XPage Data View add rows not working on server - xpages

I'm working on a pretty simple mobile XPages example using a data view with an add rows event to load in more rows. It works when I preview locally, but not on the server - clicking the link does nothing (no error, no more rows, nothing). I installed Upgrade Pack 1 on Domino 8.5.3 (tried both Windows 2008 and Ubuntu Linux). What can I check and/or enable (debug) to find out why it isn't working on the server?
<xe:appPage id="ourFaculty" pageName="ourFaculty" resetContent="false">
<xe:djxmHeading id="djxmHeading1" label="Our Faculty"
transition="fade" moveTo="homePage" back="Home">
</xe:djxmHeading>
<xe:dataView id="dataView1" rows="8" pageName="displayContact"
openDocAsReadonly="true">
<xp:this.facets>
<xp:link escape="true" text="Load More Rows" id="link1"
xp:key="pagerBottom">
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="false">
<xp:this.script>
<xe:addRows for="dataView1" rowCount="8"></xe:addRows>
</xp:this.script>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:link>
</xp:this.facets>
<xe:this.data>
<xp:dominoView var="vwContacts" viewName="vwContacts">
</xp:dominoView>
</xe:this.data>
<xe:this.summaryColumn>
<xe:viewSummaryColumn columnName="Name"
columnTitle="Contact">
</xe:viewSummaryColumn>
</xe:this.summaryColumn>
</xe:dataView>
</xe:appPage>
More information...
I used a debugger to look at the HTTP requests. On the local database, here are the requests (relevant info) for the initial page and the "more" link:
GET .../mobilePage.xsp?$$ajaxid=view...$$viewid=!de59blf2bg! [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 20ms]
GET .../mobilePage.xsp/getRows?$$axtarget=view:_id...$$viewid=!de59blf2b5!&first=8&rows=8&state=false [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 30ms]
On the local preview, the "viewid" parameter is the same between requests. On the server, it's different:
GET .../mobilePage.xsp?$$ajaxid=view...$$viewid=!de59cuxasl! [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 30ms]
GET .../mobilePage.xsp/getRows?$$axtarget=view:_id...$$viewid=!de59cwhsqv!&first=8&rows=8&state=false [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 210ms]
no element found
I'm guessing that's the reason, but I don't know what's causing it or how to fix it.

on the xe:appPage try setting resetContent="true"

After lots of scenarios (thank goodness for virtual machines) and lots of debugging, I figured it out. It turns out that there was nothing wrong with the Extension Library. It came back to a URL redirection I had on the server for historical purposes. I had a URL redirection that converted "!" to "?". That was an old trick to get documents to appear to search engines. I got rid of those URL redirection documents, restarted HTTP, and everything works.

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Loading Indicator Page Full Refresh in XPages

