Placing var Value into DCT field

In the following snippet - I'm correctly getting all my values
and forming a href the way I want. However, I'm now having one **** of a time trying to get the value of var pm into the DCT field whose item is pm - as you can see below the two commented out lines using getElementbyId didn't work - I thought that would be the winner - any suggestions would be great. Also - I'm kind of surprised that the value attritbute can't be used with the text tag?

Here's my js/form api code:

function init()
{
IWEventRegistry.addItemHandler("/misc", "onItemChange", selectedValue);
selectedValue(IWDatacapture.getItem("/misc"));
}

function selectedValue(item)
{

var typeItem = IWDatacapture.getItem("/misc");
var typeIndex = typeItem.getValue();
var myname = item.getOptions()[typeItem.getValue()].value;
var mytext = item.getOptions()[typeItem.getValue()].text;
var pm = "<a href ='/sc?bio="+myname+"'>"+mytext+"</a>";

//document.dcreditForm.pm.value = pm;

//document.getElementById('pm').value = pm;

window.alert(myname);

window.alert(pm);

IWDatacapture.redraw();
}

init();

Here is my simple DCT - two fields:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE datacapture SYSTEM "datacapture5.0.dtd">
<data-capture-requirements type="content" name="testdct">

<ruleset name="test">

<description>
A product description
</description>

<item name="misc" rowcontinue="f">
<label>misc</label>
<description></description>
<inline command="d:/iw-home/Interwoven/TeamSite/iw-perl/bin/iwperl.exe d:/iw-home/Interwoven/TeamSite/httpd/iw-bin/inline_get_help_type.ipl"/>
</item>

<item name="pm">
<text required="t" size="40" />
</item>
<script language="javascript" location="template-type" src="shoescript.js"/>

</ruleset>
</data-capture-requirements>

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Bubas_IWOV

Hi,

The way i would do it is like this:

function init()
{
IWEventRegistry.addItemHandler("/misc", "onItemChange", selectedValue);

}

function selectedValue()
{

var typeItem = IWDatacapture.getItem("/misc");
var typeIndex = typeItem.getValue();
var myname = item.getOptions()[typeItem.getValue()].value;
var mytext = item.getOptions()[typeItem.getValue()].text;
var pm = "<a href ='/sc?bio="+myname+"'>"+mytext+"</a>";

//document.dcreditForm.pm.value = pm;

//document.getElementById('pm').value = pm;

window.alert(myname);

window.alert(pm);

IWDatacapture.redraw();
}

init();

I may be wrong but give it a try.

Bruno

Migrateduser

Thanks - I had something very similiar to this - however - the only way I get the values is by passing them into the function - via the selectedValue(IWDatacapture.getItem("/misc")) line.

However - the values I can grab fine - it's just I want to place the a href which I've formed into my item text field which is called pm

Bubas_IWOV

Ok, got you now, so you want to setup the href inside of the item pm, sorry my mistake.

Try this inside of your function:

function init()
{
IWEventRegistry.addItemHandler("/misc", "onItemChange", selectedValue);
selectedValue(IWDatacapture.getItem("/misc"));
}

function selectedValue(item)
{

var typeItem = IWDatacapture.getItem("/misc");
var typeIndex = typeItem.getValue();
var typepm = IWDatacapture.getItem("/pm");
var myname = item.getOptions()[typeItem.getValue()].value;
var mytext = item.getOptions()[typeItem.getValue()].text;
var pm = "<a href ='/sc?bio="+myname+"'>"+mytext+"</a>";

//document.dcreditForm.pm.value = pm;

//document.getElementById('pm').value = pm;

window.alert(myname);

window.alert(pm);

typepm.setValue(pm);

IWDatacapture.redraw();
}

init();

This should do the job.

B

Migrateduser

Awesome - works like a charm! - by proof of concept is complete - now to move on and use the real-deal data and processes!

Thanks a million!

Bubas_IWOV

Glad i could help.
B