Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - Can you pass values to an agent from a button?

Sep 1, 2011, 8:40 PM

298 Posts

sure

You can still call your agent via a url with parameters and build the url programtically (see the link control). Or, you could have SSJS that got the NotesAgent class for that agent and then pass in a documentContext (8.5.2 only). Note that for the second option the agent has to be set as "Run as web user" for the agent to run and not throw an error. Hoping they fix this in 8.5.3... Howard

~Rex Umreman

Sep 1, 2011, 9:47 PM

272 Posts

Re: Can you pass values to an agent from a button?

...and last but not least you can use a profile document or a normal document [with Agent.run(noteid)].

Sven

~Holly Zekhipisonnivu

Sep 1, 2011, 10:30 PM

64 Posts

AJAX is the cleanest method, imho...

- XPages include dojo, which has dojo.xhrGet() & .xhrPost() to invoke a GET or a POST using AJAX. They're quite simple to use, very repeatable, and work with any version of Domino out of the box. LotusScript will require some extra code to get the values from JSON, but there are libraries on the 'net for that. Google and enjoy.

Hope this helps...