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Mike in DeLand
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I would like to use the accordion control as follows:

The accordion control is on the left of the HTML page, much like in MS Outlook. Then there is 1 big frame on the page to the right of the accordion control. That's where my reports will display. Inside each accordion page I put a button that runs a different report in the big frame when you click on it. So far everything works great.

Now, I want to find a way to have the report re-displayed when I change accordion tabs, ie without having to click the button that's inside. Then I would be able to make the button invisible, and the report frame would update when the user clicks to a different accordion page.

I looked at the accordion control and see that is has a piece called "BiAccordionButton-11", so I coded up a click function in the HTML, and had that call the click method of the plain button I added. Page would not load after that, and it just gets worse from here.

Any ideas?

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David Glick
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You can use the following function to get a handle on the accordion:

//Begin function button3_onclick
function button3_onclick(ctrl) {
var acc = GetBindowsComponentById("accordion1");
acc.selectNextPage();
}


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Mike in DeLand
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Thanks for the reply, but I'm not sure this is what I need. What I want is for the report frame to refresh when I click to the next accordion page. Your solution sounds like when I click on my own button (button3 in your post) it will go to the next accordion page. I might not have explained the original problem very well.


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Francis Mariani
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David,

I would really like to know where this is documented:
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You can use the following function to get a handle on the accordion - GetBindowsComponentById("accordion1");


Francis


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David Glick
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It is not documented yet because we will be creating an API wrapper around it and that will be documented.

This function will get a handle on the accordion. Then you can pursue ideas on the report refresh interaction.


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Mike in DeLand
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Thanks David.

Looks like we'll have to wait for that feature. For now, I'm using the tab tool in the html composter.


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Francis Mariani
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David,

Thanks for letting us know.

But I have to say I don't enjoy reading about a function here in FocalPoint that is not documented anywhere. We've been told that there is no documentation about the internal functions because we don't need to know about them. Once in a while an I.B. expert throws us a lifeline, but it's not documented. This seems a bit arbitrary...

Regards,


Francis


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David Glick
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Hi Guys,

I'm told we did expose this as an API function called IbComposer_getComponentById. I will verify it once I get in the office.


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njsden
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IbComposer_getComponentById

I've used that JavaScript function in "regular" pages built with HTML composer, not the RIA-styled ones (Bindows) but if all is needed is an element's id from the DOM then that function should work just the same.


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Francis Mariani
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Several IbComposer functions are documented in Designing a User Interface for a Web Application With the HTML Composer > Using JavaScript Code With HTML Composer Pages, so I'm a slightly happier camper!


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