triggering a submission with javascript

I'm trying to get a javascript function to be able to trigger a submission to occur.  From my reading of the documentation at http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/reference-xforms-ng#xforms-javascript-events my understanding is that I ought to be able to use ORBEON.xforms.Document.dispatchEvent('<the id of the submission>','xforms-submit') but that doesn't seem to work for me.  I can add a trigger which sends the submission, and then use javascript to send a DOMActivate event to the trigger, but I can't send an xforms-submit directly to the submission. 

One thing I considered was that perhaps xforms-submit counts as an "external event" as mentioned in the warning in the documentation.  However, I wasn't able to fix things by adding the attribute xxforms:external-events="xforms-submit" to the model.

I've attached a simple version in which the first javascript link does not fire a submission whereas the second link does send a DOMActivate to the button which in turn fires a submission.



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Dave,

 > I'm trying to get a javascript function to be able to trigger a
 > submission to occur.  From my reading of the documentation at
 >
http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/reference-xforms-ng#xforms-javascript-events
 > my understanding is that I ought to be able to use
 > ORBEON.xforms.Document.dispatchEvent('<the id of the
 > submission>','xforms-submit') but that doesn't seem to work for me.  I
 > can add a trigger which sends the submission, and then use javascript to
 > send a DOMActivate event to the trigger, but I can't send an
 > xforms-submit directly to the submission.
 >
 > One thing I considered was that perhaps xforms-submit counts as an
 > "external event" as mentioned in the warning in the documentation.
 > However, I wasn't able to fix things by adding the attribute
 > xxforms:external-events="xforms-submit" to the model.
 >
 > I've attached a simple version in which the first javascript link does
 > not fire a submission whereas the second link does send a DOMActivate to
 > the button which in turn fires a submission.

For security reasons, you can't dispatch built-in events (i.e. DOM
events or XForms events, except DOMActivate, DOMFocusIn and
DOMFocusOut) from JavaScript, even if you use
xxforms:external-events. I realized that this was not explicit in the
doc so I updated it.

If you use a custom event instead, then things work. See attached.

-Erik

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