I have a basic workflow app, and I am having diffiulty.
In the db ACL, I have all the people and groups involved set to Editor.
In an XPage acl, I am trying to enter a computed value for the name. (a field I have called nextApprover, which is stored on the form/document associated with the xpage.
I've tried
document1.getItemValue("nextApprover");
AND
getComponent("nextApprover").getValue();
both create a runtime error executing the Javascript computed expression.
All I am trying to do is allow the nextApprover the rights to edit the document when it is in their "box" and allow the rest of the users the ability to read it at that particular time. I've looked around for a while now.
Any suggestions?
You can't access the datasource document1 in XPages ACL name calculation because the ACL is first calculated and only later the datasource. That's why you get the JavaScript runtime error.
Here is an alternative to XPages ACL:
Define your datasource document1 with action="openDocument"
<xp:this.data>
<xp:dominoDocument
var="document1"
action="openDocument"
... />
</xp:this.data>
That will open the document by default in READ mode.
Then switch in beforePageLoad event to EDIT mode with context.setDocumentMode("edit") if the current user name is in your field nextApprover:
<xp:this.beforePageLoad><![CDATA[#{javascript:
if (document1.getItemValue("nextApprover").get(0).equals(session.getEffectiveUserName())) {
context.setDocumentMode("edit")
}
}]]></xp:this.beforePageLoad>
You might have to change the if clause depending on what is really in your field nextApprover.
You get better security by using Authors-items on documents instead of XPage ACL.
Try this (if document1 is datasource name):
document1.getValue("nextApprover");
If it does not work with this and you still want to use XPage ACL please post your error and XPage XML source for the ACL part.
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I have an Xpage with access set to public for clients to fill in a form. When I send the client the link to the page and they open it for the first time. Everything runs smoothly. However, if they close the browser and click on the link again they receive this error:
{Unexpected runtime error
The runtime has encountered an unexpected error.
Error source
Page Name:/xpClientForm.xsp
Exception
Could not open the document
Invalid universal id}
I am using a switch facet to cycle between forms depending on the client type.
The domino document id is being stored in a sessionScope beforepageload and the document dynamically computes it based on that sessionScope variable.
Here is the code:
SessionScope assignment on beforepageload
var cData = getClientData(id);
sessionScope.docId = cData.docID;
Document datasource
<xp:panel style="height:100px" id="pnlDocData">
<xp:this.data>
<xp:dominoDocument var="document1"
formName="frmA" action="editDocument"
documentId="#{javascript:sessionScope.docID;}" scope="request">
</xp:this.data>
</xp:panel>
However when i execute this custom control on a page that does not have public access. It runs fine with no issues irrespective of how many times i open the link.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
You need to set ignoreRequestParams="true" on the dominoDocument datasource. Otherwise it's using the document ID in the URL or trying to create a new document, which the user probably doesn't have access to do.
Computing the document ID is the less common scenario, which is using the URL for document location is the default.
I have an Xpage with multiple custom controls that make up a form. When I click the submit button I get a multiple documents saving the multiple custom control data as a separate document.
I have the data sources configured at the custom control level.
How can I make it that all the custom control save the data to one single document?
Thanks,
Just put them on the XPage. If you use a variable name (e.g. for a datasource, a dataContext etc), the runtime will just look outwards from the current component in the hierarchy to find the relevant object. If you're having problems thinking of the XML source code in a three-dimensional way, the Outline view is good for this.
So from within a Custom Control, you can reference a datasource on the XPage, as long as it is defined in an ancestor of the custom control on the XPage or is a previous sibling. So in the structure below, document1 will be accessible from anywhere in the ccFriends custom control.
<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="Profile">
</xp:dominoDocument>
</xp:this.data>
<xc:ccFriendsAlt></xc:ccFriendsAlt>
You can also pass the data source object as a custom property to the custom control if you can't follow Paul's suggestion of keeping the same variable name for your data source.
http://lpar.ath0.com/2013/04/22/passing-document-data-objects-to-xpages-custom-controls/
I'm passing a doc datasource into a Custom Control using a property defintion named docDatasource and set to a datatype com.ibm.xsp.model.domino.DominoDocumentData. Just by chance I stumbled upon an editor type named "Datasource Picker". Sounded promising, so I set it to use for m prop definition.
Upon binding the CC into my Xpage - where my doc DS is defined - I indeed can use the picker to choose my datasource ,just as I had expected. But then building the Xpage code I receive an error saying
The value of the property docDatasource cannot be primitive.
So obviously the datatype and the editor don't go along well. There's no harm done really, but I'm curious to learn what else this editor could be used for.
