Sorry, my mistake,  I'm about to leave for more than a week therefore I'm trying to do everything in the same time

Edited by Hobby001 - Mar 31 2019 at 10:34pm

The code can be adapted to your needs, but remember, Hobby001 is also a volunteer (like all of us). Thank you

Sometime it's harder to understand the question than to answer it.

Edited by Hobby001 - Apr 01 2019 at 1:29pm

Hi All,

I thought I would continue this thread as a sort of tutorial.  The Admins can move it there if they see fit.  I spent a lot of time getting this stuff to work with the help of the Hobby001. I’d like to try and give something back.

I learned quite a bit about how to do things in a code-block –

1. How to write a code block – easy enough
2. How to call it – quite tricky, but thanks to the good explanation from Hobby001 it worked!  I was calling the code block from a “myButton”.  When the button was pressed, the validation would occur. But I needed set this up properly under the “Link” section of the myButton. (See his nice screen shot a few responses back.)
3. How to get a simple “if” statement to work –more difficult than it should have been
4. How to get input from a text page -- this was truly a “eureka” moment. I don’t know if it’s my inexperience with JavaScript…
5. How to call another web-page. This was initially quite easy, but then took a turn when it wouldn’t work after being published.

The code-block is supposed to get a value from a drop-down list and call a corresponding web page if the input field or password is valid.  Note that in the example below, I don’t check for a password (myInputField) for the secondd drop-down element.

    if ( $('myDropDownList select').val()=='1'
        && $('myInputField’).val() =='1') {
        window.location = 'situation1.htm';                    
    } else if ( $('myDropDownList  select').val()=='2') {
        window.location = 'situation2.htm';
    } else {
        window.location =  'page25.htm';
    }
} 

 

I learned that I could not use my fieldnames and needed to use the code ID’s, i.e. “WE” field names.  Then, to get input from “myInputField”, JavaScript needed the “input” parameter.  Finally, to switch to a new web-page, the “windows.location=<page name> worked fine in “Preview” mode. But when I transferred it to the actual web-server, I kept getting 404 errors. To get around this I could specify the entire page address, i.e. c:\aaa\bbb\www\page25.htm.  But then I found that this trick would work - OE.Navigate.open(event,'situation2.htm',1).

 

Final version of the code:

function gotoMyCodeBlock (){
    if ( $('#WE9d9b5e5188 select').val()=='1'
        && $('#WE3ba56be448 input').val() =='1') {
            OE.Navigate.open(event,'situation1.htm',1)
    } else if ( $('#WE9d9b5e5188 select').val()=='2') {
        OE.Navigate.open(event,'situation2.htm',1)
    } else {
        OE.Navigate.open(event,'page25.htm',1)
    }
}

HTH,

uzes90