If I understand the question correctly, the easiest way to show document data on an XPage is to bind a control to a field. such as:

 

<xp:label value="#{doc1.Body}"></xp:label>   This is using the JSF expression language. If the field has data it will be displayed here and vice versa if it has no data (and this control was a text field) typing content in here and executing a save would save that data to the domino doc field.

 

There is no way to interact with a domino document using only client side, domino docs are held on the server and in order to access them you will be required to use serverside script. If you need to use client side there are ways of matching the 2. The following URL has some great examples: 

 

http://www.jmackey.net/groupwareinc/johnblog/johnblog.nsf/d6plinks/GROC-7GLFZG 

 You could use the Remote Services in the Ext Lib or Upgrade Pack 1 

create a function that can be called from client side script. that does updates the field or fields. 

 

Check out this 

 

/Fredrik 

I reviewed both sites -- thanks very much!

 

However, I am not sure I can do this using the RPC or calling server side in client side...

 

Here is what I am doing:

1. User clicks button to call out to a servlet, returning JSON that I grab the name/value pairs from

2. I now have a value I need to populate a field in the document on the client side -- that is, the document has just been created (it is "new") and I need to put a value into a field

 

From my old Javascript days, I thought you could use:

document.forms[0].thisField.value = "Hello";

 

To populate a field on a document.  Can this be done in XPages?

 

Something like:

var doc = document.forms[0];

doc.thisField.value = "Hello";

 

From what I can tell, it looks like the field names (<input>) are dynamically changed when rendered on the web.

 

Could I use something like:

document.getElementById("thisField").value = "Hello";

 

Any help would be great...

 

Thanks!
Dan

 To populate the fields client side, here is what I did...

 

                               var doc = document.forms[0];

                               for(var x = 0; x < doc.elements.length; x++){
                                        if(document.forms[0].elements[x].name=="#{id:fieldName1}" ){
                                            document.forms[0].elements[x].value = "Hello";
                                        }
                                }

 

Seems to work OK...