Is it possible to export a custom contact view to Excel? I have a button that goes to the ExportContacts.page that is defined like:
<apex:page standardController="Contact" contenttype="application/vnd.ms-excel" recordSetVar="contacts" extensions="ExportContactsExtension" >
<apex:pageBlock title="Contacts">
<apex:pageBlockTable value="{!contacts}" var="contact">
<apex:column value="{!contact.LastName}"/>
<apex:column value="{!contact.FirstName}"/>
<apex:column value="{!contact.Name}"/>
<apex:column value="{!contact.MailingCity}"/>
<apex:column value="{!contact.Phone}"/>
<apex:column value="{!contact.Fax}"/>
<apex:column value="{!contact.MobilePhone}"/>
</apex:pageBlockTable>
</apex:pageBlock>
</apex:page>
The ExportContactsExtension.cls is defined like:
public class ExportContactsExtension {
public ExportContactsExtension(ApexPages.StandardSetController controller) {
//set the page size so all records will be exported
controller.setPageSize(controller.getResultSize());
}
}
The question is can I export the specific fields specified in the contacts view? On the ExportContacts.page, I have to define the fields to export, like last name, first name, etc. Now if I create a new contacts view and add say the email address, I'll see it on the page, but if I click the export button, it doesn't include the email address. Can I make that export dynamic to include all of the values from the current view?
Why exactly you need such view in first place? Is there some complex logic in controller for selecting the records?
If the query for them can be written in standard SOQL (like [SELECT FirstName, LastName, MailingCity, Phone, Fax, MobilePhone FROM Contact]), then it might be much more effective for you to export records with Data Loader or Excel plugin called "Excel Connector".
And if you need to be able to both export and (pre)view the data on the Salesforce page - consider creating a report? That's what they are for and there's built-in functionality to export to Excel or CSV.
Unfortunately what your asking is not possible with apex today. To do this you'd need a way to query what the page layout was for the record being view and then inspect which fields are visible.
You can export your results to Excel by using the contentType attribute on the apex:page component. See the following post:
Visualforce Export to Excel / IE Bug
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I want to display some read only URL in STRAPI collection page.
let's say I am at
/admin/plugins/content-manager/collectionType/application::my-public-form.my-public-form/1
now I have one field that need to display URL like this
https://myurl/1
is there is any way to get current url i.e. /admin/plugins/content-manager/collectionType/application::my-public-form.my-public-form/1
and in field I display https://myurl/1
This is going to be a lengthy answer, but let me try to simplify as much as possible.
Explanation:
To achieve this you need to simply create a field in the collection type and mark it as non-editable in the admin interface. This will make it a read-only property. Next, we need to override the afterFindOne from the lifecycle hooks of the model so that when it fetches the entry from the db, we can pre-populate the url for that particular entry, so that it's displayed in the read-only field in the UI.
Implementation:
Let's assume we are creating a collection-type called Student, which some basic field like first_name, last_name, dob and student_url. We are going to make the student_url field read-only in the following way:
Create the collection type Student as show in the screenshot.
Visit the newly created collection-type in the content-manager, click on Create new entry button, and then click on Configure view in the right hand panel.
Click on the small pencil icon which is besides the student_url field to open a popup, and then set the Editable property to False and click Finish.
At this point you're almost done, the only thing left to do is set the lifecycle hook to populate the student_url field when it's fetched from the database so that it's displayed correctly in our UI.
Create a lifecycles.js file in your model folder.
// src/api/student/content-types/student/lifecycles.js
module.exports = {
afterFindOne(event) {
const { result } = event;
// You can easily change this line to `/admin/plugins/content-manager/collectionType/application::my-public-form.my-public-form/${result.id}` in your project.
if (result) result.student_url = `https://example.com/${result.id}`;
},
};
And that's it. Now create an entry in the admin UI with the rest of editable fields and see entry being populated automatically with the student_url. Cheers!
