Utility Methods

The following table shows the utility methods that can be called on the container object.

container.submitContentForm (channelName, formId)

This method can be called from any channel to submit a form asynchronously. The form is submitted with the POST method. The existing channel content is automatically replaced with the response content of the form submit. It takes the following arguments:

channelName

Name of channel or portlet as a String

formId

ID of the form element

The JavaScript source file is AJAXTableContainer.js.

container.getSelectedChannelByName(channelName)

Gets the HTML node element of a channel or portlet. It takes the channelName argument to specify the name of the channel or portlet. The JavaScript source file is AJAXTableContainer.js.

container.getChannelContentNode(channelNode)

Returns the HTML node element of the content DIV of a channel. It takes the channelNode argument to specify the HTML node element of the channel. The JavaScript source file is AJAXTableContainer.js.

container.getChannelEditNode(channelNode)

Returns the HTML node element of the inline edit DIV of a channel. It takes the channelNode argument to specify the HTML node element of the channel. The JavaScript source file is AJAXTableContainer.js.