One of my XPages there are mo many design elements. The page takes time to load more than expected according to connection speed. I would like to create an indicator to show the logged user "The page is loading"... I made it for partial refresh and it works great but i couldn't make it for full refresh. I have been looking for a solution for this.
I can try jquery, dojo or ajax.
Any suggestion is important.
Regards
C.A.
I've not yet made a dedicated NotesIn9 show for it yet, but I do a demo of a technique in this TLCC webinar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBaRSM9Ng_o&index=3&list=PL9nOJ-QrsuFa00dOsdE6EDh_l2fkiYD0D
The relevant part starts around the 26 minute part.
I'm doing this on loading the page initial but I'm sure could be adapted for a full refresh if you were already on the page.
The basic concept is on page load you don't actually load any long running data. You just sent the shell of the page and then in the onClientLoad event you trigger a partial refresh.
<xp:this.resources>
<xp:script src="/xpUtilities.jss" clientSide="false"></xp:script>
<xp:dojoModule name="extlib.dijit.ExtLib"></xp:dojoModule>
<xp:dojoModule name="extlib.dijit.Loading"></xp:dojoModule>
<xp:styleSheet href="/app.css"></xp:styleSheet>
</xp:this.resources>
Page 1
<xp:this.beforePageLoad><![CDATA[#{javascript:viewScope.put("vsHasData", false);}]]></xp:this.beforePageLoad>
  -  Header UI goes here....<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:panel id="MainContentWrapper">
<xp:panel id="MainContent">
<xp:this.rendered><![CDATA[#{javascript:return viewScope.get("vsHasData");}]]></xp:this.rendered>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:repeat id="repeat1" rows="100" var="rowData"
indexVar="rowIdx">
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:viewScope.get("vsStateMap").keySet()}]]></xp:this.value>
<xp:text escape="true" id="computedField2"
value="#{rowData}">
</xp:text>
-
<xp:text escape="true" id="computedField3">
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:viewScope.get("vsStateMap").get(rowData)}]]></xp:this.value>
<xp:this.converter>
<xp:convertNumber type="number"
integerOnly="true">
</xp:convertNumber>
</xp:this.converter>
</xp:text>
<xp:br></xp:br>
</xp:repeat>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:br></xp:br>
</xp:panel>
</xp:panel>
<xp:eventHandler event="onClientLoad" submit="true" refreshMode="partial" refreshId="MainContentWrapper">
<xp:this.action><![CDATA[#{javascript:return getStateTotals();}]]></xp:this.action>
<xp:this.onStart><![CDATA[XSP.startAjaxLoading("Calculating State Totals. This may take a few moments.")]]></xp:this.onStart>
<xp:this.onComplete><![CDATA[XSP.endAjaxLoading()]]></xp:this.onComplete>
<xp:this.onError><![CDATA[XSP.endAjaxLoading()]]></xp:this.onError>
</xp:eventHandler>
That's a demo page. The stuff to look at is for dojo resources that are added, the fact that I start off hiding the "MainContent" vie a scoped variable and then the end onClientLoad bit.
So the page loads, but the data to generate the repeat control does NOT run because it's in a non rendered panel. So the users get to the page instantly. Then the onClientLoad kicks - on Start it shows a "Please Wait" kind of thing then runs the function to get the data.
When the data is completed, I set a scopedVariable to then show the mainContent area and the endAjaxLoading stuff then triggers and everything gets displayed.
How you do this will not be XPages-specific. It's important to understand the order of events.
User clicks link somewhere to open page
Browser sends request to server
Server receives request and loads component tree for page server-side
Server runs beforePageLoad, afterPageLoad, beforeRenderResponse events
Server generates HTML to send to the browser
Server runs afterRenderResponse event
Server passes resulting HTML to the screen
Browser receives response from server
So adding anything to the XPage that is the target of the browser request at step 2 cannot have an effect. You need to do something client-side at step 1, before the request is sent to the browser. If you think about how you did it for the partial refresh and what's happening, again it's running CSJS before triggering the partial refresh, the same process.
If users are coming externally, the only option is to send them to a redirect web page first, render that, and continue programmatically running step 1.

XPage is blank in Webbrowser

After a new Domino Designer Installation (newest Trail) I created a simple, simple Xpage and try to open it in a Browser (FF). The Xpage was loaded but has not HTML code. In other words its a blank page.
What did I do wrong ?
Update :
This is the XPage source code , very simple
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xp:view xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core" rendered="true">
Hello World
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:comboBox id="comboBox1" style="width:82.0px">
<xp:selectItem itemLabel="Eis"></xp:selectItem>
</xp:comboBox>
</xp:view>
UPDATE :
The solution to my question was answered by stwissel givving a hint to the viewport. Indeed the viewport 80 was blocked by another program. Can' remember which one. Then I changed the viewport under preferences->Domino Designer -> Web View Port to 8080 and it works. But I doubt that this is a permanent solution.
Check if "Build automatically" is turned off. If so (recommended setting btw) just build the project manually after every change you made.
Also check if the page has the "rendered" property set to "false". This will result in an empty response though you won't get an error message.
I answer my question myself, because there are different behaviours with FireFox and Edge Browser. In another try with Edge the browser shows a 404 Eror, while FireFox did not do that. So the question finally has to be why is there a 404 Error coming up
Have you tried cleaning the project? Project >>> Clean (from the top toolbar in designer)

XPages SSJS is not started throw Reverse-Proxy

may be someone helps :)
I don't know much about Apache-Reverse-Server
I have a simple X-Page, see the code bellow.
If I open the xpage via
http: //domain1.de/e.nsf/test.xsp
and press the button, in log.nsf i see my print-out "Button is clicked"
If I open the xpage via
https: //example1.someproxy/rp/sproxy/http$domain1.de$80$/e.nsf/test.xsp
and press the button, in log.nsf i DON'T see my print-out "Button is clicked"
The Proxy-Server is installed and configured not by me.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xp:view xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core">
<xp:link escape="true" id="link1" disableTheme="true">
<xp:image id="image1" url="/btn.jpg"></xp:image>
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="true" refreshMode="complete" >
<xp:this.action><![CDATA[#{javascript:print("Button is clicked");}]]></xp:this.action>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:link>
What could be the problem, that the SSJS-code is not started via Reverse-Proxy at all?
Is reverse proxy the problem? Or is the problem that your code is not triggering?
I can't tell from your user id how experienced with XPages you are, but bear in mind a number of steps are performed on the server before it gets to your print statement. One of the key ones is conversion and validation. So if anything on your XPage throws a validation error, it won't run SSJS code.
Do you have a Display Errors control on the XPage and, more importantly, inside the refresh area? If not, add one. We've all spent hours in our early XPages life because validation or data conversion has failed and we didn't add anything to let us know. Once you get more confident, a PhaseListener is another useful tool for checking any or all lifecycle phases are running.

