I have a repeat control using a view as the datasource with a custom control within the repeat. The custom control is made up of a panel with two tables. One table has computed fields with an Edit button and the other has editable fields with a Save and Cancel button. The Edit and Cancel buttons work as needed, but the Save button gives a NotesDocument.save() is null error. I have already narrowed the issue down to the error occurring on the edoc.save() line by commenting out all prior lines. I even tried to do an edoc.lock(), but got the same error.
var edoc:NotesDocument = database.getDocumentByUNID(viewScope.get('docid'));
edoc.replaceItemValue('Ext_1',viewScope.get('ext_1'));
edoc.replaceItemValue('DID',viewScope.get('did'));
edoc.replaceItemValue('Mobile',viewScope.get('mobile'));
try {
edoc.save();
} catch(e) {
print(e.toString());
}
The storage of a DocID in the viewScope and a repeat control doesn't seem right. You want to add a custom property to your custom control called DocID and then instead of
database.getDocumentByUNID(viewScope.get("docid"));
You do:
database.getDocumentByUNID(compositeData.DocID);
This was you can be sure that you get the document that was in that view for that row.
What you also might consider, instead of all the manual steps (the ones you commented out) have a panel with a DocumentDataSource and then simply bind your input fields to that one. Handover of id via custom property and "IgnoreRequestParameter = true
Then you simply do a rowDoc.save() (presuming you named the datasource rowDoc) and you don't need to recycle anything. Let us know how it goes.
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How can I disable editing of the sublist using Suitescript user event (before load) in netsuite?
I also need to disable the inline editing.
Thank you.
You don't really need to disable editing before load, because no one can interact with sub-lists at this point. Sub-lists are like linked to the main record which means they load as the main record object loads, so the best way to prevent them from being edited is on the DOM.. which means making a form script or client-script (form preferably).
-If you know which form is used by the record go to it, else go to the record and look for "customize form" on the upper-right menu on the blue area.
-Then click on custom code.
-Add a script for "Validate Line Function" to prevent that line from being edited.
-Use the NetSuite example as a base, to prevent the line from editing you just have to return false.
function sampleValidateLine(type)
{
if ( (nlapiGetCurrentLineItemValue('item', 'custcol_service_item') == true) &&
(!nlapiGetCurrentLineItemText('item', 'custcol_service_rep')) )
{
alert("You must choose a Service Rep for this service item.");
return false;
}
return true;
}
Ideally in NetSuite you would restrict this based on permissions. For custom records, you can disable inline editing, and you can disable child record editing. The help documentation has this to say about it:
Check the Allow Child Record Editing box to allow records of this type
to be edited directly when they display as child records in a sublist
on a parent record.
https://system.netsuite.com/app/help/helpcenter.nl?topic=CARD_-29 see item 14.
You can also use form object to achieve the same. See sample code below:-
var form = scriptContext.form;
var serviceItemColumn = form.getSublist({id: 'timeitem'}).getField({id: 'item'});
serviceItemColumn.updateDisplayType({ displayType : 'disabled' })
I know it is a very simple question , but I'm trying to see the difference between a view panel ( that I drag from the Container Controls ) and an embedded view.
How can I add an embedded view on my xpages?
Or the 2 items are one and the same.
The reason why I'm asking this question: I have a view panel on my xpage ( I thought it is like an embedded view in clasic lotus notes programming ) where I have listing some docs. The first column is categorized based on the UNID document.
I noticed if I compose again another document, this view contains all the previous docs., and all the UNID categorized. The view panel isn't empty.
In lotus notes programming:
If I have a main form and a computed text field with #Text(#DocumentUniqueId) and some button for composing another form ( of course, when clicking the button I saved the main form to obtain the UNID ), and this form has the same text field name as the previous - I'm passing the UNID to this second form. If the main form contains an embedded view listing all documents saved from the second form I will use the first column categorized and hidden with the name of the field from the second form ( which will contain the UNID ). If I save and close the 1st main, and then I'll compose another main form, the embedded view is not listing the previous documents already saved.
Well, this view is already created.