What to do with name of the data source passed to custom control parameter: retrieve its object by simple binding #{requestScope[compositeData.docDatasource]}.
That will return your data source and you can use this binding where needed. Or store it inside local variable and use it instead.
I dont know where you went wrong.
Here is xpage source:
<xp:this.data>
<xp:dominoDocument var="document1" formName="asdf" action="openDocument" documentId="08f6"/>
</xp:this.data>
<xc:doccc dds="#{javascript:document1}"/>
and custom control:
<xp:label id="label1">
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:compositeData.dds.getItemValueString("fl_name");}]]></xp:this.value>
</xp:label>
with custom control property named dds, type com.ibm.xsp.model.domino.DominoDocumentData and editor DataSourcePicker.
I like to create an XPage which have the same usability in the save behavior like a notes document, special I like to realize the SaveOptions behavior 'When the User change something, the system remember him to save and if the user save, the system to not remember him'.
I found out a 50% solution, over the data->enableModifiedFlag property the system recognized if the user change something in the document and if so post the string that is stored in the data->ModifiedMessage property.
<xp:view xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core" enableModifiedFlag="true">
<xp:this.modifiedMessage><![CDATA["please Save"]]></xp:this.modifiedMessage>
</xp:view>
But if I save the Document in the datasource and like to leave the site, the post still occur.
How could I realize that when the XPages-Doc is different to the dataSourceDoc the post occur, and if the XPages-Doc is equal to the dataSourceDoc, the Post not occur?
enableModifiedFlag allows you to refine the functionality.
Custom Controls also have an enableModifiedFlag, which should allow you to give a message only if something in that custom control has changed.
Individual input controls have a disableModifiedFlag that can be set to true, to ensure that particular control is ignored when identifying if the page has been modified or not.
A Button of type "Cancel" will ignore enableModified and just move on.
You can also programmatically set or clear the modified flag in CSJS (XSP._setDirty(false,""). There is also a view.setEnableModifiedFlag(boolean) method that can be used to change the enableModifiedFlag property on an XPage from SSJS.
Panels don't have an enableModifiedFlag or disableModifiedFlag property, but with the options I mentioned it should give you the control you need.
how can I add custom control on the basis of sessionScope variable. I try include page container control but no luck:
<xp:this.afterPageLoad><![CDATA[#{javascript:sessionScope.put("viewName","ccViewAll.xsp");}]]></xp:this.afterPageLoad>
<xp:text escape="true" id="computedField1">
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:sessionScope.get("viewName")}]]></xp:this.value>
</xp:text>
<xc:appLayout>
<xp:this.facets>
<xp:panel xp:key="facetMiddle">
<xp:include id="include1">
<xp:this.pageName><![CDATA[${javascript:sessionScope.get("viewName")}]]>
</xp:this.pageName>
</xp:include>
</xp:panel>
</xp:this.facets>
</xc:appLayout>
The above code give me error Error 404 HTTP Web Server: Item Not Found Exception. But when I hardcode the viewname that is ccViewAll.xsp instead of sessionScope.get("viewName"), its work fine.
-MAK
You can use the dynamic content control or the switchFacet control if you have the ExtLib for XPages. The Teamroom template (demo application that comes with the ExtLib) uses these in the "allDocuments" Xpage or the "allDocsAllTab" custom control, these are good examples to look at.
If you don't have the ExtLib you could use the loaded / rendered property of a custom control to decide which one gets loaded.
e.g.
<xp:panel key="MiddleColumn">
<xc:customControl1 loaded="${javascript: if(viewScope.control == "customControl1")}"></xc:customControl1>
<xc:customControl2 loaded="${javascript: if(viewScope.control == "customControl2")}"></xc:customControl2>
</xp:panel>
loaded = false means that nothing will be done for this control.
rendered = false means that the control will be created but hidden, you can change this later to show it.
use rendered if its going to change for example when a button is clicked and loaded when its decided at start up and won't change while the user is logged in.
If you are using this to show a different view in the domino database based on some other selection that I would suggest looking at the Extension Libraries 'Dynamic View Panel' control.
Using this control means you won't need to create different custom controls for each view that you want to use, just a single page with this control and point it to the correct view to display via a scope variable.
If you need to customize how each view displays you can create a viewControl bean to set additional properties based on the view that it is showing.
Something worth to mention is that if you don't use the ExtLib - If you're using Partial Refresh then you HAVE to use the rendered property, since the loaded property only can be calculated on pageLoad.
From my understanding this means that every custom control will be computed by the server and that's probably not something you want. (Added overhead, for one thing.)
/J