XPages App to Web App: Part Sixteen: Spots
Now that we've set up the CRUD pages for ships and spots, it's time to put them together. When we search a ship, we'll want to be able to see the spots created for that ship. Now let's set that up.
Feb 2025
XPages App to Web App: Part Fifteen - Dialogs
When it comes to creating Ship Spots, one of the pain points I highlighted with the previous application was when a Ship Spot required creating a new Port or a new Country. This required switching to an "admin" area to open a Port form to complete and save; and if the country hasn't been created, it requires additionally switching to a County form to complete and save, before returning to the Port and back to the Ship Spot. Options were cached server-side in viewScope, so launching additional browser windows wasn't an option - the page would still need to be refreshed and entered data lost. We can improve on this.
XPages App to Web App: Part Fourteen - Fields and Save
In the last part I covered CSS Grid and its use for the layout of the Ship Spot form. In this part I'm going to cover the additional form functionality and save functionality.