Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - create author and reader fields

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~Zach Froponekony

Nov 28, 2011, 4:36 PM

6 Posts

create author and reader fields

Category: Server Side JavaScript
Platform: Not Applicable
Release: 8.5.3
Role: Developer
Tags: Control Document Access
Replies: 2

Hello everyone,

I want to control document access in a database which uses XPages. For that reason I need to create reader and authors fields.

I thought the trick is to access the Item and setReaders or setAuthors. But I can't get an Item of an NotesXspDocument or com.ibm.xsp.model.wrapped.DominoDocument because the only way to create a new item is replaceItemValue which is a void. So I get the wrapped Document and work with lotus.domino.Document. There I get an Item with replaceItemValue and can set it to Readers or Authors. In different szenarios this works fine.

But now I want to set items in the beforePageLoad event. If I set this items with lotus.domino.Document nothing happens. It seems like the changes in the lotus.domino.Document are not reflected to the NotesXspDocment. But there is no refresh function ;). If I set items with the NotesXspDocument everything is fine.

This example simply does nothing. The value is not saved:

<xp:this.beforePageLoad><![CDATA[#{javascript:
try {
var itm:NotesItem = currentDocument.getDocument(true).replaceItemValue("itwuwfProcessAuthors",null)
itm.setValueString("CN=Stephan Schramm/O=ITworks/C=DE")
itm.setSummary(true)
itm.setReaders(true)
} catch(e) {
printMsg(e.toString() + "\n" + @ReplaceSubstring(e.getStackTrace().toString(),",","\n"))
}

}]]></xp:this.beforePageLoad>

This example works. But I can't set the type to Authors or Readers:

<xp:this.beforePageLoad><![CDATA[#{javascript:
try {
    currentDocument.replaceItemValue("itwuwfProcessAuthors","CN=Stephan Schramm/O=ITworks/C=DE")
} catch(e) {
    printMsg(e.toString() + "\n" + @ReplaceSubstring(e.getStackTrace().toString(),",","\n"))
}
}]]></xp:this.beforePageLoad>

Another trick is to simply save the document. Then the changes are reflected. But the user could still decide not to save and that would really create a lot of gabage and deletion stubs.

Thanks for any ideas on this topic.

~Mark Bubnizen

Nov 28, 2011, 6:37 PM

170 Posts

Re: create author and reader fields

Why not setting The fields before saving instead?

/Fredrik

~Zach Froponekony

Nov 29, 2011, 1:29 PM

6 Posts

Re: create author and reader fields

I want to use this functionality in a lot of java classes.For example I have some classes which control a workflow and the function updateProcessInformation should not have the limitiation not to work in every event. At the moment it works with the com.ibm.xsp.model.domino.wrapped.DominoDocument object for everything else.

There are a lot of workarounds. For example to simply computeWithForm with the reader and author fields on it. But this means I need a form and so on and so on.

I want to programm as dynamicly as possible and have no restrictions. And I hate workarounds ,)

But I will cope

Kind regards

Stephan