In my Custom Control I have SSJS for a combobox onchange event to update an element using partial update.
The event is not fired when I'm in new document mode but fires when in edit mode.
I've tried other combinations such as Full Update, other events but it seems like Partial update is not working when in New Document mode.
Am I missing something here?
Using examples from: xpageswiki.com
Please advice
/Mike
I'll need to see the block for your radio button from your page's XML source.
These types of issues are sometimes caused by a bad event handler. In particular, depending on how you use Eclipse, there may be more that one block due to bugs in DDE. If you find more than one block, remove all but one, and try again. When this happens to me, I normally remove all blocks, then use the DDE UI to manually add the code and settings back.
When having required fields on the form and they are not filled in the event will not fire due the JSF phase. Setting the Server option "Process data without validation" to True will prevent the JSF to validate and continue with the event.
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I have an xpage with a bunch of controls on it. One of them is a simple label that I'm updating with a partial refresh every five seconds. (I'm implementing a document locking scheme, and the label indicates whether someone has locked the document.) A button on the page fails to execute its event handler if I press it while the partial refresh of the label is occurring. At other times, it works fine. Is this a known issue, or is there perhaps something else going on that may explain this behavior?
(I'm unable to post sample code, unfortunately.)
You need to change your approach. Instead of a partial refresh, have an independent Ajax call to an XAgent for your locking (IMHO 5 sec is way to frequent, the WebDAV standard uses 30sec).
The openNTF WebDAV project has locking code you might be able to repurpose for your needs.
The independent Ajax call frees up the jsf lifecycle to run your other events.
I found this question, but it does not appear to be resolved, and I also have more to add.
First off, the linked question defines pretty much the same issue that I am having.
1. I am using the application layout control from the ExtLib
2. It does not matter if the button is in that control or not.
3. CSJS actions will fire from the button, SSJS actions will not fire.
4. No errors are present
5. Browser / cache is irrelevant as the server side action just will not fire.
After seeing the linked question, I looked in the Local file in the package view and found an anomaly that makes me wonder if it could be the cause. I have never seen such a file before and even looked in my other xpage projects just to be sure.
This file cannot be deleted, and when clicked upon, the display window says that the element does not exist.
Does anyone know what this file is, how I can remove it, or could it be that my application is corrupted?
**More Info **
The following snippet is copied from the java file for the XPage located in the Local directory. Everything looks fine to me.
private UIComponent createEventHandler(FacesContext context,
UIComponent parent, PageExpressionEvaluator evaluator) {
XspEventHandler result = new XspEventHandler();
String sourceId = "button2/xp:eventHandler[1]/xp:this.action[1]/text()";
MethodBinding action = evaluator.createMethodBinding(result,
"#{javascript:view.postScript(\"alert(\'server script fired!\')\");}",
null,null, sourceId);
result.setAction(action);
result.setSubmit(true);
result.setEvent("onclick");
result.setRefreshMode("complete");
return result;
}
EDIT
Moving all of the design elements into a new .nsf so that file is no longer present does not change the problem of the SSJS onclick action not firing. That strange file is however not present.
Is it failing on a converter / validator? That can cause it to skip out of the lifecycle before Invoke Application phase. To test whether a button is actually working, you can also use "Do not validate or update data". Then the SSJS runs in Apply Request Values phase. If the SSJS is triggered (you won't have the latest data from the browser in the data model or components though), then it's another good bet for converter or validator failure.
Background: Xpage with multiple data sources. Each row of tabbed table contains an edit panel bound to a different data source than the main page. Each page contains a table to enter new documents. These documents are children of the main document. There is a view control that shows the user created documents immediately. The button in the table saves the document in addition to adding some control fields. It does a partial refresh of the editPanel.
Recently I added validation to the fields in the entry table. I use a function, and prevent updating from anything but the button. I am using Tommy Valand's method from this blog post: http://dontpanic82.blogspot.com/2010/03/xpages-making-validation-behave.html. If I don't use Tommy's method, then the validators fire when switching tabs, and are useless.
