How do i refer to my ux window's title in javascript?

[WindForce]

Hi
In javascript validations, I need to check for the 5 leftmost characters in my UX's (it's in a popup window) title. How do i do that?
Thanks!
Jaime

[Michael1954]

Re: How do i refer to my ux window's title in javascript?

Jaime

I am not sure I understand what you mean.

Again you are looking for an element and instead of setting it's value you are using Javascript to get the 5 left characters.

Can you send me a screen shot.

Do you mean Window Title?

You can use Javascript substring

var str = "Hello world!";
var res = str.substring(1,4);

First you need to get the element id of what you call UX Title and then use substring; Javascript counts from zero in this situation.


Michael

[WindForce]

Re: How do i refer to my ux window's title in javascript?

Thanks Michael
I do know how to use the substr in javascript.
What I need is how do I refer to the window title? When I call my ux from the grid, I set it's window title to something specific, I need to catch that value from within the ux

[Michael1954]

Re: How do i refer to my ux window's title in javascript?

This code sets the title

if(!currWindow) {
currWindow = GRID1_GridObj.createWindow(windowName,'modal-resizable',
{
body: {
content: {
type: 'blank',
elementId: '~'
}
},
height: '',
width: '',
title: {
html: 'XYZ_123', My Title to be easy to search for.
location: 'top',
direction: 'ltr',
show: true
},

I then thought this would get what you want

var title = document.getElementsByTagName('title')[0].innerHTML;
$('frameTitle').innerHTML = title;

Again I used a span to print what I had found in "title"

Unfortunately nothing was returned. I was expecting XYZ_123

The title is there to be seen unfortunalely I don't understand the elementId: '~'

Good luck

[WindForce]

Re: How do i refer to my ux window's title in javascript?

Is that the code that gets generated when running the action "open an ux to add/edit current record in grid"? Cause that's what I used to open the ux. When running that action, in the properties for the ux popup window, I can set the title. Now I would like from inside the ux to check that title for some value ...

[Michael1954]

Re: How do i refer to my ux window's title in javascript?

When you run the component you can view source by right clicking.

If you use a title that is not common control F (crtl) and find it.

[Clipper87]

Re: How do i refer to my ux window's title in javascript?

You have to get a pointer to the window title using getElementById & then check the innerhtml. If you used auto to name the window then you'll have to find out via Firebug otherwise it will be yourwindowname.TITLE.TEXT

wn1.png wn2.png

[WindForce]

Re: How do i refer to my ux window's title in javascript?

Ok what i did is enter <span id=myWindow>My title here</span> as window title for the ux.
Inside the ux, i can then getElementById(myWindow) and retrieve the innerhtml from there. It works great!

Many thanks guys
Jaime

[Clipper87]

Re: How do i refer to my ux window's title in javascript?

You should not have to enter another span just a name is OK , Alpha adds the span for you: check your window with Firebug and you'll see it!

[Davidk]

Re: How do i refer to my ux window's title in javascript?

It may be a little bit safer to add your own span id if you're going after the title in this manner. If you had two buttons on your grid and they each opened a UX in a window then each window would get an Alpha span id of A5dlg0.TITLE.TEXT. Note the number at the end of A5dlg. It's sequential and get assigned first come first served.

So... you've got two buttons opening UX1 and UX2.

Today you open UX1 and it gets assigned A5dlg0.TITLE.TEXT. You note that and go after it's innerHTML as $('A5dlg0.TITLE.TEXT').innerHTML
Then you open UX2 and it get assigned A5dlg1.TITLE.TEXT. You don't need it's title and so all it good.

Tomorrow you open UX2 first and it gets assigned A5dlg0.TITLE.TEXT.
Then you open UX1 and it gets assigned A5dlg1.TITLE.TEXT. Your code is going after $('A5dlg0.TITLE.TEXT').innerHTML and fails.

Just for fun, another way is to grab a bunch of objects like this...

var pObj = {dialog.object}.getTopParentObject(); // gets the grid object
var wObj = pObj.getWindow('MYUXWINDOW'); // the NAME of your UX... not the Title.  This gets the UX object... the child of the grid.
var windowTitle = wObj.getWindowId('title');
var currTitle = $(windowTitle+'.TEXT').innerHTML;
var partTitle = currTitle.substring(0,5);