Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - iFrame substitute in XPages

~Karl Froresazenlen

Apr 14, 2011, 7:06 AM

149 Posts

Re: iFrame substitute in XPages

What is the problem? if you want to do an iframe just type your -iframe- tags in the xpages source pane.

the only drawback of using your own html instead of controls is that you can't use ssjs to get or set the content.

hope it helps

Thomas Adrian
http://www.notessidan.se

~Karl Kigerosterikle

Apr 14, 2011, 12:10 PM

122 Posts

Re: iFrame substitute in XPages

As an alternative, for showing content from an RDBMS, I would strongly suggest looking at the slides of Paul Calhoun's session on integrating with RDBMS from XPages. He's presented the session at a variety of LUGs, so they are freely available - here's a link I found immediately http://iamlug.org/iamlug/IamLug2010.nsf/0/4157F9B285855BEC8625770F0053CA57/$FILE/iamlug.xml.jdbc.xpages.calhoun.pdf.

This may perform better than redirecting to a servlet and may allow you greater flexibility and functionality.

During "Ask The Developers" at Lotusphere earlier this year it was also announced that RDBMS controls for the Extension Library are also being built. I'm not sure of the timescales, but that may also be worth bearing in mind when considering how you implement writing your content - it may make it easier to integrate the controls when they become available.

~Zach Umniplopnivu

Apr 15, 2011, 3:13 PM

26 Posts

Re: iFrame substitute in XPages

Thanks Paul for your suggestion. I will surely look into this and update this post if I find any solution for RDBMS.

Regds,

Yusuf

~Autumn Fezfoolyader

Apr 16, 2011, 6:21 PM

3 Posts

Re: iFrame substitute in XPages

@Thomas - not sure you can just put in the iFrame tags in the source.

@Yusuf - It took me some time to find it but I think it was a blog entry from Tripcony or Hodge but one of them was using a computed field. I think this falls in line with what you are trying to do with the html that the rdbms is spewing. Here's what I did as an example:

create sample xpage
put computed field on xpage
in properties make sure that content type is HTML
in properties in the values tab click the advanced radio button for the Bind option
paste your iframe stuff in there. or really any html code.

Here's my source(the real URL's were obsfuscated to protect the innocent):

<xp:text escape="false"
                                    id="computedField1">
                                    <xp:this.value><![CDATA[<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>]]></xp:this.value>
                                </xp:text>

I hope this helps.

~Zach Umniplopnivu

Apr 18, 2011, 7:13 AM

26 Posts

Re: iFrame substitute in XPages

Thanks a lot for further directions. I would give this a try and post back here. My objective is to retrieve a set of rows from RDBMS filtered by the logged-in user's ID. And the returned set of values should be displayed on the UI and has to be a link to a specific lotus database.

I really appreciate.

Regards,

Yusuf