Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - open calculated link in new page

~Lily Kihipisonetsi

Nov 21, 2011, 12:11 PM

261 Posts

Re: open calculated link in new page

How are you creating the links? Using a <xp:link> control?

If so, you can simply add the target="_blank" attribute.

Mark

~Lorraine Nimjipyburakol

Nov 21, 2011, 2:13 PM

51 Posts

Re: open calculated link in new page

No I' m using : <xp:this.pageUrl> and returning the link

~Hank Quetrepulnivu

Nov 21, 2011, 5:50 PM

53 Posts

Re: open calculated link in new page

If you go to the onclick event in all properties of the link you can add

window.open(href, "_blank");
return false;

Edit - sorry, ignore that, didn't read your second post properly this applies to links still

Second edit - actually, you may be able to use this on the onclick event still (don't normally use views so had to check)

~Lorraine Nimjipyburakol

Nov 22, 2011, 8:19 AM

51 Posts

Re: open calculated link in new page

Still can't get this to work.

In the all properties of the View Column I have :

displayAs : link

PageUrl : the calculated link

when I add "_blank" to the calculated link under PageUrl , it doesn't work.

When I calculate the link under the onclick event it doesn't work ...

Probably I'm misunderstang something ..

~Lily Kihipisonetsi

Nov 23, 2011, 9:40 AM

261 Posts

Re: open calculated link in new page

Marc,

You can't set the target on a default viewPanel column.

What you need to do:

add a var attribute to your xp:viewPanel control so you can reference an entry in a view column:

<xp:viewPanel rows="30" id="viewPanel1" var="entry">

add a <xp:link> control to the link column:

<xp:viewColumn id="viewColumn7">
            <xp:this.facets>
                <xp:viewColumnHeader xp:key="header" id="viewColumnHeader7" value="link to document"></xp:viewColumnHeader>
            </xp:this.facets>

            <xp:link escape="true" id="link1" target="_blank">
                <xp:this.text><![CDATA[#{javascript:entry.getColumnValue("nameOfTheColumnContainingTheTextForTheLink")}]]></xp:this.text>
            <xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:entry.getOpenPageURL(null, true)}]]></xp:this.value></xp:link>

</xp:viewColumn>

(the second parameter of the getOpenPageURL defines if you want to open the page in read or edit mode)

Mark

~Lorraine Nimjipyburakol

Nov 23, 2011, 12:25 PM

51 Posts

Re: open calculated link in new page

Mark,

Thank you , this way I can open a page in a new tab ,

but ....

since the link is to open a pdf file in a notes document from another database , it doesn't seem to work.

Replacing the null in the getOpenPageURL with the correct url doesn't seem to work because some code is added after this url automatically ...

~Lily Kihipisonetsi

Nov 23, 2011, 2:18 PM

261 Posts

Re: open calculated link in new page

In that case you need to create the link yourself instead of using the getOpenPageURL function:

<xp:link escape="true" id="link1" target="_blank">
<xp:this.text><![CDATA[#{javascript:entry.getColumnValue("nameOfTheColumnContainingTheTextForTheLink")}]]></xp:this.text>

<xp:this.value><![CDATA[#{javascript:@Left(context.getUrl().getPath(), ".nsf") + ".nsf/0/" + entry.getUniversalID() + "/$file/" + "yourPDFsFileName.pdf"}]]></xp:this.value>

</xp:link>