I found a difference between Lotus Domino SSJS iterpretation and regular Javascript.
Look at this snippet...
var mister = "mister in the hat".replace(" ", "-");
return mister
Regular Javascript does replave only once. The result is "mister-in the hat".
SSJS does full replace. The result is "mister-in-the-hat".
Is there any documentation, in what way the SSJS is diferent from regular JS?
I suspect Server-Side JavaScript will be influenced more by Java rather than JavaScript. This is because any SSJS written is just passed as a string to a Java method that parses the code at runtime. I know of ither differences to CSJS - parseInt, for example, defaults to base 10, not base 8 (JavaScript default).
The behaviour is documented in the Domino Designer help, under Lotus Domino Designer XPages Reference - Standard (JavaScript) - String - Replace. If in doubt, check out the Help. It's very good for these libraries, with plenty of examples as well as documentation.
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I am rather new to ASP.NET MVC5. I know server side controls are not working directly in MVC, but there will be some way by which we will get similar controls in MVC5 for rapid development. Can you suggest me how can I find such controls? Can you list out all such mostly used common controls for MVC5?
Thanks in advance.
There's no concept of a "control" in MVC. There's various things that function similar to Web Form controls, but it depends on what you're trying to do.
HTML Helpers are similar in that you essentially call a function that returns rendered HTML. You can extend HtmlHelper to add your own.
Child actions function as a sort of separate request within the context of the main request. They accept parameters like an action, can do all the backend stuff an action can do (query database, etc.) and return a view rendered based on a model, like a normal view.
A partial view, in general, can function as a control as it allows you to insert a snippet of HTML somewhere.
Editor templates and display templates can be used in conjunction with Html.EditorFor and Html.DisplayFor, respectively to render a form field or some sort of HTML display for a particular property on your model.
I'm currently building a custom control to be used as an application's view navigator (classic OneUI style). First of all: this is a 8.5.3 based project, and unfortunately there's no way to use Extlib stuff or other extensions / plug-ins. So we have to build all the tricky stuff ourselves using only what came "out-of-the-box" with 8.5.3.
I'd llike to build my navigator using a repeat control containing <xp:link> controls. Datasource could be an array of javascript objects where each single object would look like this:
var navEntry = {"entryLabel" : "label-of-link",
"entryTarget" : "target-url-of-link",
"entryStyle" : "style-to-emphasize-selected-link"}
Each array element then would describe a single navigator entry.
Since the navigator will be used in all possible "DominoView" Xpages it yould make sense to build the array of JS objects at the Xpage level and then pass that info into the custom control.
I'm aware that there are multiple ways to do this, and one could be "Custom Control Properties". If there was a way to pass my JS object array.
(Hope I could make clear what I'm trying to do here...)
That object looks like a HashMap to me really. You should be able to pass that in to a custom control via custom property if you use the type java.util.HashMap I'd think. You'll need to type it in I'm sure. I've passed custom objects in by using java.lang.Object.
The custom control will get loaded during the Page Load event, and usually properties have to be available at that point. If they're loaded during the Render Response phase, that's too late. So your SSJS object will need to be Compute on Page Load.
To use contents of a repeat control, you would need to set repeatControls=true, otherwise the repeat is only built during render response. Until then it's just a single set of controls with no data in them. However, Im pretty sure repeatControls="true" means you only get the number of rows you define. You can't change it via a pager.
You can manually define the type of the custom property. For a standard SSJS Object you use "com.ibm.jscript.std.ObjectObject", for a SSJS Array you use "com.ibm.jscript.std.ArrayObject" etc. As editor for the custom property, I set the string editor ("String value").
limit number of characters entered in cognos search and select prompt
`The below script works for text box.
<script>
// The ASDF here comes from the Name property of the prompt
var fW = (typeof getFormWarpRequest == "function" ? getFormWarpRequest() :
document.forms["formWarpRequest"]);
fW._textEditBoxASDF.maxLength = 3;
</script>`
I need a similiar piece of code to work with Search and select prompt.
I don't have cognos in front of me but let me tell you how i did stuff like this with Javascript. Please read entirely as there are several approaches.
Put a uniquely named/id DIV tag around your native Cognos select and search prompt(The one your typing in. This will make it easy to reference with Java's dom model for the next steps. We will eventually make this default search prompt invisible/hidden but for now keep it visible until the following steps are coded/debugged.
Create an HTML control in the simliar style as the native Select and search with the proper max-length settings that you want. Use the text box on change event to update the native Cognos select and search prompt. for debugging troubleshooting i find it handy to have javascript alert the DIV innerHTML so you can see whats under the hood with the Cognos control. Sometimes i uses this innerHTML as the starting point for my "Cloned/Shadow" HTML prompt that i have control over.
Once you have your new HTML control effectively changing the Cognos control you can make it invisible.
On complex dashboards/scorecarding i wrote routines to clone cognos prompts and expose their HTML so i could create my own control that would quietly manipulate the actual hidden controls. This gave me complete control over presentation and functionality.
There are many variations on this once you have the controls innerhtml like replacing the innerHTML with one of your own immediately after the page loads that has the restrictions on length. Or simply seeing if you can massage the property learning from the innerhtml.
In Cognos 8.4 and 10 there is a new method to dynamically add a method to a control to be called prior to any other methods. It is tricky but it is on IBM's web site. I may be more cleanly implemented in 10 and also IBM is not shy about showing off these solutions on their web site.
Any suggestions on what to look for before moving to 8.5.3?
For example XSP.partialRefreshGet or XSP.partialRefreshPost commands should take a second parameter (even an empty one) after 8.5.3.
Are there any other known things to check for ?
Heads up for upgraders : 8.5.3 cannot support > 1 rich text editor per xpage if the image upload feature is used.
After 8.5.2 (not 8.5.3!), viewScope should be getting serializable variables by default.
http://lotusnotus.com/lotusnotus_en.nsf/dx/serialization-viewscope-and-exploding-xpage-after-upgrade....htm
After 8.5.3, Custom control and XPage elements will not accept "-" character in their names. Existing ones continue to work but you may not create new ones.
I noticed that c:set does not work well used inside "include of include of include", as important notice facelets documentation does't recommend it too.
Now I am using ui:param inside ui:include, but it is a bit dispersive when no attached notes about params comes with the include, is there something other way to declare "global vars"?
This is really a matter of trying to fit old JSP programming into the JSF framework. You should be using backing beans to hold your data.
If you try to hard-code data directly into your xhtml file, you are defeating the purpose of JSF's MVC framework. If you have a specific example of what you are trying to do, I could give you a specific recommendation.