Couple of question on custom_instantiation.cfg for a WFM

In legacy we did a customization in wft that when user initiate a workflow in the iw-bin/iw_cgi_wrapper.cgi/iwwft_instantiator.cgi screen we have set of widgets.

In this when user select the browse button a new window will open and list of values will populate from database and display and when user click on select on specified list the value will come and display in Text box.

We are trying to achive same functionality in Custom_Instantiate.cfg but when I am selecting the value in the value is not coming to Textbox. I am not sure I am doing in right way or not.

Please find the below functionality from WFT and WFM (Custom_instantiate form)

function show_${field}_win() {

var newsletter_type = getSelectedValue(this.iwwft_instantiator.nl_type);

var country_folder = getSelectedValue(this.iwwft_instantiator.country_folder);

var url = "http://${server_name}:8080/IWInterwoven/webengine/iw/ui/IWISelectNewsletters?iw_form_name=iwwft_instantiator&iw_item_name=dcr&newsletterType="+ newsletter_type + "&countryCode=" + country_folder + "&command=IW";

document.domain = "bvasndd03.ilg.ad";

newwin = window.open(url,"", "height=500,width=650,resizable,scrollbars");

}

<tr>

<tr>

Select...

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</td>

</tr>

</table>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

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Same functionality trying to achive in WFM (Custom Instantiate form)

<![CDATA[

IWEventRegistry.addFormHandler("onFormInit", init);

function init()

{

IWEventRegistry.addItemHandler("/Config/News_letter_DB","onCallout",news_letter);

}

function news_letter(item){

var item1 = IWDatacapture.getItem("/Config/Newsletter");

var newsletter_type= item1.getOptions()[item1.getValue()].value;

var item2 = IWDatacapture.getItem("/Config/Region");

var country_folder= item2.getOptions()[item2.getValue()].value;

var url= window.open("http://bvasndd04.ilg.ad:8080/IWInterwoven/webengine/iw/ui/IWISelectNewsletters?iw_form_name=iwwft_instantiator&iw_item_name=dcr&newsletterType="+ newsletter_type + "&countryCode=" + country_folder + "&command=IW");

document.domain = "bvasndd04.ilg.ad";

newwin = window.open(url,"", "height=500,width=650,resizable,scrollbars");

}

]]>

</script>

<label>Please select Newsletter</label>

<text >

</text>

</item>

Please check and let us know how can we achieve this in WFM..... I can provide more details if anybody needs.

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Rick Poulin

If I understood the problem correctly, your dialog opens but won't correctly save the value in the instantiation field? If so, the problem is not with your FormAPI but with the implementation of your dialog. Where you previously probably went direct to the form field, now you'd want to call top.opener.getScriptFrame().IWDatacapture.getItem("some path").setValue(). The "some path" should be passed to the dialog in your window.open() call.

gopi123

I am not sure how to call in the windows.open function.

Please find attached the screen shots of whole functionality . After user click on browse button the window will open with list of values retrieve from Database and correcsponding select button will be there and when user click on select the values should set in Textbox in custom_instantiate form.

Please attach the screnn shot for understanding the functionality.

Rick Poulin

Yep, pretty sure I understood the expected functionality. What didn't you understand about my answer?

gopi123

Thanks for understanding.

I did not get how to use the top.opener.getScriptFrame().IWDatacapture.getItem("some path").setValue(). The "some path" should be passed to the dialog in your window.open() call.

Can you explain in detail or else can you tell me how to pass the selected value to a textbox in a dialog from windows.open().....

Thanks for your help!!!!!

Adam Stoller

gopi123 wrote:
Thanks for understanding.

I did not get how to use the top.opener.getScriptFrame().IWDatacapture.getItem("some path").setValue(). The "some path" should be passed to the dialog in your window.open() call.

Can you explain in detail or else can you tell me how to pass the selected value to a textbox in a dialog from windows.open().....

If the information isn't already being passed in a form variable (did you check?) you could simply pass it yourself as a parameter like you're passing everything else on the URL - i.e. something like:

.... + "xpath=/Config/foo/bar"

Then you would use top.opener.getScriptFrame().IWDatacapture.getItem(xpath).setValue(...);

vishal11

When you do window.open, you are basically passing parameters to some jsp/php etc file.

So in form api, call window.open and pass parameters to a jsp(say) file.

something like

window.open("/iw-cc/bigd/templating/callouts/jsp/test.jsp?firstName="+fname+"&firstValue=" + fvalue + "&locale=" + locale + "&isKey=" + isKey + "&itemName=" + item.getName() + "&valueItemName=" + itemValName + "","browse",'scrollbars=yes,width=600,height=500,location=yes');

document.callout_form.key.length->gives you the no of options (say if its 50 checkboxes,then returns 50)in the window.

Now loop through this and get the values in an array/hashmap

finally get the values you want to pass to the field in your dct.

var testname= requst.getParameter(itemName);//get the values passed from formapi

window.opener.top.api.setvalue(testname,value1_from_array,value2_from_array);

setvalue method you will define in form api.

something like

function setvalue(itemName,id,elementValue,value) 
{   
var item = IWDatacapture.getItem(itemName); 
var itemval = IWDatacapture.getItem(elementValue);  
var contentType = getContentType();
var containerName = "";
var fieldName = ""; 
            item.setValue(id);      
            itemval.setValue(value);            
            item.setReadOnly(true);     

return true;
}

Hope this help.