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WebNavPane - How to set navBar contentURL dynamically client side ?

MarTin — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:21:12 GMT

Hello Jean,

You just need to change childNodes[0] to childNodes[1] for the 2nd childNodes from the end.

Therefore, for 2nd bar:

   var navBarItemFrame = navBarItem.Parent.FrameObj.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[1].childNodes[0].childNodes[1].childNodes[0];

For the 3rd bar:

   var navBarItemFrame = navBarItem.Parent.FrameObj.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[1].childNodes[0].childNodes[2].childNodes[0];

Hope this helps. Thank you.

Regards,
-Martin-

WebNavPane - How to set navBar contentURL dynamically client side ?

JNguimb — Thu, 12 May 2011 02:07:06 GMT

Hello Martin,

Thankyou; your code works great. I am using 5 bars in the Navigation Pane, and I need to be able to update the content of the first three bars (from the top) at runtime. However, the DOM tree in your code, copied below, is for the first bar. I tried to modify in order to access the IFrames of the 2nd and 3rd bars but was unsuccessful. Could you please modify the line below and give me a tree for 2nd bar and a tree for 3rd bar ?

Regards,
Jean

xxxx.Parent.FrameObj.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[1].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0]

WebNavPane - How to set navBar contentURL dynamically client side ?

MarTin — Wed, 11 May 2011 11:56:47 GMT

Hello Jean,

It seems that we don't have SetContentURL() method in WebNavPane. But I do have a workaround for this issue. You are still able to set the content url using the following code:

function DoSetURL()
{
   var navPane = ISGetObject("WebNavPane1");
   var navBarItem = navPane.BarItems.GetNamedItem("navbar_Item1")
   var navBarItemFrame = navBarItem.Parent.FrameObj.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[1].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].childNodes[0]
   navBarItemFrame.src = "http://www.intersoftpt.com";
}

What I did is to obtain the object which WebNavPane is using to set its ContentURL for the navbar item. In this case, I need to get the iFrame of NavBarItem. Therefore, this is how I get into that object. Then, set the src property to implement content url.

Hope this helps. Thank you.

Regards.
-Martin-

WebNavPane - How to set navBar contentURL dynamically client side ?

JNguimb — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:19:23 GMT

Hello Martin,

Thank you for your reply. But this is not what I am looking for. I am looking for the ContentURL, not the TargetURL. In other words, I need the webpage to appear inside the iframe of the NavBar, not in a separate window.

In Pane Manager, I would use WebPaneName.SetContentURL("http://www.Intersoftpt.com") to insert your web page in the iframe of a WebPane. But I am using Navigation Pane here and the SetContentURL method is not available; so how do I insert a web page in the iframe of a NavBar at client side, when the bar is using IFrame ContentMode?

Regards,

Jean

WebNavPane - How to set navBar contentURL dynamically client side ?

MarTin — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:48:58 GMT

Hello Jean,

You can try the following code to set ContentURL using TargetURL property and Click() method.

function ClickBarItem()
{
   var navPane = ISGetObject("WebNavPane1");
   var navBar = navPane.BarItems[0];
   var navBarItem = navBar.Items[0];
   navBarItem.TargetURL = "http://www.intersoftpt.com";
   navBarItem.Click();
}

I refer to VariousClientSideObjectSamples.aspx in WebNavPane. I simply modify one of the NavBarItem and set TargetURL manually from client-side and trigger the item by using Click().

Hope this helps. Thank you.

Regards,
-Martin-

WebNavPane - How to set navBar contentURL dynamically client side ?

JNguimb — Tue, 10 May 2011 01:17:48 GMT

Hello:

How do I set the ContentURL of a WebNavBar, for example "http://www.yahoo.com", on client side at runtime ? I could not find a method in the documentation on how to do this. SetContentURL("xxxxxxx") does not seem to be supported for this control, although IFrame content mode is available.

Would you have a workaround?

Regards,

Jean