat control which will extract the data from the multi value fields and print them read only. The repeat control will generate a tr structure with a event handler bound to it on the onclick event. something like this:
2 In the onclick event change the style of the tr clientside (using dojo) so people know they selected that row and set the id / identifier of that row in a scoped var
3 Above the repeat control add controls like add, remove, update. The add and update will open a dialog box and will read the data from the selected row ( or none if its a add action). The delete control will remove the data from the multiline value fields, save the document and refres the repeat control.
This should work.

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