All of this works sort of, but I am experiencing the following issues.
1) I have to push the button twice to get the partial refresh to fire. Not only that, but the validation messages to not fire until the button is pushed twice. The first part was still an issue prior to adding the validation.
2) The table values do not clear after the refresh does happen. This used to work prior to adding the validation. The only way to get the values to clear now, is to do a full refresh (F5).
I really just need partial refresh to behave like it should. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I am answering my own question because I think that I might have found out why the partial refresh was acting so flaky. Here is what I did that solved my issues: Each tab had an editPanel. If I make the edit panel do a partial refresh to itself then the buttons on that panel seems to behave as you would expect them to.
When I create a new core control panel, the default in No submission. I do not know whether this issue manifests itself only when using multiple data sources and/or tabbed tables. Hopefully this fix will be of use to someone down the road. It is worth a try if you are having issues with partial refresh working correctly.
I've set my button to 'Submit'. The XPage is set to stay on the same page if save is successful. How do I create a messagebox to inform user the save is successful?
There are a number of options you can consider. A msgbox is the least desirable.
You could add an information message on top of the form that either fades after a few seconds or on change. The custom control would show when you set a viewScope variable (e.g. viewScope.saveSuccess ) and have a visibility formula for it. It also would register an event listener to hide when a field is altered. You also could consider redirecting to a different page.
This post already asks a similar question to do with how to call a client side script from server side, could be useful.
client message after SSJS routine how?
Here are two examples that I have used as inspiration to create a custom control for error messages and for info messages such as what you are asking for:
http://openntf.org/XSnippets.nsf/snippet.xsp?id=ssjs-form-validation-that-triggers-errormessage-controls
http://lotusnotus.com/lotusnotus_en.nsf/dx/xpages-tip-a-simple-cc-for-prompting-ssjs-messages-to-ui....htm
The easiest way to call csjs after running ssjs is to add code the event handler's onComplete event. The onStart, onComplete, and onError events run client side js before or after your ssjs, but are only executed during a partial page refresh.
The simplest way is to add this line of code (or the CSJS you prefer) in the postSaveDocument event:
view.postScript('alert("Document saved")');
I hope someone can help me solve a very serious problem we face at the moment with a business critical application losing data when a user works in it.
This happens randomly - I have never reproduced this but the users are in the system a lot more than me.
A document is created with a load of fields on it, and there are 2 rich text fields. We're using Domino 8.5.3 - there are no extension lib controls in use. The document has workflow built in, and all validation is done by a SSJS function called from the data query save event. There is an insane amount of logging to the sessionscope.log and also this is (now) captured for each user in a notes document so I can review what they are doing.
Sometimes, a user gets to a workflow step where they have to fill in a Rich Text field and make a choice in a dropdown field, then they submit the document with a workflow button. When the workflow button is pressed (does a Full Update) some client side JS runs first
// Process any autogenerated submit listeners
if( XSP._processListeners ){ // Not sure if this is valid in all versions of XPages
XSP._processListeners( XSP.querySubmitListeners, document.forms[0].id );
}
(I added this to try and prevent the RTF fields losing their values after reading a blog but so far it's not working)
then the Server-side event runs and calls view.save() to trigger QS code (for validation) and PS code to run the workflow agent on the server.
95% of the time, this works fine.
5% of the time however, the page refreshes all the changes made, both to the RFT field (CKEditor) and the dropdown field are reloaded as they were previously, with no content. It's like the save hasn't happened, and the Full Update button has decided to work like a page refresh instead of a submit.
Under normal circumstances, the log shows that when a workflow button is pressed, the QuerySave code starts and returns True. Then the ID of the workflow button pressed is logged (so I can see which ones are being used when I am reviewing problems), then the PostSave code starts and finally returns true.