I did drag and drop this view in myxpage. I have a button inside myxpage that shows a dialog. Here a datasource is declared, the dialog containing some fields. In the main xpage ( where is defined another datasource ) there is a computed field which takes the UNID of the document. Before I click the dialog I save the first datasource, to pass the value UNID to other field inside the dialog.
I save the datasource from the dialog & close the dialog, and then the view panel ( which is the view from the lotus notes classic presented above ) lists the doc. If I close the main xpage ( save it if is a new one ) and then open another main document, the view isn't empty, it contains the previous document lists. ( I tried also to hide it, if the xspDoc is new. But when I try adding other docs. from the dialog, the view panel lists also the previous documents from the previous doc., even if the UNIDs are distinct )
Thanks in advance.
To explain this best, it's good to consider what a view and an embedded view in Notes Client is. A view determines the look and feel, like a View Panel and by default will show all documents found by the selection criteria. So in this case the documents available correspond to a dominoView datasource bound to the underlying view with no additional criteria defined.
An embedded view still uses the view to determine the look and feel, but will not display the first column (that's effectively a property of the embedded view "control" in Notes Client). In the View Panel you choose which columns display, so you would need to code that yourself on the View Panel, where you choose which columns to display. The embedded view also has a property to define the single category. But the View Panel and other repeating containers (like Data Table and repeat control) don't restrict the data available, that's done by the datasource - a dominoView or e.g. a ViewEntryCollection for anything other than the View Panel. So in that you set the filter.
However, a new document does not have a UNID, so it cannot restrict what is displayed. Instead, I think a good approach is to set the visibility so the View Panel is only displayed if it's not a new document. You can use loaded, if you fully reload the page after save, or else rendered.
First off, this is not a stupid question.
I am assuming you are using a self implemented parent response system and have a view sorted by the parent UNID. Under the data source of the view panel, find the the "filter by category name" option. there compute the UNID value, or category value you are searching for.
Steps:
insure that the background view is categorized (ascending order is best to insure that this works, though I doubt it is needed)
drag (my favourite is the dynamicViewPanel) a view control onto the xpage.
Under Properties/Data there is a place to calculate the value of the category to show. If you want an exact match, check the exact match check box.
If you mistype the category value or the value is not there, then no documents will be shown.
if you put in an empty value all documents are shown (at least in the tests that I can remember)
if documents are returned, the categorized column is automatically hidden.
EDIT
If you are reading the value from a field, you can use the code:
xspDoc.getItemValueString("fld");
If you are searching based on the UNID, again, hide the viewPanel if the document is new. If the value is not yet set, also hide the panel.
If you have two custom controls, even if a custom control is embedded in the second, you cannot easily have one custom control access the values of the datasource in another. I am sure there are ways to trick this into working, but in this case, use a viewScope variable to access the values and possibly an onLoad, onChange or onSave event to update the viewScope variable. Make sure to verify that the result is not null or empty by either printing it out to the server log or another field.
Final Edit after question edit/expansion
These are the steps that I would take to do what you described.
You have your parent document XPage. Insert all fields for this Xpage.
Drag a dynamicViewPanel onto the XPage. If parentDoc is New, then hide.(this could be a custom control in theory, but if you are having trouble, try it without for the sake of trouble shooting.
Set dynamicViewPanel datasource to ignoreReqeustParams.
Calculate the datasource and setting the "Filter by category name" filter. When computing this, for the sake of ease and troubleshooting, print this value out to the server, or other logging mechanism. You can delete it later.
Verify that the correct UNID/Value is being inserted into the document you create in the dialog.
If you are using a scoped variable to hold the filter value, be sure you are using viewScope and not appliationScope or sessionScope.
if you are using a custom control and standard parameters (not scopedVars), verify that the compositeData variable is being updated with a log or server print.
Consider setting Dialog Properties/AllProperties/basics/refreshOnShow to true
Play with the partial refresh option for the dialogOpen action, test a full vs partial refresh.
Remember to set the ignoreRequestParams for the document you are creating in the dialog to true
Consider making the new document data source created in the Dialog to request scope.
