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No Documents Found message in the browser

Hi All,
Anybody know if we can change the default "No Documents Found" message when a view being viewed has no documents in it 9that the currently logged on person can see - there are documents in the view, just not viewable to the current person).

Thanks,
Richard

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Bozzie4

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RichardStarkey

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Hi Tom,
Ideally, I'll show an alternate message something along the lines of "You have no outstanding requests waiting". It looks like the div and javascript would be the best option for that(?) so I'll give it a go now.
Thanks,
Richard

RichardStarkey

ASKER

Hi Tom,
I went with the second option but it does not want to work. It is showing both regardless the viewbody and the text regardless.
Thanks,
Richard

Bozzie4

You should add (in the body tag for instance) a call to the hideView function :

Add this to the OnLoad event of the $$Viewtemplate form

HideView();

cheers,

Tom

p_partha

Put this in the onload:

var h2 = document.getElementsByTagName("h2");
for (var vLoop = 0; vLoop < h2.length; vLoop++){
if (h2[vLoop].childNodes[0].nodeValue == "No documents found"){
h2[vLoop].childNodes[0].nodeValue='You have no outstanding requests waiting.' ;
}
}

RichardStarkey

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Thanks.
I couldn't get Tom's to work but Parta's worked good. The only slight issue I have is with the font size of the message. Is there anyway that can be changed?
Cheers,
Richard

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Bozzie4

Actually, it's the same code, so just calling the function in the onload event works just as well (to be sure, I tested this code, and it works fine. If you call the function, please watch out for UppEr and lowercase. Javascript is sensitive to that. Also, make sure you put the javascript in the correct field (Client/Common javascript or Web/Javascript).
I find it's cleaner to use functions to do this sort of stuff, or you end up with a completely cluttered code. If you use functions, you can move the code to a javascript library, and re-use it easily in other $$viewtemplates or even normal forms.

Anyway - for the font size of the message :

Just add html or style information to the <div> tag :
<div id="msg" style="font-size: 9px"> --> As pass-thru HTML
Your message. --> As standard text
</div> --> As pass-thru HTML

OR don't mark the "Your Message" as html, and do markup in Notes (OR mark it as html, and add font tags)

<div id="msg"> --> As pass-thru HTML
Your message. --> As standard text
</div> --> As pass-thru HTML

cheers,

Tom