Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - InsertText equivalent?

Sep 4, 2012, 3:04 AM

366 Posts

Re: InsertText equivalent?

You can create a button with an onclick event that uses client side javascript to place focus on the field and then add the text to the field by setting it's value.

~Jennifer Ekjipymarettu

Sep 4, 2012, 6:27 AM

25 Posts

Re: InsertText equivalent?

Hey, you can do it using java script like field name.focus(), where field name comes from the document.forms[0], and the name comes from the HTML tag for that field.

~Zelda Prefooplopikle

Sep 4, 2012, 6:32 PM

21 Posts

Re: InsertText equivalent? .. still can't get it to work

Guys

Thanks for the replies. I did some digging and testing and I came up with the following but it doesn't seem to work

var woID = "view:_id1:waitingOn1";

document.getElementById(woID).focus;

I even found a bit of code but just can't get it to work.

Any ideas?

thanks

clem

~Cheryl Elhipigenlen

Sep 4, 2012, 7:40 PM

366 Posts

Re: InsertText equivalent?

Here is the source code for a complete working example. create a new xpage and in the source view replace the starter code with the code below. save and test in browser.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xp:view

xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core">

<xp:button

value="Focus on field and add text"

id="button1">

<xp:eventHandler

event="onclick"

submit="false">

<xp:this.script><![CDATA[var ipt = dojo.byId("#{id:inputText1}");

ipt.focus();

ipt.value = "Paul T. Calhoun";

]]></xp:this.script>

</xp:eventHandler>

</xp:button>

<xp:br></xp:br>

<xp:inputText

id="inputText1"></xp:inputText>

</xp:view>

~Zelda Prefooplopikle

Sep 5, 2012, 6:20 PM

21 Posts

Re: InsertText equivalent?

Hi Paul

Thanks! I couldn't get it to work initially b/c I'm trying to prepend text to a RichText field. When I change it so that I'm updating a text field, your code worked great.

I looked back at my LotusScript code found that I'm doing an InsertText which is a NotesUIDocument method not a NotesRichTextItem as I thought.

Still hunting for method to prepend text to a RichText field. Might have to provide a dialog where text could be entered and then in the backend update the RT field.

thanks

clem