netui:form how do i create Action URL in JavaScript

Question

hi,
i want to submit the <netui:form> along with action form data to JPF from the
java script,
i can call the action method from the java script but actionForm is not passing
to JPF....
pls guide me....
vijay

Answer 1

The javascript that you suggested is similar to what we're using. When the onChange
message is fired, both bits of javascript produce the following url;
http://localhost:7001/mpsportal/getVersion.do?product_id=1
This works fine in the weblogic browser but not in portal. If you use an anchor
to fire the action, portal creates the following url;
http://localhost:7001/mpsportal/mpsportal.portal?_nfpb=true&portlet_1_1_actionOverride=/portlets/task/getVersion
So I've tried to put the 'extra bits', namely 'mpsportal.portal?_nfpb=true&portlet_1_1_actionOverride=/portlets/task/'
into the javascript as below;
javascript:window.location='mpsportal.portal?_nfpb=true&portlet_1_1_actionOverride=/portlets/task/getVersion.do?product_id='+document.forms[0][getNetuiTagName('product_id')].value;
When this is run in portal it produces exactly the same url that portal produces
except it has the parameter tagged onto the end;
http://localhost:7001/mpsportal/mpsportal.portal?_nfpb=true&portlet_1_1_actionOverride=/portlets/task/getVersion.do?product_id=1
Unfortunately portal doesn't like the parameter on the end and gives an error
message 'Unable to find action getVersion.do?product_id=1'. The problem is that
the value on the form, the product id in this case is not stored when the javascript
jumps back to the server so it has to be sent in the url.
If we can find a way of sending these values through in the url without portal
complaining OR forcing the form to submit its values then its problem solved.
Thomas Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
Does this work?
onChange="javascript:window.location='getVersion.do?product_id='+document.getElementById(getNetuiTagName('product_id',
this)).value;"
When you say the problem is in the onChange() method in the NetUI tag,
can you elaborate on what you think might be happening?
Thomas
Steve Hicks wrote:
Thomas
We want to get java script to work with a netui:select tag so that whenthe user
selects it, we populate a different netui:select tag (this requiresa call back
to weblogic). Nothing to do with forms in Vijay's post!
Here is a portion of our JSP:
<td>
<netui:select dataSource="{actionForm.product_id}"
optionsDataSource="{pageFlow.taskProduct.taskProductSL}" nullable="false"multiple="false"
onChange="javascript:window.location='getVersion.do?product_id='+document.forms[0][getNetuiTagName('product_id')].value;"
tagId="product_id"></netui:select>
</td>
This works in the workshop debugger but NOT when we use it via portal(where nothing
happens). The problem is in the javascript 'onChange' method in thenetui tag...
Regards
Steve H
Thomas Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
Getting back to Vijay's original post - something like the following
should work (I can't confirm this code works since I'm in the middle
of
a build), but I have done this before. Does this not work? It should
submit the form from javascript, as Vijay requests, passing the field
value to the JPF via the action form.
<netui:form tagId="myForm" action="doSomething">
<netui:textBox dataSource="{actionForm.doSomethingValue}"/>
<netui:button value="Submit" onClick="return doSubmit()"/>
<script language="javascript">
function doSubmit()
var form = document.getElementById( getNetuiTagName( "myForm",
this ) );
form.method = "post";
form.submit();
return true;
</script>
</netui:form>
Steve Hicks wrote:
We have this problem and it seems quite sad that you can not perform
this (typical)
function using portal. Anyone from BEA watching? Could they do something
about
this in sp3?
"Anant Kadiyala" <[email protected]> wrote:
Beware that it is not entirely good idea to have action url in the
Javascript.
I had some problems with it. It works fine when you test it at the
pageflow
level.
But when you pull the pageflow into a portlet, it starts acting strange.
The urls
that the portal generates behind the scenes dynamically, get messed
up
and you
will notice that the new acion opens in a new browser window and
will
not have
the context of the portal.
Although the docs say we could use action urls in Javascript, youmight
want to
make sure it works in the portal context.
Anant
"julie" <[email protected]> wrote:
do you still need help making an action url in javascript?
"vijay patel" <[email protected]> wrote:
hi,
i want to submit the <netui:form> along with action form data to
JPF
from the
java script,
i can call the action method from the java script but actionForm
is
not
passing
to JPF....
pls guide me....
vijay
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
Getting back to Vijay's original post - something like the following
should work (I can't confirm this code works since I'm in the middle
of
a build), but I have done this before. Does this not work?
It should
submit the form from javascript, as Vijay requests, passing the field
value to the JPF via the action form.<br>
<br>
<tt><nobr><netui:form tagId="myForm" action="doSomething"></nobr><br>
<nobr> <netui:textBox
dataSource="{actionForm.doSomethingValue}"/></nobr></tt><br>
<tt><nobr> <</nobr><nobr>netui:button value="Submit"
onClick="return doSubmit()"/></nobr><br>
<nobr> <script language="javascript"></nobr><br>
<nobr> function </nobr></tt><tt><nobr>doSubmit</nobr></tt><nobr></nobr><tt><nobr>()</nobr><br>
<nobr> {</nobr><br>
<nobr> var form = document.getElementById(
getNetuiTagName(
"myForm", this ) );<br>
form.method = "post";<br>
form.submit();</nobr><nobr></nobr></tt><tt><nobr></nobr><br>
<nobr> return true;</nobr><br>
<nobr> }</nobr><br>
<nobr> </script></nobr><br>
<nobr></netui:form></nobr></tt><br>
<br>
Steve Hicks wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="[email protected]" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">We have this problem and it seems quite sad that youcan
not perform this (typical)
function using portal. Anyone from BEA watching? Could they do something
about
this in sp3?
"Anant Kadiyala" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:[email protected]"><[email protected]></a>
wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Beware that it is not entirely good idea to have action
url in the Javascript.
I had some problems with it. It works fine when you test it at thepageflow
level.
But when you pull the pageflow into a portlet, it starts acting strange.
The urls
that the portal generates behind the scenes dynamically, get messedup
and you
will notice that the new acion opens in a new browser window and will
not have
the context of the portal.
Although the docs say we could use action urls in Javascript, you might
want to
make sure it works in the portal context.
Anant
"julie" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:[email protected]"><[email protected]></a>
wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">do you still need help making an action url in javascript?
"vijay patel" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:[email protected]"><[email protected]></a>
wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">hi,
i want to submit the <netui:form> along with action form data to
JPF
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">>from the
</pre>
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<pre wrap="">java script,
i can call the action method from the java script but actionForm is
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">not
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">passing
to JPF....
pls guide me....
vijay
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