I’m trying to do some scripting with combo and an edit box controls on an XPage. Just to know where I am I started with putting some alerts into client-side events:
combo-box: onChange-event:
alert(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);
result: no alert box, but no error either.
edit-box: onKeyUp-event:
alert(this.value);
result: alert returning “undefined”.
I also tried other options:
this.name ==> results in an empty alert
this.type ==> “undefined”
this.length ==> always returns “1”
Looking at the source using Fierbug I see that there’s no event-script tied to neither of the elements.
At the bottom of the source code however, I see 2 JS functions that appear to be corresponding to my client-side scripts. Both are carrying the arguments “thisObj” and “thisEvent”.
But changing “this” to “thisObj” in my scripts doesn’t help either.
Next attempt: using various methods I retrieved the true name of my combo-box select object (“view:_id1:Categories1”). As this appears to be a rather strange name I really didn’t expect that I could use it tp work my way around the “this” keyword, and in fact it didn’t work: the alert simply isn’t executed.
The only thing that works in accessing the combo’s selected value is using something like
document.forms[0].elements[6].options[document.forms[0].elements[6].selecetdIndex].value;
Not really my choice of coding; somehow I feel that I’m thinking to complicated, that accessing the wanted value is much much much easier here.
so the question is: what’s the proper way to access my field values on an XPage while they aren’t saved yet?