Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - Periodic refresh of a view on an XPage

Mar 21, 2011, 3:40 PM

33 Posts

Re: Periodic refresh of a view on an XPage

I do not believe XPages has a timer control to automatically partial refresh at the moment. This would certainly be a welcome addition.

You may be able to write something in AJAX to do this..

I've found some code to automatically do the whole page though...

Hope this helps

Ian

~Karl Kigerosterikle

Mar 21, 2011, 5:40 PM

122 Posts

Re: Periodic refresh of a view on an XPage

Ian's code is fine. If you want to make it a bit more seamless to the user, then instead of reloading the whole document you could use

XSP.partialRefreshGet("#{id:myPanelId}");

This will just perform a partial refresh of the relevant area of the screen.

~Kim Dworesakonyetsi

Mar 22, 2011, 10:42 AM

33 Posts

Re: Periodic refresh of a view on an XPage

Paul

Good point. That works much better if it isn't the entire page you want to reload. I set my panel to 30 seconds.

<xp:scriptBlock id="scriptBlock2">

<xp:this.value>

<![CDATA[

setInterval(function() {

XSP.partialRefreshPost("#{id:<name of my panel>}", {

onStart: null,

onComplete: null,

onError: null

})

}, 180000)

]]>

</xp:this.value>

</xp:scriptBlock>

~Manny Kihipiverakol

Mar 22, 2011, 4:18 PM

8 Posts

Re: Periodic refresh of a view on an XPage

Thankyou all for your input.

I have tried the partialRefreshGet method and this works OK.

However, I have several views on my page (each embedded in custom controls) and sometimes one of them (always the same one) doesn't refresh automatically. It's a bit strange and I'm not sure why.

I recall seeing a post somewhere that multiple views on the same page can cause problems?

Running 8.5.2 BTW.