xe:dialog won't open in edit mode with view picklist OpenNTF control

I'm using the Extension Library and XPages to build a web based workflow application. One feature is to prompt a dialog and select the next approver before submitting it forward.
For new documents, the dialog appears, and it also appears when in read mode. It never opens for a saved document. I need it to work in SSJS, though the dialog does open in CSJS. Here is some of the code:
xpMain.xsp contains two custom controls: ccButtons and ccWFloDialogs.
ccButtons "Submit" button:
getComponent('dlgNextOwner').show();
ccWFloDialogs "dlgNextOwner" dialog:
<xe:dialog id="dlgNextOwner" title="Select Supervisor">
<xe:formTable id="ftDlgNextOwner" formTitle="Select Supervisor"
formDescription="You may select a different supervisor."
disableErrorSummary="true">
<xp:this.facets>
<xe:formRow id="formRow1" xp:key="footer" for="txtWFloNextOwner"
labelWidth="125px">
<xp:inputText id="txtWFloNextOwner" style="width:200px"
value="#{viewScope.nextOwner}">
</xp:inputText>
<xe:namePicker id="npNextOwner" dialogTitle="Select Supervisor"
for="txtWFloNextOwner">
<xe:this.dataProvider>
<xe:dominoNABNamePicker addressBookSel="all-public"></xe:dominoNABNamePicker>
</xe:this.dataProvider>
</xe:namePicker>
</xe:formRow>
</xp:this.facets>
</xe:formTable>
</xe:dialog>
In CSJS, I can use the following code and it successfully opens the dialog:
XSP.openDialog("#{id:dlgNextOwner}");
I'm also using Mark Hughes' picklist from the extension library, and if I remove the panel which contains the control and data source, the dialog shows up in SSJS! The code is in a custom control, although, if it's directly in the XPage, the problem is the same. Here is the code for the panel:
<xp:panel
id="vendorDiv">
<xp:this.data>
<xp:dominoView
var="nvVend"
viewName="V_Vend"
ignoreRequestParams="true"
databaseName="other/lookupdb.nsf"
startKeys="#{javascript:viewScope.srchVend}">
</xp:dominoView>
</xp:this.data>
<xe:formTable
id="ftGetVendor"
disableErrorSummary="true"
labelPosition="above">
<xe:formRow
id="frVendor"
for="cfVendorName"
label="Name of the Vendor:">
<xp:text
escape="true"
id="cfVendorName"
value="#{currentDocument.VendorName}"
style="width:200px">
</xp:text>
<xc:viewpicklist
rowsPerPage="15"
buttonImage="./add.png"
tableClass="tablecellgreen"
headerClass="headerclass"
rowClass="odd, even"
searchBar="false"
searchButtonText="Search"
searchButtonClass="button2"
searchBarClass="headerclass"
pagerStyleFirst="navbutton1"
pagerStylePrevious="navbutton2"
pagerStyleCurrent="navbutton4"
pagerStyleNext="navbutton2"
pagerStyleLast="navbutton3"
typeAheadBar="true"
select="Column"
onReturn="Set Scope Value"
bottomBarClass="bottomround headerclass"
cancelButtonText="Cancel"
cancelButtonClass="button2 floatthisright"
type="Single Value"
finishButtonText="Finish"
finishButtonClass="button2 floatthisright"
multiSelectButtonAddImg="./add.png"
multiSelectButtonRemoveImg="./delete.png"
picklistButtonClass="button"
openDialogWith="Link"
picklistLinkImg="./add.png"
multiSelectLinkAddImg="./add.png"
multiSelectLinkRemoveImg="./delete.png"
selectWith="Link"
clearSearchImg="./cross.png"
SelectCellWidth="30px"
dialogID="dlgVend"
dialogTitle="Select a Vendor"
dialogWidth="80%"
refreshID="vendorDiv"
ssjsSelectFunction="getVendorInfo"
varName="viewScope.vendorInfo"
datasrc="nvVend"
selectColumn="4"
linkImg="./add.png"
typeAheadVar="viewScope.srchVend">
<xc:this.viewColumn>
<xp:value>0</xp:value>
<xp:value>1</xp:value>
<xp:value>2</xp:value>
<xp:value>3</xp:value>
</xc:this.viewColumn>
</xc:viewpicklist>
</xe:formRow>
<xe:formRow
id="frVendorStatus"
for="cfVendorStatus"
label="Vendor Registration Status:">
<xp:text
escape="true"
id="cfVendorStatus"
value="#{currentDocument.VendorStatus}">
</xp:text>
</xe:formRow>
<xe:formRow
id="frVendorCountry"
for="cfVendorCountry"
label="Country Name:">
<xp:text
escape="true"
id="cfVendorCountry"
value="#{currentDocument.VendorCountry}">
</xp:text>
</xe:formRow>
</xe:formTable>
</xp:panel>
The requested vendor information populates the fields, without any problem or errors. However, something here seems to prevent dialogs from opening up using SSJS.
Can anyone see anything obvious I'm missing? The data source is in the panel, ignoreRequestParams is true (otherwise it doesn't work).
The main data source is in the entire XPage context. I tried to add the ccWFloDialog custom control outside the main panel, and change the data source to the panel, but that didn't work.
Any ideas?
Forget the dialog for now. This is probably data source related. Suggest you get it working just on the xpage first. With visible fields. then maybe use the rendered property to get it working on the xpage similar to how the dialog would appear. Once you have that working then you should be good to apply to dialog. This idea is to just take the dialog out of the equation first to make sure it works normally.
Instead, I decided to open the dialogs using CSJS, instead of SSJS. I've changed some of logic, and will have a bit more to do to finish this part of the project. Thanks to all!