I am displaying list of my custom objects on liferay portlet.
Now my problem is I want to provide Export feature to user.
There will be export link below list displayed.
When user click on that button it will download the displayed list as excel file.
I am generating excel file while generating the list for display.So, now my problem is how exactly export link should behave.
My export button code.
<portlet:actionURL name="exportURL" var="exportURL"></portlet:actionURL>
<p>← Export</p>
One approach I am thinking is after generating excel file I can upload it in Document library of Liferay and then provide download link as export link on portlet is it a good approch?
Instead of using <portlet:actionURL> you want to use <portlet:resourceURL>. This triggers the resource-phase of the portlet where you can serve other content types than just HTML snippets, e.g. Excel types.
I have the impression that you nailed the excel export itself already and just need an idea how to get to the export from the portlet UI, right? In serveResource you get a ResourceRequest and ResourceResponse object and can set the Mimetype for the response (and its OutputStream)
You should generate the file only after user clicks the link for export as adarshr has written in comment to your question. It will be useless waste of server resources if you generate the file and upload it to download center every time the list will show in the portlet.
You can use poi-2.5.1.jar for excel file generation in java.
Make use of serveResource method.
Below code snippet ,you can make use of.\
Workbook workBook = new HSSFWorkbook();
Sheet sheet = workBook.createSheet("new sheet");
Row row = sheet.createRow((short)0);
Cell cell = row.createCell(0);
//set row,cell value as per your custom entity
resourceResponse.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");
OutputStream out = resourceResponse.getPortletOutputStream();
workBook.write(out);
HTH,
Regards
Using orchard cms 1.6 I have a table in my db 'cars'. I want to display the column 'CarName' from the table, as a list on screen with all the records from the table.
carname1
carname2
carname3
When the user clicks on their link it will bring them to that page.
I know how to do this from the view e.g.
#T("Cars")
but I would like to try and create a content type which shows this list.
Content type seems to be all UI related. Im not sure how to take a table and display a column as a list on screen through the content type...any idea on how to do this?
then I can choose to show the content type as a form and the user can view it from the main menu.
thanks
It looks like you want to create a content type called Car, possibly with a CarPart and a record class CarPartRecord (perhaps refactor your Car class to CarPartRecord to follow Orchard's naming conventions). Make sure CarPartRecord derives from ContentPartRecord.
To render a list of Cars, you could use a Projection that renders a list of cars. A Projection renders content based on a Query, which you configure using the dashboard.
Alternatively, you could create a controller that leverages IContentManager to query all Car content items, and returns a view to render them in a table.
For each Car content item, use Html.ItemDisplayLink to render a link to its details page.
I have an Xpages application that pulls data from another .nsf file. I have a view panel linked to a view in that db. The view has documents with several different forms in it. I want to be able to open each document in it's own form(xpage).
How do I write a computed At Runtime, open selected document using: statement that will select the correct Xpage to present the document.
If you use the Data View component instead of a View Panel, you can compute the pageName attribute, referencing the var attribute to return a different value for each row based on the document that row represents. The flexibility of the Data View component also makes it easier to make your app look more like a modern web application and less like an Excel spreadsheet. As an additional bonus, the mobile theme invokes a renderer that makes each Data View instance look like a native mobile list, so using Data Views instead of View Panels simplifies mobile development.
You have 2 options:
use "use xpage associated with form" and edit the form's property
use a SSJS formula to compute the Form. You provide a variable name in the view control var to access a view row as XSPViewEntry. If the Form is in a view column even one you don't display you use .getColumnValue otherwise getDocument.getItemValueString
Does that work for you?
Maybe this mothed can help you: Unable to get document page name for
Hope this helps
Mark
I had a similar problem today. I use only one form but 3 different xpages for associated with this form. I have 3 different document types in the view. I used rowData the get the type of the document.
try{
var v=rowData.getColumnValue("form");
if(v.indexOf("x")> -1){var page ="x.xsp"}
else if(v.indexOf("y") > -1){var page = "y.xsp"}
else{var page = "z.xsp"}
}catch(e){
var page = "x.xsp"
}
So to your view you can create a column with the value of the form and you can use it.
