I'm having a problem obtaining the value from a field on my custom control through a function on the same custom control, and I'm absolutely baffled.  If anybody can please point out where my logic is incorrect and how I would obtain the value, that would be wonderful!  This is the last part of a solution I posted here for keeping the selected tab after an xPage document is saved or edited.  Now I'm trying to get the value of a unique item to tell it when NOT to keep the selected tab.

 

The name of the field I'm trying to obtain the value of is computedField2,  but it doesn't seem to matter what field or if the field is editable or computed as I've tried this with a bunch of fields on the custom control.  And the function itself is called by the onClick event of a dijit.layout.TabContainer on the same custom control.                                                        

 

 John Mackey had advised me that what I need is a client side solution, which works perfectly on everything else, so I've tried document.getElementById, getClientId, dojo.byId, and just about everything else I can think of, but I keep getting the message that the value either null or, the way I'm trying to obtain it is not defined.  I've even tried calling the compositeData item itself, but got the not defined message.  Here is the code:                                             

 

<script type="text/javascript">                                        
<![CDATA[                                                              
                                                                       
// This gets the tab the user is currently on, so we can set it when the user saves or edits the document                                   
dojo.require("dojo.NodeList-traverse");                                
                                                                       
function getTabName(e)                                                 
                                                                       
{                                                                      
                                                                       
// Lookup what tab the user is on                                    
        var tab = dojo.query(e.target).parents('.dijitTab')[0];        
        if (tab) {                                                     
                                                                       
        // As the widgetId contains the full path, we just want the tab id                                                                     
 var userHere = tab.getAttribute('widgetId').toString();             
 var underBar = userHere.lastIndexOf("_");                           
 var justTabName = userHere.substring(underBar + 1);                 
 var employer = document.getElementById('#id:computedField2}');      
 alert("employer:  " + employer);                                    
setCookie('justTabName',userHere.substring(underBar + 1),'1');       
        }                                                              
    }                                                                  
                                                                       
]]>                                                                    
</script>      

 

Where has my logic gone off the rails?