instance refresh

> Hi All,
>  
> I have a page with a view on a instance, which i like to refresh every 5
> seconds.
>  
> I have now done this with use of the following javascript:
>  
> <script>
>     function submit() {
>      var button = document.getElementById(id);
>      //button.click(); ONLY WORKS IN IE
>      xformsFireEvents(
>       new Array(xformsCreateEventArray(button, "DOMActivate", null)));
>      setTimeout("submit()", 5000);
>     }
>  
>     setTimeout("submit()", 5000);
>     var id = "sub"
> </script>
>  
> and an hidden xforms:submit:
>  
> <div style="display:none">
>    <xforms:submit submission="retrieve-instance" ev:event="DOMActivate"
> id="sub">
>         <xforms:label>test</xforms:label>
>    </xforms:submit>
> </div>
>  
>  
>  
> Although it works, i think its a bit ugly. Anybody knows a "cleaner" way
> of doing this ?
>  
> Thanks in advance,
>  Pepijn
>
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> Hi,
>  
> i saerch the forum for just this case - fire xform-events by client-side
> javascript.
> Is there a solution to do that right now?
>  
> For more details, i'll try to explain MY problem:
> OK, i'm devolping a database application for a project. Searching
> for information gives the user back results in more than 1 step.
>  
> 1. The user gets a list with all available search results that may suit
> his search-term. The topic and the document id.
> 2. By clicking the topic the user should get the whole document, but
> there should also be some links inside which
> a) refer to web-links, b) to some detail information that should only be
> opend at a popup
>  
> Normally i would surround those links with an <a href="">-tag and call
> there a script to open a new window or a popup.
> The problem i'm having is, that i need the xforms-submission to retrieve
> the document or the detail information from my exist-db, tranform it
> with some xslt-sheet and display the data within my application. So
> linking the documents internal with a stylesheet won't work, i have to
> do this also by xpl and therefore need the submission i think, or am i
> wrong?
>  
> Other solutions or possibilites?
> Thanks, Marcus

> Marcus,
>
> Did you look at this section:
>
> http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/reference-xforms-ng#xforms-javascript-events
>
> But wouldn't xforms:load work for this? You can write:
>
> <xforms:load resource="{dynamically compute resource here}"
>              xxforms:target="my-target"/>
>
> and run this when the user presses a trigger.
>
> -Erik
>

> Hi Erik,
> i'll have a look at this section now and perhaps that will do.
> I think that the xforms:load doesn't fullfill my needs, because the
> trigger would be the link by itself!
> Just like on the most search-pages, the results are always href-links,
> but in my case i need the IDs saved in the data to refer to other
> resources, which i have to load from the db.
>
> BTW, is there a way to define "my-target" in your example code as a
> popup window, just i could do in javascript? open.window(...) and
> deactivate all browser menus i.e.?
> That would be great at another place where i could need this option!
>
> Thanks,
> Marcus
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Bruchez" <[hidden email]>
> To: <[hidden email]>
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 8:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [ops-users] instance refresh
>
>
>> Marcus,
>>
>> Did you look at this section:
>>
>> http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/reference-xforms-ng#xforms-javascript-events 
>>
>>
>> But wouldn't xforms:load work for this? You can write:
>>
>> <xforms:load resource="{dynamically compute resource here}"
>>              xxforms:target="my-target"/>
>>
>> and run this when the user presses a trigger.
>>
>> -Erik