Has anyone experienced an issue with disableOutputTag property where if you disable output tag for a computed field control inside a repeat control and have ssjs computed content inside that tag, it won't compute the content? Is disableOutputtag property only meant to work with static content inside a repeat control or is it a bug?
I don't know whether its a bug or not, but you can emulate the behavior of disableOutputTag by removing the ID attribute from and setting the disableTheme attribute to true. Maybe this helps you in short term.
EDIT: You can refer here for more information.
Not only does this happen when placing the xp:Text control inside a repeat but in also when you create a new XPage, add a xp:text onto it and define its value like:
<xp:text value="This is a test" disableOutputTag="true"/>
In the above example the xp:text will disappear. This is not what you would have expected. I would expect that only the value would be visible on the rendered page. But I think I can explain why this happens. Since there are no tags defined (disableoutputtag) somewhere in the rendered of this component it states that it should not generate anything. Because it can not bind its id to 'nothing' and so on.
Anyway, I could not think of a scenario where I would like to render plain text without any surrounding tags. It should at least be surrounded by a span or paragraph (<p>) tag so you can style it. And an ID would be nice so I can change the contents with a partial refresh.
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I am working on something like this:
A JSF template has a side-navigation bar which contains links(either anchor or h:outputLink), and there are cases where two options lead to the same link(page), but with a different value in view parameter, and thus rendering different data being displayed on the page.
Is there a way to do this? Using commandLink or commandButton does not seem like an option to me since it will mess up the styling.
Thanks in advance.
An output link is just a normal HTML link, so a conventional way to do this is with a query parameter, e.g. /contentarea.xhtml?myparam=value.
I don't think you should bind a method to the output link. That would involve a Javascript onclick handler (commandLink), and I don't think that's necessary here. That said, I'm surprised you say commandLink messes with the styling, as it renders a normal HTML link.
See also
http://incepttechnologies.blogspot.ca/p/view-parameters-in-jsf-20.html (see the first technique using f:viewParam)
http://www.mkyong.com/jsf2/jsf-2-link-commandlink-and-outputlink-example/
I am working on a large, worldwide application, which includes access from areas of low bandwidth. As such, I want to use a minimum of SSJS or partial refreshes for all the complex hide/when calculations. Here is what I have so far for a simple "hide/when":
A Yes/No radio button, with CSJS to show a panel ("Yes") or hide the
panel ("No").
The panel has a formTable inside it, and the values are shown or hidden, as per #1.
In the XPage's onClientLoad, the following code is run:
// "getRadioValue" is a simple script to return the value of a radio button
var v_value = getRadioValue("#{id:radioButton}");
v_div = '#{javascript:getClientId("radioButtonPanel")}';
// show or hide div simply use dojo to change the display of the panel
if (v_value == 'Yes') {
showDiv(v_div);
} else {
hideDiv(v_div);
};
For a new document, the onClientLoad script will hide the "radioButtonPanel" successfully. Changing the radio button to "Yes" will show the radioButtonPanel, just as clicking "No" will hide it. It works great! :-)
Once the document is saved and reopened in read mode, though, the onClientLoad CSJS event should read the saved value in the document, and decide to show the panel or not. When the document is opened in edit mode, the onClientLoad fires, reads the radioButton value and successfully shows or hides the panel.
This is what I've tried so far, to get it to work in read mode:
In CSJS, using "#{javascript:currentDocument.getItemValueString('radioButton'}" to get the value,
Doing some calculations in the "rendered" or "visible" properties, but that's SSJS and, if hidden, prevents any of the "show/hideDiv" CSJS visibility style changes.
Adding an old fashioned "div" to compute the style (which is what I used to do before XPages), but since I can't do pass-thru html any more, I can't seem to get a CSJS calculation for the style. Ideally, I can do something like this:
<div id="radioButtonPanel" style="<ComputedValue>">
Where the ComputedValue would read the back end value of the document, and decide to add nothing or "display:none".
Note that I don't want to use viewScopes, since this long form would need many of them for all the other hide/when's.
Is there any way to make this 100% CSJS? I feel like I'm very close, but I wonder if there's something I'm just missing in this whole process.
First, rather than computing style, I'd recommend computing the CSS class instead -- just define a class called hidden that applies the display:none; rule. Then toggling visibility becomes as simple as a call to dojo.addClass or dojo.removeClass.
Second, I see that you're using the #{id:component} syntax to get the client ID of the radio button but using SSJS to get the client ID of the panel. Use the id: syntax for both; this is still just a server-side optimization, but if there are many instances of these calculations, it adds up. Similarly, replace #{javascript:currentDocument.getItemValueString('radioButton'} with #{currentDocument.radioButton}. Both will return the same value, but the latter will be faster.
