Custom Task Pane

Mik — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 03:48:36 GMT

I am currently setting up a context-sensitive task pane in one of my forms using Jscript.
I have read and understood how to do this with div tags in the HTML and code on the On Context Change event (as per M$ lab 14)
Thats all working fine, but its not exactly what i require.
In my application of it, there is one help for one group, which may contain many groups.

Here is the script in my form:


var helpString = null;

function XDocument::OnContextChange(eventObj)
{
   if (eventObj.Type == "ContextNode")
   {
      // Retrieve task pane object
      var oTaskPane = XDocument.View.Window.TaskPanes.Item(0);   

      // Retrieve html object for task pane
      var oHTMLDoc = oTaskPane.HTMLDocument.all;
      
      // Clear previous help topic from task pane
      if (helpString)
         oHTMLDoc.item(helpString).style.display="none";
      
      // Display DIV statement having same ID as the context node name
      oHTMLDoc.item(eventObj.Context.nodeName).style.display="";
         
      // Keep record of string displayed, so can later be cleared
      helpString=eventObj.Context.nodeName;
            
      return;
   }
}

As I have worked out "eventObj.Context.nodeName" is the name of the node, which is referencing the id of the div statements in the html.
I have set each of the groups up, so if I could get the XPATH expression of the node (instead of just the name) I could find its location and display that associated div content.

Can anyone help me output the XPATH from eventObj.Context
And then does anyone know how I could strip the first group off the front of that (which i assume would be relatively easy with string functions, but cant hurt to help)

Thanks

Code

Custom Task Pane