xPages: Combobox with "Refresh choices on document refresh". How ?

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Subject: xPages: Combobox with "Refresh choices on document refresh". How ?

Feedback Type: Question

Product Area: Domino Designer on Eclipse (DDE)

Technical Area: Functionality

Platform: Windows XP client

Release: 8.5

Reproducible: Not applicable

Hi,

I am testing the new xPages and they are great :-)

However I can!t get a simple combobox with "Refresh choices on document refresh" to work.

On my form (xPage with a data source "Document" called "Doc1") i have two comboboxes.
The first one ("ProjectName") gets its values from the following formula "@DbColumn("","Projects",1);". And this works !

The second on should offer different values based on the selection of the previous combobox.
It has this formula: "@DbLookup("","Projects",Doc1.getItemValueString("ProjectName"),2);"

The first combobox has the onChange-Event set to perform a "Partial Update" on the second combobox. (I also tried a full update with same result.)

But my second combobox is always empty. :-(

If I do the Lookup with a hard-coded key value, then it works. So its not a problem with the view or the Lookup syntax. Rather the code "Doc1.getItemValueString("ProjectName")" seems not to return the current value from the first field.

Is this approach wrong ?
If I try to put the code "Doc1.getItemValueString("ProjectName")" into a computed field, it does not display the value correctly. Do i have to save the document first ?
I am using only server-side scripts, does this have to be done with "client side" code ?

Thank you for any help.
Or could you point me to a working example somewhere ?

Bye Lars

Feedback number WEBB7QUU7Q created by ~Ethan Frofoomanikle on 04/06/2009

Status: Open
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