Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - viewPanel, expandLevel and buttons

Mar 8, 2011, 7:20 AM

41 Posts

Re: viewPanel, expandLevel and buttons

One easy way to do this is to call the method directly against the data source during an event (i.e. button or link):

getComponent("viewPanelId").getDataModel().getDominoViewData().setExpandLevel(0); // 0 for collapse, 1 for expand

If the view data source is global to the page (or to a panel containing the event handler), not local to the view panel, you can skip all the chaining above and just refer directly to the var of the data source:

myView.setExpandLevel(0); // where <xp:dominoView var="myView" />

~Lex Brenisonettu

Mar 8, 2011, 5:00 PM

14 Posts

couldn't make it work

Tim,

Thanks for your reply. I believe your first method is appropriate for my situation, but I could not get it to work. I am probably doing something incorrectly, let me see if I can recap what I did.

I have one xpage with just a viewpanel and 2 buttons. The view panel has an id of viewPanel1 so in the expand button I have SSJS with the formula
getComponent("viewPanel1").getDataModel().getDominoViewData().setExpandLevel(1)

I created a collapse button with the SSJS getComponent("viewPanel1").getDataModel().getDominoViewData().setExpandLevel(0)

For both buttons, I first tried a Full Update, but when I previewed the xpage in a web browser and clicked the button, it would reload the page, but the view would stay the same. Next, I changed the button to Partial Update and selected viewPanel1 as my design element. When I reloaded the page, it refreshed just the view panel, but again the view did not change at all. It remained collapsed. Finally, I removed the setting in expandLevel property for the viewpanel. I thought maybe that was interfering. Next, when I viewed the xpage, the view was automatically expanded, but the buttons still had no effect.

The view is standard notes view with 2 categorized columns. The docs in the view are protected by readers field, but I am authenticated and can see all the docs.

When viewing the Xpage in the browser, I can click and open the different categories in the view without any problems. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong. I know I should create custom controls for the buttons and a separate one for the view, but I am new to XPages and just trying to keep it simple for now.

~Lex Brenisonettu

Mar 10, 2011, 6:30 PM

14 Posts

this solution worked

Not sure why this worked and the other solution that Tim suggested did not.. Any insight would be helpful, thanks

collapse link

var viewPanel = getComponent("viewPanel1");

var model:com.ibm.xsp.model.domino.DominoViewDataModel = viewPanel.getDataModel();
var container:com.ibm.xsp.model.domino.DominoViewDataContainer = model.getDominoViewDataContainer();

container.collapseAll();

expand link

var viewPanel = getComponent("viewPanel1");
var model:com.ibm.xsp.model.domino.DominoViewDataModel = viewPanel.getDataModel();
var container:com.ibm.xsp.model.domino.DominoViewDataContainer = model.getDominoViewDataContainer();
container.expandAll();