And of course consider and test all datasources being defined on the XPage on not some here, some there.
Verify that you are taking the value of the UNID from the main document and not the new dialog document by mistake!
Those are all of the tips I can think of right now, pretty much in the order I'd try them in. If that does not help, then I suspect there is a piece of this puzzle that you are not including in the question. Remember, try to keep things as simple as you can. You can over think things, make things harder than they need be.
I have a tabbed panel containing different sections of a form. In one section, users are given the ability to add a child document to the currently open document. In a second section, they are given a listbox, where the options are dynamically generated (via #DbLookup) by looking at a view of all the child documents, filtered by the current document's ID. This functionality all works correctly, however, there is a problem with the dynamic listbox options.
When a user adds a new child document, then switches to the next tab, the listbox is not updated with this new document. If they save/re-edit the main document or refresh the page, it makes no different, the user must load another XPage before going back to the original in order for the listbox to update. I have tried to resolve this by doing full updates of the page, using session.evaluate and "NoCache" in the #DBLookup call, or calling database.getView("My view").refresh(), but without luck.
There is also a similar problem where I have a repeat control which uses a view of child documents (again filtered by main document ID) as a datasource. When a user adds a child document using a button, it partially refreshes the repeat - but doesn't show the new child document until the page is refreshed again (or you leave the page and return).
Is there something crucial I am missing with regards to the JSF lifecycle/the way that view data is cached?
As first measure I would add another formula item to the listbox which simply returns the current time (#Now() should work). That way you can check if the listbox options are refreshed on the update in the first place.
If the options are refreshed fine it's indeed clear that the #DbLookup does some caching, although I'm not aware of any default caching logic.
At least for a test I would change the code to use a NotesView object instead of the #DbLookup, something like this:
var nview = database.getView("someview");
var nc = nview.getAllEntriesByKey(currentDocument.getDocument().getUniversalID(), true);
var a = [];
var ve = nc.getFirstEntry();
while (ve) {
a.push(ve.getColumnValues().elementAt(0)); // value of first column
ve = nc.getNextEntry(ve);
}
return a;
(I wrote the code from memory, there may be syntax errors).
Since the code only works with view entries it should be equally fast than the #DbLookup. And you could even do a nview.refresh() if needed.
I am struggling with the following.
On my XPage I have a viewpanel component, but it is not bound to a notesview datasource, but to a hashmap stored in viewScope. Reasons for this is beyond scope of my question.
Since the lines in my view are not actually linked to the documents I cannot use the standard checkboxes and the related getSelectedDocIds. I do however want a way to remove the selected documents. I have a column with checkboxes containing the unid of the corresponding row.
So long story short. I have an array of unids and want to perform an action that does the following:
Display a dijit.Dialog asking for confirmation
If OK clicked call a function that does the following:
Remove the documents based on the unids
Refresh the viewpanel
I am thinking of the following 2 solutions, but in doubt what would be best (maybe a third, even simpler solution?)
Have the OK button of the dojo dialog call a function that does an XmlHttpRequest to an XAgent or plain old LS agent
Have the OK button trigger an eventhandler that runs on the server as described by JeremyHodge here. But how would I pass the unids as parameter and refresh the view afterwards?
Thanks!
Cant you just make use of the extension library dialog with the dialog button control. In this button control you can then
A third option would be to add a column to your datatable/view which contains checkboxes. On the onchange event of these boxes you add an eventhander which adds the value to a viewScope variable.
A button on the bottom (or top.) of the page you add the code you need to remove the selected items from the hashmap, delete the documents associate with the selected id's. this button can be a ordinary button with a partial refresh on the viewpanel. When you run into the bug that you cant use buttons in a dialog please use the extension library dialog control because this fixes that issue for you.
If the current user does not have the correct access level to delete documents you could use the sessionAsSigner global (assuming the signer of the design element has the correct access levels).
This way you dont need to go call an xAgent by xmlthttprequest and can stay with the default xpage methodology.
