Legacy Action buttons do not appear on web, even with nothing set to hide them

  • I have been forced to abandon XPages completely and attempt to vet this application using old technology. To that end, the Form loads just fine, but the Action buttons do not appear, or appear without apparent rhyme or reason. One Form has eight buttons, and I’ve removed every single hide-when/preview/editing condition, so all eight should appear 100% of the time. But only two show up.

  • The two that show up are custom buttons, not the system default ones. Some of the buttons that do not show up are also custom buttons, however, so it’s not just that the default system buttons won’t appear. Many of them won’t.

  • I searched here and found nothing about this. Dunno if it’s an R8.x thing, or something that’s been around for decades. I’ve never actually used the default Action bar in my entire life.

Anything would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time…

Subject: do the non-appearing buttons have LotusScript behind them?

since LS doesn’t excecute on the web, those buttons aren’t rendered (is my guess).

Subject: Use JS was turned off…

  • Thanks Maureen! Formula buttons were not appearing that should have, because I did not have “Use JavaScript when generating pages” enabled. I was a-hopin’ marking it solved would prevent anyone from taking time to respond. Musta been too slow. Sorry…