Finally, any attribute of a pass-thru tag (any component with no namespace, like xp: or xc:) can still be computed, but you'll need to populate the expression by hand, since the editor doesn't know which attributes for valid for these tags, and therefore doesn't provide a graphical expression editor. So if the ideal way to evaluate the initial display is by wrapping the content in a div, the result might look something like this:
<div class="#{javascript:return (currentDocument.getValue('radioButton') == 'Yes' ? 'visible' : 'hidden');}">
<xp:panel>
...
</xp:panel>
</div>
I have a repeat that has buttons embedded in it. The repeat is in a panel. When the user clicks a button the button should hide/show (I partial refresh the panel). The repeat is tied to a Domino view and I see the other values that I from that view get updated in the repeat, so, it does not seem like a view index issue (I refresh the view index in my code.)
If I use context.reloadPage() in my button onclick code then the buttons will hide/show like they should, but, that seems like I am using a sledge hammer! Any suggestions on how to get the buttons to recompute the visible property when the panel that holds the repeat is rendered? Another strange thing is that the visible property gets computed three times whenever I refresh the panel that holds the repeat.
thanks, Howard
I think your looking for
getComponent("<id>").setRendered(true / false);
Hi For Repeat control's entry is used to make our head hard. Because handling the entry by SSJS, we can get the value and set the value. But rendering part, id of the repeating component are same for all. So if we try to give reder as false. It hides all of our repeating component.
Try to use the following., [Put this in button onclick, and see the value of below]
var entryValue= getComponent("repeat1").getChildren().get(0).getValue()
getComponent("inputText1").setValue(entryValue)
But in client side we can easily handle. Because the id of the DOM object is unique for all repeating component.
var id1="view:_id1:repeat2:"+'2'+":button1"
document.getElementById(id1).style.display="none"
This will hide the third entry of your repeat control component.
Please see the post, You may get better idea
Found a solution. My original solution was getting values from the repeat rows (using the collection object, which was a viewentrycollection and using getColumnValues) to compute the rendered property for the buttons.
Instead, I created a viewScope variable (a Vector) that holds the state of the buttons (which set of buttons to show). This gets populated in the beforePageLoad event of the page.
The button onclick code updates this viewScope variable after performing its processing. All works very nice now. I guess it was something in the JSF lifecycle that kept the buttons from being properly updated. Using the viewScope variable works fine.
With addition to what Ramkumar said, you can use the index variable in the repeat control to identify each and every occurrences inside the repeat control. You will get more idea, if you inspect with element from firefox[You might need firebug]. Usually the field mentioned inside a repeat control itself can be considered as an array
Is there any chance to get the html content (mime) from a rich text component without any datasource. I would like to grab the content from the field like this. getComponent("FieldName").value but this dosen't work.
thanks.
You can bind the control to a scoped variable; for example, #{viewScope.comments}. You can then retrieve the submitted value from the scope instead of from the component itself; for example, viewScope.get("comments").
Alternatively, you can set a dataContext variable to a JS expression, e.g. <dataContext var="richText" value="#{javascript:return {value:""};}" />. Then you can bind the control to #{richText.value} and retrieve it via the same expression.
And, of course, you could define a managed bean and bind the control to one of its properties. This option provides the most flexibility, but isn't quite as simple as the other two options above.
The solution for my problem is
getComponent("FieldName").getValue()
thanks for your help.
I have a form which one of it's fields is a code and description, also a button for opening a popup window that contains a list of all of the available codes.
when the user double clickes a row from that table i want to set these values to the code and description. - how can this be done?
Another question, I want to create this popup and table to be initialized dynamically - by that i mean that if i have a few forms in my application, when ever i have a field which has a description i want to be able to open this popup and to see the available list for that field. (every field can be from a diffrent table). is it possible to create something like that? if so, how?
Any help will be appritiated,
Thank's In Advance.
Yes, it is possible. Even more, many component libraries have ready to use popup/dialog components, such as RichFaces with <rich:popupPanel> and PrimeFaces with <p:dialog>.
If you do not want to use a component library for some reason, you would need to create a custom component for this which generates basically an absolutely positioned HTML <div> element with a CSS overlay which get shown/hidden by JS on a particular click/action. The HTML/CSS/JS part should be relatively simple if you are familiar with those languages. The JSF part is somewhat hard if you have never created a custom component before, but it should be possible with a composite component as well, so you could also just create one with pure XHTML. The updating/refreshing can just take place by the usual <f:ajax> means.