When there is a problem, The QuerySave event runs, returns true if the validation has passed, or false if it's failed, and then it stops. The ID of the workflow button is also logged. But the code should continue by calling the PostSave function if the QuerySave returns true - it doesn't even log that it's starting the PostSave function.
And to make matters worse, after the failure to call the PostSave code, the next thing that is logged is the beforePageLoad event running and this apparently reloads the page, which hasn't got the recent edits on it, and so the users loses all the information they have typed!
This has to be the most annoying problem I've ever encountered with XPages as I can find no reason why a successful QuerySave (or even a failure because mandatory fields weren't filled in) would cause the page to refresh like this and lose the content. Please please can someone help point me in the right direction??
It sounds as if in the 5% use cases, the document open for > 30mins and the XSP session is timing out - the submit causes the component tree to be re-created, and the now empty page returned back to the user. Try increasing the time out for the application to see if the issue goes away.
I would design the flow slightly different. In JSF/XPages validation belongs into validators, not into a QuerySave event. Also I'd rather use a submit for the buttons, so you don't need to trigger a view.save() in code. This does not interfere with JSF's sequence of things - but that's style not necessarily source of your problem.... idea about that:
As Jeremy I would as a first stop suspect a timeout, then the next stop is a fatal issue in your QuerySave event, that derails the runtime (for whatever reason). You can try something like this:
var qsResult = false;
// your code goes here, no return statements
// please and if you are happy
qsResult = true;
return qsResult;
The pessimistic approach would eventually tell you if something is wrong. Also: if there is an abort and your querySave just returns, then you might run in this trap
function noReturn() {return; } //nothing comes back!
noReturn() == true; --> false
noReturn() == false; --> false
noReturn() != false; --> true!!!!
What you need to check: what is your performance setting: serialize to disk, keep in memory or keep latest in memory? It could be you running foul of the way JavaScript libraries work.
A SSJS library is loaded whenever it is needed. Variables inside are initialized. A library is unloaded when memory conditions require it and all related variables are discarded. so if you rely on any variable in a JS Function that sits inside a SSJS library between calls you might or might not get the value back, which could describe your error condition. Stuff you want to keep should go into a scope (viewScope seems right here).
To make it a little more trickier:
When you use closures and first class functions these functions have access to the variables from the parent function, unless the library had been unloaded. Also functions (you could park them in a scope too) don't serialize (open flaw) so you need to be careful when putting them into a scope.
If your stuff is really complex you might be better off with a backing bean.
Did that help?
To create a managed bean (or more) check Per's article. Your validator would sit in a application bean:
<faces-config>
<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>workflowvalidator</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>com.company.WfValidator</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>application</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
</faces-config>
Inside you would use a map for the error messages
public Map<String,String> getErrorMessages() {
if (this.errorStrings == null) { // errorStrings implements the MAP interface
this.loadErrorDefinitions(); //Private method, loads from Domino
}
return this.errorStrings;
}
then you can use EL in the Error message string of your validators:
workflowvalidator.errorMessage("some-id");
this allows XPages to pick the right one directly in EL, which is faster than SSJS. You could then go and implement your own custom Java validator that talks to that bean (this would allow you bypass SSJS here). Other than the example I wouldn't put the notes code in it, but talk to your WfValidator class. To do that you need to get a handle to it in Java:
private WfValidator getValidatorBean() {
FacesContext fc = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
return (WfValidator) fc.getApplication()
.getVariableResolver()
.resolveVariable(fc, "workflowvalidator");
}
Using the resolver you get access to the loaded bean. Hope that helps!
My experience is that this problem is due to keeping page in memory. Sometimes for some reason the page gets wiped out of memory. I'm seeing this when there is a lot of partial refreshes with rather complex backend Java processing. This processing somehow seems to take the space from memory that is used by the XPage.
The problem might have been fixed in later releases but I'm seeing it at least in 8.5.2.
In your case I would figure out some other workaround for the CKEditor bug and use "Keep pages on disk" option. Or if you can upgrade to 9.0.1 it might fix both problems.