Populate an InputText Date field (that has a calendar picker)

I didn't see much on this, so I'm posting in case it helps someone.

I'm working on an application that has an XPage that a user fills out, then clicks to get a new version of that page. Most of the data should carry over, including an inputText field for a Domino document bound to a date field and I have the default datepicker on it.

I put the values from the first page into sessionScopes and used that to populate them for the next page. Easier on the user. All of them worked except the date.

Here is what worked.

Getting the value:

var nDT:NotesDateTime = document1.getItemValueDateTime('EventDate');
sessionScope.put("EventDate", nDT.getDateOnly());

Setting the value in afterPageLoad:

document1.replaceItemValue('EventDate', session.createDateTime(sessionScope.EventDate));

I've not found a way to set the component value yet, it's just not worked in any permutation I've tried so far. This does what I need so far, so I stopped trying on the component.

Cheers,
Brian

Looking for Domino/XPages Developer positions

My employer had decided to migration off the Domino platform. The direction chosen is not one I'm comfortable with, and so we have decided to part ways. They are doing no new development, and there will be limited allowance for changes to the existing .nsfs. I'm sad to have to go from what otherwise has been a great position, but where they are going is the one I don't want to go.

So, this puts me open. I'm up for contract or perm situations. I've been hitting the boards, but if you have a suggestion, please contact me at my yahoo.com address: brian.moore100 I've got quite a bit of experience, and I can bring that to work for you.

Cheers,
Brian

First 2 repeat values on the same row - a simple example

I have some data where I want to show records about people in two columns. Even in one column, odd on the other. So like a categorized view, only rather then have each subsidiary datum on it's own row, I want two columns, so like this:

I'm using repeats for this. It's not overly complicated, but I thought it would be nice to post in case anyone wanted to see it. And this is a simple example, since I think those are important.

There may be better ways of doing this, but this is one solution. First, I take a repeat and populate it with 1 through 10 in an array. Then I iterate through that array and if the index of the array element is even, I put it in an array called "evenArray" (naturally). As you can guess, the other is "oddArray". Those arrays are each put in a sessionScope. After this, I create a new array with a single value and return that (the repeat needs to return something). I'm keeping this simple, but you could populate the arrays using a function or whatever.

Then I have a table with one row and two columns. Each column has a repeat in it. One column's repeat uses the oddArray sessionScope, the other uses the even one. There is a computed field returning the collection name of each array.

This can be expanded, of course. But this is a nice simple example of the process. I have the entire XPage below. You can pop it in and run it.

Cheers,
Brian

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xp:view xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core">
    <xp:panel>
        <xp:repeat
            id="repeat1"
            rows="30"
            var="rowData">
            <xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:var headArray = [];
headArray[0] = '1';
headArray[1] = '2';
headArray[2] = '3';
headArray[3] = '4';
headArray[4] = '5';
headArray[5] = '6';
headArray[6] = '7';
headArray[7] = '8';
headArray[8] = '9';
headArray[9] = '10';

var evenArray = [];
var oddArray = [];

for(n = 0; n < headArray.length; n++){
    if (n %2 == 0){
        evenArray.push(headArray[n]);
    } else{
        oddArray.push(headArray[n]);
    }
}

sessionScope.put('evenArray', evenArray);
sessionScope.put('oddArray', oddArray);

var rtnArray=[1];

return rtnArray;}]]></xp:this.value>
            <xp:table>
                <xp:tr>
                    <xp:td>
                        <xp:repeat
                            id="repeat2"
                            rows="30"
                            value="#{sessionScope.evenArray}"
                            style="width:161.0px"
                            var="evenRowData">
                            <xp:text
                                escape="true"
                                id="computedField2"
                                value="#{javascript:evenRowData.toString();}">
                            </xp:text>
                            <xp:br></xp:br>
                        </xp:repeat>
                    </xp:td>
                    <xp:td>
                        <xp:repeat
                            id="repeat3"
                            rows="30"
                            style="width:325.0px"
                            value="#{sessionScope.oddArray}"
                            var="oddRowData">
                            <xp:text
                                escape="true"
                                id="computedField3"
                                value="#{javascript:oddRowData.toString();}">
                            </xp:text>
                            <xp:br></xp:br>
                        </xp:repeat>
                    </xp:td>
                </xp:tr>
            </xp:table>
        </xp:repeat>
        </xp:panel>
    </xp:view>

Archive of my last Blog

I'm moving my blog over here, from BleedYellow. I created an XPage application to hold all my posts from there so that I have them and so they are independently available. I considered posting all here, but who wants that, eh? Here it is.

It should be easier to post here. And I have a couple coming up.

Cheers,
Brian

New blog

Moving over from my previous blog at http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/DominoHerald I'll be looking to move my posts to here or elsewhere. This will be a IBM/Lotus Notes/Domino centered blog and what I do in Java and NoSQL.

Cheers,
Brian