Web User Control Documentation

Hi all!

I've followed the steps to create a user control per Online Help: created an HTML web page, JavaScript, CSS, etc. I've also imported my .html file via Edit -> Web User Control Assets. I added it to a test form and it rendered in both the ClickOnce client and the web client, cool.

Where I'm completely lost is how to integrate it into Syteline so it acts like any other control.

All Online Help says is this:

"Do whatever else that might be required to integrate the user control with the data from the form.

This might include data binding, form scripting, or whatever else is necessary to push and pull data between the form and the user control.

For calls from the form to the user control, you can use the PostUserControlMessage scripting API and/or a form event handler with the response type Invoke User Control.

For calls from the user control back to the form, you can use JavaScript API methods such as WSForm.getCompValue, WSForm.setCompValue, WSForm.getVarValue, WSForm.setVarValue, WSForm.invoke, WSForm.generate, WSForm.subscribe, WSForm.UserControl.registerListener, MG.onReady, and MG.generateServerEvent."

My problem is, I can't find documentation for any of this. I'm specifically interested in data binding, as all I really did was create a specialized textbox. Anyone know where I can find more info?

* CSI 9.00.30

* Hosted (non-cloud)

* Reference: https://csi901.inforcloudsuite.com/syteline/language/en-us/kjb1475099684524.html

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BradleyBrown

Go to https://mongoose.infor.com and click on the Learn link at the top.

On the left click Documentation and then Mongoose Doc 9.02. Click the third link from the bottom of that list, "Using The Web User Control".

This PDF document will take you through coding a web user control to interact with a form without using a code assembly. If you need to use a code assembly for some reason the process isn't too much different. Good luck.

unknown

Thanks Bradley, this is definitely a step in the right direction. It's helpful to have an example of some of these things.

I'm wondering if there's MSDN-style documentation for these API calls though? The example uses some of the examples that are given in the Online Help document, but it'd be nice to see the whole picture.

unknown

It's possible to use standard web development tools in a browser to add breakpoints, debug, and do some what-if experiments on how to use features like these callback javascript routines.

If you want to feedback on the documents you can follow the url below and on the bottom of the page is a clickable link allowing you to email feedback.

docs.infor.com/.../default.html

BradleyBrown

Ah Lee, excellent! I've been on the docs site I don't know how many times and never realized that option was down there. Nitty-gritty details on web user controls have always been a bit light on the ground. I'll go and give some feedback here soon.

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