Have a region generate result of expression on data reference

Question

within a region, is there a suggested way to generate an
evaled javascript output? spry:content doesn't really do it.
say i have a function makePrettyName(name) that returns a
string
i'd like to insert the result of
makePrettyName( {dsPerson::name} )
within a region as it is generated. any suggestions?
thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
One way to do this is to register an observer function for
the dsPerson dataset, for the onPostLoad event that will update the
records under the 'name' column using you function:
dsPerson.addObserver({onPostLoad: function() {
var rows = dsPerson.getData();
var numRows = rows.length;
for (var idx = 0; idx < numRows; idx++)
var row = rows[idx];
row['name'] = makePrettyName(row['name']);
Then use {dsPerson::name} reference to display the name of
the person
Regards,
Dragos