User Control populated from request variable in containing page - events

I have a user control that displays results from a database in a gridview. The containing page receives querystring values and passes them to the user control to load.
From the containing page, what is the best way to load and display the user control? Currently, I do the following:
Containing Page_Load: Get querystring values
Containing Page_Load: Instantiate User Control
Containing Page_Load: set User Control's properties
Containing Page_Load: Add User Control to Page
I'm not sure what event in the user control to use to hit the database and populate control; should I make a "Populate this Control" Method on the usercontrol and call it from the Containing page? Or use a Page_Load routine in the user control?

If your page is not doing anything to sanitize or process the variables, is there any reason that the user control cannot just grab the values itself?
If you do have a reason to sanitize the data, you could load in the controls' Load event, but in this case since the page appears to be driving the functionality of the user control you might benefit from a "SetupControl" or some other method that you can call after it has been configured.

Override the OnDataBinding method in the user control to access the database and populate the control from the results. You could alternatively have the control handle the DataBinding event.
In other words, treat the user control just like any other control.

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Apex - set items values after submit

I have to regions with items on my page. One of them is to edit data, another one is display only. Editable region is hidden on page load and shows when users click on a button. I'd like to pass data between these regions after submit a page. Are computations after submit the only way to do that? I tried with processes after submit, before header etc. but it didn't work.
I'd like to have one pl/sql code to pass data between two regions after submit, how to do such a thing?
Other options include
dynamic action (you'd use Set value)
button's Redirect to page in this application (where you'd redirect to the same page; Link Builder then lets you choose which items will be set to which values)
If you still can't make it work, consider creating sample page on apex.oracle.com; then provide login credentials so that someone might have a look.

Data-view is not updating when entity is updated in Mendix

Question is: How to show data in data-view in such a way that if entity is updated some how dataview is updated too.
This is my Entity named latestReading.
Here is my page LatestReading that show latest readings. It contains three data views.
This page is not called directly, as it expect a object latestReading. Hence a micro-flow named showLatestReadingPage is executed that fetches or create latestReading object and pass it to the LatestReading page and display LatestReading page.
Here is that micro-flow.
getOrCreateLatestReading is a micro-flow that returns us the a latestReading object if it is available or create a new latestReading object if it is not already created and then returns it.
Here is that micro-flow.
These are the properties of first of the three data-views in LatestReading page as shown diagram of LatestReading Page above. Name of this DataView is TemperatureDataView
These are the properties of text widget that is inside TemperatureDataView data-view. Its name is temperatureText. It shows value of temperature in the TemperatureDataView.
And this is the caption of temperatureText text widget:
Problem is when another micro-flow updates the value of latestReading the text widget is not updated. I need to reload it by clicking on navigation link of LatestReading page again.
I need my text widget in data view to keep updating value of latestReading when it is updated my some other micro-flow
The issue is that ‘refresh in client’ only works if the microflow is executed in the same context as the page (client) that the user is seeing. For example if there is a button on the page that triggers a microflow that refreshes the client then it will update the widget. However, if the microflow is triggered by the system (e.g. a scheduled event) then these changes are in a different context. Also if another user triggers a refresh it will only refresh that user’s client. Also if one user is logged in through multiple browsers (i.e. has multiple sessions, it also means that for each session there is a different user context.
The simplest solution in this case would likely be to use an appstore widget that periodically triggers a refresh on the object displayed in the dataview, such as this one: https://appstore.home.mendix.com/link/app/27/ . Simply create nanoflow or microflow with a change action that changes no attributes but refreshes the object.

Dynamically Create SubMenu using MvcSite map Mvc3

I have created a MvcSite Map which contains Menu Itmes this Site Map is displayed on the shared layout page using #Html.MvcSiteMap.Menu(false,true,true)
i have a custom code in MenuHelpModel.cshtml file
now i want to create some menuitmes when a user login i am getting the number of organization the user belongs which is dynamic "a user can be a member of n number of organization"
is there any way I can write the dynamic menu in the MenuHelpModel or do I need to write the Code in layout and use Jquery to populate the Menu?
Is there any way to use ViewBag inside jQuery?
This can be done the way you require. Firstly, you need to create a "Authorized" layout page.
In this page you can setup your MvcSiteMap as per your code above. The authorized page loads this master page. You use the DynamicNodeProvider class to load up the organizations based on the Authenticated UserID.

Django delayed updates to database

I'm creating a Django/JQuery/MySQL application where I pass a composite data structure 'grid' as
return render_to_response('products.html', grid)
I render 'grid' into a set of UI elements ('td', 'button', 'div' etc. encapsulated in a HTML 'table'.
A typical use case:
User clicks on a certain UI element in the table
jQUery.click() is called which creates a inner 'input' tag for the clicked element.
User can add/modify/delete text from the element.
When focus is lost, jQuery.blur() is called which reverts the original properties of the clicked element such as removing input tag etc.
jQuery.blur() also calls a AJAX function where I do a .post call to send in user modified data back to a URL (function in view).
The called function in view then commits the new changes in database and returns a 'success' event back to web page:
tc_model_instance.update(tc_id=json_data['id'])
Through this use case, as you can see the changes are immediately committed to the database as soon as user eneters data and gives up focus on a particular element. Without using DB transactions in INNODB, how do I go about creating a View-Template association such that any changes in HTML template are asynchronously reflected in the model, but not necessarily written into the database.
A related question:
If possible I'd also like to create a event based bi-directional association between rendered template and my data structures as part of the view in such a way that any changes made either in web browser's UI element or associated view's data are always in sync. I plan to use AJAX for the most purpose. Not sure if forms would make sense in this regard.
Thanks.
You could probably throw a copy of the object into the session map and all posts alter that object instead of the DB directly. Then when the user presses a save button you'd fire off another POST command to the server that would then just call session['my_object'].save().
Note though that the session object is also saved in the DB, so if you are trying to avoid hitting the DB totally what I wrote above wouldn't help.

XPages - Bind Document Data Source in a embedded Custom Control

I created a custom control that is binded to a a Domino Document data source. I embedded it in a page so that I can display it in a Dojo dialog. It has 2 properties: dialogId and docId. The document data source's Document ID property is set to compositeData.docId. In the page, I set the docId property to a viewScope variable, that will be set when an entry in a view is clicked. What I want to accomplish is that the dialog will display the document that the current view entry (that was clicked) represents. But it seems that the compositeData.docId is not set on partial or even full refresh. Is there a way to do this that the custom control will be binded to the document? I need to have this binding so that I can easily do a server-side validation when I submit the dialog. Or if there is another way, can you also put it here? Thanks a lot!
set the datasource as the document, and then edit mode, then you have a place to compute the doc id, i usually compute the doc id to a viewScope, that i set when i click the item in the repeat control
More details here.
I would prefer the DocId to be transfered via the custom control parameters rather than a Scope variable. Using the Scope breaks the custom control design principle of being self contained. You can use the yourCC.PropertyMap to actually update a value, so the hand over of the parameter will work - of course your control then needs to be refreshed so the data source is recomputed. Hope that helps.

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