XPages - SSJS - multi value fields

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If I have an existing multi value field in the back end, how can I use SSJS to add a value to it? I try this:

Array = DataSource.getItemValue( “FieldName” );

Array.push( NewValue );

DataSource.replaceItemValue( “FieldName”, Array );

And it seems to work the first time, but subsequently goes sideways if you try it multiple times. (like [[OriginalValues, NewValue1], NewValue2] etc)

getItemValueArray shows in the Script Editor under XSP as a method of NotesXSPDocument, but it’s not in the help? Using it does not seem to make much difference?

Does anyone have anything like this working?

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Subject: Do you have a sample you could send on?

Hi Mike,

Do you have a sample of this which you could send on so that we can get to the bottom of this?

REgards,

Paul.

paul_hannan@ie.ibm.com

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Subject: Weird return on getItemValue

I gotta a similar problem.

On the script below it process a getItemValue method:

temp=new Array();

var m=docGrupo.getItemValue(“Members”);

var n=m.elements();

while(n.hasMoreElements())

temp.push(n.nextElement());

docGrupo.replaceItemValue(“Members”, temp.sort());

return true;

But, this script works only when I have just one element in “Members”.

I figure out that getItemValue is returning a Vector of Vectors!

So, I include the following test:

…

while(n.hasMoreElements())

var o=n.nextElement();

if(typeof(o)==“java.util.Vector”){

var p=o.elements();

while(p.hasMoreElements())

  temp.push(p.nextElement());

}else{

temp.push(o);

}

…

Why this is happening?

Is it someking of a bug?