Onchange event - want to change another field in web based form Notes 6.5
I have an online form in Lotus Notes 6.5 that was developed by someone else and I am trying to make changes to it. It has one field, System, that is a dialog box of choices. The field has an Onchange event in which other sections of the form are displayed or hidden.
I added a new section in the Onchange Javascript that will have a link to a URL. The URL will pass a parameter which should be the system, like www.xxxxxx.com?system=ZZZZZZ.
I have tried having the link as Computed Text but that doesn't seem to work since the document is not being saved or refreshed.
I read some ideas and tried checking "Refresh fields on keyword change". But that just made the hidden fields display briefly before going away, so I set that back.
I tried calculating the value of the URL in the Onchange event for System. I know it works since the field is correct after the document is saved but if I try to put a field in the new link section that has the value of this calculated field, it doesn't load since I make it a computed field.
How can I get the URL link to be dynamic based on the value of the System field?
Thanks!
I added a new section in the Onchange Javascript that will have a link to a URL. The URL will pass a parameter which should be the system, like www.xxxxxx.com?system=ZZZZZZ.
I have tried having the link as Computed Text but that doesn't seem to work since the document is not being saved or refreshed.
I read some ideas and tried checking "Refresh fields on keyword change". But that just made the hidden fields display briefly before going away, so I set that back.
I tried calculating the value of the URL in the Onchange event for System. I know it works since the field is correct after the document is saved but if I try to put a field in the new link section that has the value of this calculated field, it doesn't load since I make it a computed field.
How can I get the URL link to be dynamic based on the value of the System field?
Thanks!
You can retrieve the selected value from a dialog (in onChange) by:
v = this[this.selectedIndex].t
v = this[this.selectedIndex].v
FYI: I'm using 'this' to reference the current field.
The url would then be:
'www.xxxxxx.com?system' + v
v = this[this.selectedIndex].t
v = this[this.selectedIndex].v
FYI: I'm using 'this' to reference the current field.
The url would then be:
'www.xxxxxx.com?system' + v
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It looks like to get that link on the form that I need to insert a hotspot. I had no luck with this and finally just tried to insert a hotspot for URL, entering http://www.yahoo.com. That did not even show as a link on the form and the view source didn't even show it at all. Is there some overall form setting that is preventing hotspots from appearing on the web page? I could not seem to find one. We have very few web enabled databases at our site so no real examples to check out here.
Once I get past this and format the URL like you suggest, I am still a little unclear about what will be in the Javascript function, how the function will know to display the field. Thanks for being so responsive.
Once I get past this and format the URL like you suggest, I am still a little unclear about what will be in the Javascript function, how the function will know to display the field. Thanks for being so responsive.
You will probably need to add HTML to the form, and set it to passthru-HTML (a text property).
Try first with
<a href="www.yahoo.com">click here for Yahoo</a>
Ah, there was a typo in the code in my earlier post: it should have read href="#"
Try first with
<a href="www.yahoo.com">click here for Yahoo</a>
Ah, there was a typo in the code in my earlier post: it should have read href="#"
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I am just not strong enough in Lotus Notes on the web to get the link to have a variable parameter. I will have to approach this differently. I will award points based on your help, thanks!
An example:
document.form[0].fieldX.va
Can you show us some code, because we can give much better answers when we don't have to guess or assume.