Extensions Library Dialog Box refresh / caching issue?

I seem to be having an issue with the extensions library dialog box either not refreshing or caching values.
Please see the very simplified example below. Basically the button pops up an extension library dialog box. Contained in the dialog box is a computed field with #Unique() as it's value. On our prod server the number is not being updated when the button is pressed. It works on the first button press but subsequent presses do not update the number.
This occurs only in production and a similar issue has only started occurring in the past couple of weeks. It still works fine on our Dev and QA servers.
My admin contacts are out right now so I don't know the differences in versions between the servers but I will post them when I learn that information.
Here is the code:
<xp:view xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core"
xmlns:xc="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/custom"
xmlns:xe="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/coreex">
<xp:this.resources>
<xp:script src="/Validation_SSJS.jss" clientSide="false"></xp:script>
</xp:this.resources>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xe:dialog id="dlgMsg2" title="Message" style="width:400px;">
<xp:text escape="true" id="computedField1" value="#{javascript:return #Unique();}">
</xp:text>
</xe:dialog><xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:button value="Popup Message" id="button1">
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="true"
refreshMode="complete">
<xp:this.action><![CDATA[#{javascript:var dlg = getComponent("dlgMsg2");
dlg.show();}]]></xp:this.action>
</xp:eventHandler></xp:button>
</xp:view>
Update: The issue is occurring in both IE and Firefox so it does not appear to be browser related. I am guessing it is not Pistolstar related either as I had a previous issue with PS and Xpages. Pistolstar has discovered that issue and I will update my previous post when I get more details
Update: I checked and our QA and Prod servers are have version 8.5.3.20111208-0717 of the extension library.
I came up with a "workaround" to fix this issue. I added a refresh event handler for the onShow event of the dialog box.
<xe:dialog id="dlgMsg2" title="Message" style="width:400px;">
<xp:text escape="true" id="computedField1" value="#{javascript:return #Unique();}">
</xp:text>
<xp:eventHandler event="onShow" submit="true"
refreshMode="partial" refreshId="computedField1">
</xp:eventHandler></xe:dialog>
It would still be interesting to know the underlying issue.
In the All Properties section of the dialog there is a property called 'RefreshOnShow'.
When set to true the contents of the panel will be refreshed every time the panel goes from a hidden state to a visible state. This should resolve the issue that you are seeing.
It may be unlikely, but page persistence options in the xsp.properties could alter the way the page behaves across environments. There is the xsp.properties on the database and on the server. XPages Portable Command Guide has more details on the different settings, but settings could change what gets retained between requests.

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