Hi

 

I have a requirement to allow users to create links between different xpages (which may be in different applications).

The xpage URL does not display the documentID parameter so it is not possible for the user to copy the URL and create their own link. I have provided a link button which calls a method of the backing bean to create a HTML <a> tag and copies this to the system clipboard. The user should then paste the link from their clipboard into the document that they want to link from.

 

My problem is that the java bean method seems to copy the link into a local clipboard rather than the system clipboard. If I get the clipboard contents from the same bean then it returns the html <a> tag as expected. If I paste the clipboard contents (in an xpage or other application) I get something different.

 

import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard;
import java.awt.datatransfer.ClipboardOwner;
import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;
import java.awt.datatransfer.StringSelection;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable;
import java.awt.datatransfer.UnsupportedFlavorException;

 

...Other bean stuff

 

    public void copyLinkToClipboard() {
        XSPUrl xspUrl = XSPContext.getXSPContext(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance()).getUrl();
        try {
            Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
            StringSelection link = new StringSelection("<a href=\"" + xspUrl.getAddress() + "?documentId=" + getDocument().getUniversalID() + "&action=editDocument" + "\">Document</a>");
            clipboard.setContents(link, null);
        } catch (NotesException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }

Anybody know what I am doing wrong ?