How to modify the container for JSP's to carryout validations and customizations

vsoman1984

Hi All,

Having carried out the major bulk of cuztomizations on the Java Behaviour class as well as JSP ends , i am heading towards the final phase of my requirements Heart felt thanks to the community and senior members for your support.

My final task at hand is validation as well as customizing the container that contains my custom JSP's.The below shown is my custom page i have placed inside a container.

The area i am unclear about is where is the location of this container that contains this customized JSP of mine.Where do i need to make the change so that the Title on Top "Quickflow: -- Webpage Dialog" (encircled) is changed to "My Custom Functionality: -- Webpage Dialog".Also how can i replace the name "Quickflow" seen inside the container but out side the page (in grey background)?

The "OK" and "Cancel" buttons encircled here is for my doubt regarding Validation. I observed a similar container and JSP setup for "Create New Folder" functionality.There when the user clicks on the 'Next' button (seen where the OK & Cancel buttons are seen here) without entering the folder name, the validation comes in play after the page refresh and in place of the asterix beside the text box for foldername, the message "Folder name is compulsory pprears". As seen in the image i have provided i have employed a similar asterix by the following line in my JSP

<dmf:requiredfieldvalidator name="<%=DummyComponent.PROJECTNAME_VALIDATOR%>" controltovalidate="<%=DummyComponent.PROJECTNAME_TEXT_CONTROL_NAME%>" nlsid="Provide Name!!"/>

I want to have such a validation check when i click on a link "Send To Web Service" on the same page as seen in the image above (not visible here ..but seen on scroll down of the actual page). Now evidently for New Folder Creation the validation check is trigerred on the click of the "Next" button of the container. But i am unable to obtain or see what renders the components (Ok/Cancel/Next buttons etc)seen outside of my JSP page .

I have gone trough quite a few articles regarding WDK validations. But the sequence of steps to be carried out ; whether validator functions calling from Java behavious class are compulsory ? Whether tags like dmf:requiredfieldvalidator in the JSP alone will do the trick for validations with no changes in Java code? are few of the questions still unclear to me.

I hope my long query is lucid Do feel free to ask for clarifications. I am hoping for your help to see me through this phase of customizations.

Thank You

Regards

Vishnu S

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dnvhariprasad

Due to the timezone changes I am unable to reply you yesterday..

Actually validate() method is inherited from control class. You can use it any where.

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vsoman1984

Hi All,

One of the observations i have made while working around the application "by chance" is that the validation gets called when the page is refreshed.

In the same above setup , when i click on the "Select Files" link on the left and add a document into my datagrid like Similar to the "QuickFlow" functionality, the container gets refreshed on the click of the OK button. As a result the validation line i have added gets called and in place of the asterix i am able to see the message "yyProvide Name!!yy".

Now i am trying to figure out how to refresh this page when i click the link which passes the user entered values to my behaviour class or simulate a similar functionality.

Would really value your suggestions.

The function onSelectDocuments is the function that gets called when the Select Files link is clicked.The following is the code:

public void onSelectDocuments(Control control, ArgumentList args) { this.m_bSelectingDocuments = true;ArgumentList myargs =new ArgumentList();

myargs.add("multiselect", "true");

Iterator itDocIds =this.m_docIdLookup.keySet().iterator();String strDocIds =""; while (itDocIds.hasNext() == true) { if (strDocIds.length() > 0) {strDocIds = strDocIds +',';}

strDocIds = strDocIds + (String) itDocIds.next();

System.out.println("STRDOCIDS " + strDocIds); }

myargs.add("selectedobjectids", strDocIds);

setComponentNested("wfsysobjectlocatorcontainer", myargs, getContext(),new FormActionReturnListener(this, "onReturnFromDocuments")); }

The setComponentNested is the function that results in refreshing the conatiner once the documents have been selected. I need a similar refresher so that my validations are read.

Would really value your suggestions as to how to implement this feature.

Thanks & Regards

VishnuS

dnvhariprasad

I did not go through in detail of your post but what I understand is you need to validate your controls.

You can validate your controls in your container class onOK method. Refer the following examples. When you call getIsValid and validate() method, all the validator controls will fire.

public void onOk(Control button, ArgumentList args){validate();boolean bValid = getIsValid();if (bValid == false){return;} //do checkin logic}

dnvhariprasad

You can modify the title of the container using the below code

<dmf:title><dmf:label nlsid='MSG_TITLE' />: <dmf:label nlsid='MSG_OBJECT' /></dmf:title>

Find the above lines in your container and then change them accordingly.

vsoman1984

Hi Hari,

Thanks for your reply. I was able to modify the name of the container ny following your suggestion.

Moving on to the validation part. Will it be possible to simulate the onOk like function on the click of a link inside my JSP page so that i can fire the validations.

Currently on my JSP page, i have a link which when clicked will pull in all the user entered values on the page and send it over to my behavious class.It is here that i want to check my validations. The Ok button of my container is currently disabled.

vsoman1984

Hi Hari,

I am rephrasing my question .Will modifying the link inside my JSP to have the validation check as seen below ensure validation? I have just ported the onOk code you gave to my onClick.

public void onClickFromMyJsp(Control control, ArgumentList args) { validate();

boolean bValid = getIsValid(); if (bValid == false) {

return; }

else { // code to carryout operations with user entered values once the bValid gets true.

}

Thanks and Regards

Vishnu

vsoman1984

Hi Hari,

I carried out the code change i have mentioned above and it worked ! . It seems that the validate functionality used with the OK functionality also works with any other function seamlesly.

Thank You again

Vishnu S

dnvhariprasad

Due to the timezone changes I am unable to reply you yesterday..

Actually validate() method is inherited from control class. You can use it any where.