I have used the extension library Dynamic View control which has an event you can code to get a handle to the NotesViewEntry which was selected. See the demo database page Domino_DynamicView.xsp and the Custom Event Handler tab for an example.
Note, in 8.5.3 (I have not upgraded yet) if you add or edit the eventHandler for onColumnClick it will be added to the XPages source as an xe:eventHandler. It needs to be an xp:eventHandler to work. The way to do it is to copy the code in the source from the exiting event and delete it. Recreate the event and update the code. Then go back into the source and change the tags within the eventHandler to xp:.
I have created a custom field type as it is there in sharepoint OOTB, the difference is only that the end user does not need to check the name i.e I have replaced it with DropDownList. The dropdownlist suggest the no. of users available in the web site for that I have created a FieldClass which inherits from SPFieldUser and a FieldControlClass which inherits from UserField. It is working fine in all conditions i.e when I create a List or Document Libarary it shows me the DropDownList
with respective users after saying OK it creates an item for me. I have overriden a Value property in FieldControlClass as follows,
public override object Value
{
get
{
SPUserCollection userscollection = rootWeb.SiteUsers;
//ddlInfoBox is a DropDownList to which I have Binded the collection of users in the form of string
SPUser user = userscollection.Web.EnsureUser(this.ddlInfoBox.SelectedValue);
SPFieldUserValue userval = new SPFieldUserValue(user.ParentWeb, user.ID, user.LoginName);
return userval;
}
set
{
SPFieldUserValue userval = (SPFieldUserValue) this.ItemFieldValue;
this.ddlInfoBox.SelectedValue = userval.Lookupvalue; //Here look up value is nothing but a Login name e.g In-Wai-Svr2\tjagtap
}
}
Due to above property the Custom Field's Value for this current ListItem will be stored as SPFieldUserValue e.g 27#;In-Wai-Svr2\tjagtap.
The main problem is here, when this particular ListItem is shown in the list page views e.g on AllItems.aspx or the custom view pages associated with it, it shows the
number as 27 as a FieldValue insted of HyperLink with text as "In-Wai-Svr2\tjagtap" and PostBackURL as "/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?ID=27".
When I edit this Item it makes the respective value selected in the dropdownlist, also while viewing this item i.e on DispForm.aspx it also shows the hyperlink. I have
acheived it by writting a custom logic in createchildcontrol() method i.e by using ControlMode if it is New or Edit then fill the dropdown list, if it is Display then get the ItemFieldValue Type Cast it into SPFieldUserValue and get corresponding lookupid and value for making the URL and showing Text of the HyperLink.
I have spent a lot of time on searching and bringing the HyperLink as the user name with navigation insted of UserID (27) as a string on the list view pages e.g AllItem.aspx but to no avail, then after a lot of research I found that there might be a way of achieving such kind of functionality by using field type definition xml file where there is a provision to define a DisplayPatteren as you wish by specifying the html code. But here is a problem How can I get the UserID (27) with respective UserName e.g In-Wai-Svr2\tjagtap inorder to make an anchor tag like In-Wai-Svr2\tjagtap which will solve my problem. I have hard coded this anchor tag within the Default case statement of a switch under DisplayPatteren but it shows me the field value on AllItems.aspx as
In-Wai-Svr2\tjagtap27 i.e the value defined in xml file is concatenating with the string value (27).
Please help me to resolve the above mentioned 2 issue. I am really in need of solving this problem ASAP.
Thanks & Regards,
Tejas Jagtap
Have u tried to override the GetFieldValueAsHtml() method in the the custom field class or maybe the RenderFieldForDisplay() method in the custom field control class.
Can you use the DisplayPattern CAML from the User field type?