Questions asked by Matthias Lang

Macro expand/evaluate a string like in 3.x

Matthias Lang — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:19:19 -0400

I have a text content object which contains Ivy macros like <%= in.abc.var%>. This content object is used as content in an email element with <%ivy.cms.co("...")%>. This works very good.

Now we want to do the same but call it with an external function which gets the subject and the content as an argument. But this leads to the following exception:

ch.ivyteam.ivy.macro.MacroException: Error during macro expansion: IvyScript Runtime Exception in Instruction: in.abc.var<br/>
    Block: in.abc.var<br/>
    at  ch.ivyteam.ivy.macro.internal.MacroExpander.expandMacros(MacroExpander.java:84)

Is there a possibility to evaluate a string that contains ivy macros like it was possible in Ivy 3.x?

How to get the responsible user/role for an expired task?

Matthias Lang — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:08:56 -0400

If a task expires I want to send an email to the user responsible. Unfortunately I do not find a way to get the user/role assigned for the expired task. If I use ivy.task.getActivator(), ivy.task.getOriginalActivator() or ivy.task.getWorkerUser() then always SYSTEM is returned. I would expect here the user/role of the task before the expiration. So how do I get this user/role?

Event mapping for function keys

Matthias Lang — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:57:08 -0400

I search for a possibility to start a rich dialog event with the function keys on the keyboard, e.g. to use F5 for refresh. I was successful to use the normal keys for characters or digits, but not for the function keys. How could this be possible?

Set window size of a rich dialog depending from the screen resolution

Matthias Lang — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:10:35 -0400

We have the problem that rich dialogs runs in screens with different screen resolutions. Running always in full screen mode is no solution and with modal dialogs even not possible. To avoid the scroll bars that some users have, we would like to set the window size depending from the resolution so that everybody gets the best window size.

I know I can get the screen size with java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize(). But if use this value in panel.preferredSize it does not work properly.

Conversion of duration as a text into a variable of type duration

Matthias Lang — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:26:00 -0400

I need to convert a string variable in the ISO8601 format (e.g. 'P2D') into a variable of type Duration to use it in a task switch. The API method myText.toDuration() converts into the Date type not into Duration. How can I do that?