topic Re: Share Action Form with Hidden Fields in Alfresco Archive

Share Action Form with Hidden Fields

eamell — Thu, 02 May 2013 19:25:03 GMT

I have an Alfresco server side action and I have a Share action associated with it. There are 4 parameters to the action; 2 required and 2 optional. Instead of showing the fields and letting the user enter them I am doing a database query and displaying a table that will allow the user to select a

Re: Share Action Form with Hidden Fields

zladuric — Thu, 02 May 2013 20:38:12 GMT

Hi,

So you need to trigger the event? You could fire a desired event from JS, like

YAHOO.Bubbling.fire('eventName')‍

.

But you can also try firing the form validation manually. You can use the

Re: Share Action Form with Hidden Fields

eamell — Thu, 02 May 2013 20:46:25 GMT

Just for completeness I was able to find my own solution. It was really quite simple (which I figured it would be). YUI has an event simulator, which is limited for YUI 2.x but still offers what I needed.

First of all there are 2 events that trigger validation on the form: propertychange and keyup. Property change would probably make the most sense but I didn't find a way to trigger that so I am working with keyup. YUI 2.x offers the class YAHOO.util.UserAction which allows some user actions to be simulated; in this case there is a method keyup which simulates the keyup event on the object sent to it. So I changed my JavaScript function as follows:

<javascript>
    function setHiddenFieldValue(fieldName, fieldValue) {
        var field = YAHOO.util.Dom.get(localThis.fieldNamePrefix + fieldName);
        field.value = fieldValue;
        YAHOO.util.UserAction.keyup(field);
    }
</javascript>

This didn't work at first because <javascript>YAHOO.util.UserAction</javascript> wasn't available so I added the following to my custom config:


    <config>
       <dependencies>
          <js src="yui/event-simulate/event-simulate.js" />
          <js src="components/com/microstrat/something/createSomething.js" />
       </dependencies>
    </config>
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The second script reference was already there and contains my

setHiddenFieldValue()‍

method (as well as other code). The only thing I don't like is that the event-simulate.js is included rather than conditionally including event-simulate.js or event-simulate-min.js depending on the value of debug.

Re: Share Action Form with Hidden Fields

eamell — Thu, 02 May 2013 20:51:00 GMT

Doesn't <javascript>YAHOO.Bubbling.fire()</javascript> fire system wide events rather than control specific events?

You also didn't finish your sentence on firing the form validation manually; although I found a way I would be interested in knowing other ways.

Thanks!

Re: Share Action Form with Hidden Fields

zladuric — Thu, 02 May 2013 21:32:51 GMT

Basically I was going to say about the keyup event, but the answer ran away