I hope this helps in some way
I would second #jjbsomhorst in the use of the extension library for the dialog box - if you use one at all. Usually users don't read dialog boxes. So the approach would be add the column with the checkboxes, but don't bother with an event handler, but bind them ALL with their value to ONE scopeVariable. On submission that variable will then hold an array with the selected UNID.
Then render a page that lists these documents and have a confirm button. While the new page affords a server round-trip the likelihood, that users actually pay attention is way higher. What you can do:
Have the normal page that renders the dialog with editable checkboxes and when the user clicks "Delete" you set something like viewScope.confirmDeleteMode=true; and use that as condition for the checkboxes and make them read-only AND set the class of the selected rows to "morituri" which in your CSS would have something like .morituri { color: white; background-color : red; font-weight: bold } and a new button "Confirm Delete" (and hide the Delete button).
This way you only have one page to deal with.
I went for option 2, which has the possibility to provide the partial refresh id. I passed the unids as a submitvalue like:
function doRemove(unids){
XSP.executeOnServer(ISP.UI.removeEventID, ISP.UI.removeRefreshID, {
params: {
'$$xspsubmitvalue': unids
},
onComplete : function() {
//alert('test')
}
});
}
The ISP.UI.removeEventID performs the following code:
var unids = context.getSubmittedValue();
removeDocuments(unids); //SSJS function performing the actual delete
viewScope.reload = 'reload' //triggers the hashmap to be rebuild based on new documentcollection
I have a custom control with a field where the user will enter a document ID (not a note ID or UNID, just a unique number). This data source is named document1. When they exit the field, I perform a lookup and display either the document with that ID or a new document in an extlib Dialog control (data source bundleDoc). When bundleDoc is saved, I want to update a log field on document1 to indicate that a bundle document was added.
I can save bundleDoc and close (hide) the dialog but the code in my Save & Close button in the dialog can't "see" document1. I can't refer to it using document1.getItemValueString or by getComponent. The getItemValueString returns and empty string and getComponent throws an error because the return value is null.
I would have posted an image to help visually but I don't have enough reputation yet. :(
What am I missing? Shouldn't I be able to get to document1 from the dialog control since it is on the same XPage?
UPDATE: Two fields on the dialog form have computed default values that use getComponent to get their values from document1. So, at least when the dialog is loaded, it can see document1. Also, bundleDoc is not defined as a data source for the dialog control. I will try that tomorrow to see if it makes a difference.
UPDATE 2: Still not enough reputation to post a picture, but here is some code. This is one custom control that contains a dialog control. document1 is defined as the data source for the custom control and bundleDoc is defined as the data source for the panel in the dialog control that contains the table of fields for the bundle document.
The BundleID field in the dialog control has a computed default value using this:
if (bundleDoc.isNewNote()) {
getComponent("inputBundleID").getValue();
} else {
bundleDoc.getItemValueString("BundleID");
}
The formula for StorageLocationID is similar except that the component is inputStorageTrayID.
This is the code in the Save & Close button:
bundleDoc.save();
var newArr = new Array(document1.getItemValue("WorkLog"));
newArr.push("Added bundle " + document1.getItemValueString("BundleID") + " - " + session.getCommonUserName());
document1.setValue("WorkLog",newArr);
document1.save();
getComponent("dialog1").hide();
The error happens on the document1.save line but it does not get the BundleID from document1 (I set a sessionScope variable to the value of newArr and it showed 'Added bundle - Anonymous'.
It depends on where you have added the datasources. If document1 is set as the datasource of custom control 1 and bundleDoc is the datasource of custom control 2 you can't access them outside of the custom control they're defined in.
If you add document1 as the datasource of your custom control and create the xe:dialog control (containing a panel with the bunleDoc datasource) in the same custom control you should be able to access document1 (and update/ save it) from a button on the dialog.
I think the problem was initially caused by caching issues because it started working the day after I posted the question.
However, I had to do one more thing to get the page to work the way I wanted to. This is the XPage in Designer:
To write a value from the Save & Close button back to the WorkLog field, I had to save the document1 data source before opening the dialog. Then document1 was recognized throughout the Save & Close code and it was saved properly at all times.