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Javascript broken after migrating from cognos 10.2.2 to cognos 11

I have migrated the reports from Cognos 10.2.2 to Cognos "11.0.13.1 LTS" version. The java script governing the prompt page is currently broken after migrating to 11. This is working well and good on 10.2.2.
Did something change on Cognos 11 or some functions that we are using is deprecated or something similar. Any rope would be really useful in diagnosing the issue.
We also put a ticket to IBM as well to identify what is going on
We tried editing the code and formatted the code in different ways and still getting the same behavior.
var fW = (typeof getFormWarpRequest == "function" ? getFormWarpRequest() : document.forms["formWarpRequest"]);
if ( !fW || fW == undefined) { fW = ( formWarpRequest_THIS_ ? formWarpRequest_THIS_ : formWarpRequest_NS_ );}
var form = fW;
var ID=fW.elements["_oLstChoicesID"];
var SID=fW.elements["_oLstChoicesSID"];
ID.attachEvent("onclick", m_click);
function m_click()
{
for(i=0;i<fW._oLstChoicesID.length;i++)
{
fW._oLstChoicesID[i].selected=false;
fW._oLstChoicesID[i].disabled=true;
}
for(i=0;i<fW._oLstChoicesSID.length;i++)
{
fW._oLstChoicesSID[i].disabled=false;
}
}
I want the second List "SID" to be disabled when any of the elements in the ID is selected.

I think the "FormWarpRequest" stuff is a holdover from Cognos 8. It may not work in Cognos 11.0.x. You should be using cognos.Report.getReport("_THIS_"); in Cognos 10.2.2 (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_10.2.2/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cr_rptstd.10.2.2.doc/r_prmpt_api_cognos_report.html#cognos.report). That should still work in Cognos 11.0.x, but you'll want to begin moving to the new coding style using RequireJS (see https://www.ibm.com/communities/analytics/cognos-analytics-blog/updated-javascript-samples-for-ibm-cognos-analytics-11-0-10/ and https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/data/sw-library/cognos/mobile/scriptable_reports/index.html) and changing the Run with full interactivity property to Yes to take advantage of the new features.

Is it possible to send a key code to an application that is not in front?

I'm writing a simple Automator script in Javascript.
I want to send a key-code(or key-storke) to an OS X application that is not in front.
Basically, I want to run this code and do my things while the script opens a certain application, write text, and hit enter - all of this without bothering my other work.
I want something like this:
Application("System Events").processes['someApp'].windows[0].textFields[0].keyCode(76);
In Script Dictionary, there is keyCode method under Processes Suite.
The above code, however, throws an error that follows:
execution error: Error on line 16: Error: Named parameters must be passed as an object. (-2700)
I understand that the following code works fine, but it require the application to be running in front:
// KeyCode 76 => "Enter"
Application("System Events").keyCode(76);
UPDATE: I'm trying to search something on iTunes(Apple Music). Is this possible without bringing iTunes app upfront?

It's possible to write text in application that is not in front with the help of the GUI Scripting (accessibility), but :
You need to know what UI elements are in the window of your specific
application, and to know the attributes and properties of the
specific element.
You need to add your script in the System Preferences --> Security
& Privacy --> Accessibility.
Here's a sample script (tested on macOS Sierra) to write some text at the position of the cursor in the front document of the "TextEdit" application.
Application("System Events").processes['TextEdit'].windows[0].scrollAreas[0].textAreas[0].attributes["AXSelectedText"].value = "some text" + "\r" // r is the return KEY
Update
To send some key code to a background application, you can use the CGEventPostToPid() method of the Carbon framework.
Here's the script to search some text in iTunes (Works on my computer, macOS Sierra and iTunes Version 10.6.2).
ObjC.import('Carbon')
iPid = Application("System Events").processes['iTunes'].unixId()
searchField = Application("System Events").processes['iTunes'].windows[0].textFields[0]
searchField.buttons[0].actions['AXPress'].perform()
delay(0.1) // increase it, if no search
searchField.focused = true
delay(0.3) // increase it, if no search
searchField.value = "world" // the searching text
searchField.actions["AXConfirm"].perform()
delay(0.1) // increase it, if no search
// ** carbon methods to send the enter key to a background application ***
enterDown = $.CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent($(), 76, true);
enterUp = $.CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent($(), 76, false);
$.CGEventPostToPid(iPid, enterDown);
delay(0.1)
$.CGEventPostToPid(iPid, enterUp);

Check if text has error of typing [duplicate]

How does one detect a spelling mistake inside a textarea in JavaScript? Is there an event associated with this? How do I access Chrome's spell-check suggestions for a misspelled word?

How do I access Chrome's spell-check suggestions for a misspelled word?
To the best of my knowledge, you cannot. To answer more fully, I'll also mention related issues:
There was once an unofficial Google spell-check API that has disappeared
You can download but not access Chrome's built in dictionary
There is no open API for Google's dictionary
Is there an event associated with this?
No, nor does the contextmenu event provide anything useful for this purpose: it has no spell-check information and you cannot read the list of context menu items (which may contain spelling suggestions). The change event also doesn't provide spell-check information.
How does one detect a spelling mistake inside a textarea in JavaScript?
You can either code this yourself or use a third party library. There are other Stack Overflow questions on this topic or you can search for yourself. Related Stack Overflow questions include:
Javascript Spell Checking Methods
javascript spell checker recommendations
Javascript based spell-checkers for web applications
Add spell check to my website
Need Client side spell checker for DIV
javascript spell checking

As the question seems a bit broad and open to interpretation (especially with the current bounty-'requirements'), I'll start by explaining how I interpret it and try to answer the subquestions in the process (Q/A style).
You seem to be asking:
"Google Chrome"/"Chromium" specific:
Q: if browser "Google Chrome"/"Chromium" exposes a spellcheck-API that you can interact with through the use of javascript in a common webpage
A: No, not really (at least not in the way you'd want).
There is a Chromium-specific Spellcheck API Proposal (from dec 2012).
Here are some parts of it:
Could this API be part of the web platform?
It is unlikely that spellchecking will become part of the web platform.
More importantly, it has only one method called 'loadDictionary':
loadDictionary( myDictionaryFile // string path or URL
, dictionaryFormat // enumerated string [ "hunspell" (concatentation of .aff and .dic files)
// , "text" (plain text)
// ]
) // returns int indicating success or an error code in loading the dictionary.
The point? Helping the community create custom dictionaries for Zulu, Klingon, etc. because approximately 20-30% of Spellcheck bugs-rapports were regarding unsupported languages.
Now let's not confuse Chrome's SpellCheck API (above) with Chrome/Webkit's SpellCheck API (hu? say what?):
Hironori Bono (a software engineer for Google Chrome) proposed an API around 2011 and some related bug rapports and a patch that was(/is still?) in Chrome.
void addSpellcheckRange( unsigned long start
, unsigned long length
, DOMStringList suggestions
// [, unsigned short options]
);
void removeSpellcheckRange(SpellcheckRange range);
Usage example:
var input = document.querySelector('input');
input.addSpellcheckRange( 4
, 9
, [ 'Chrome'
, 'Firefox'
, 'Opera'
, 'Internet Explorer'
]
);
Sources:
http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/html5-whats-new/template/index.html#42 ,
http://peter.sh/experiments/spellcheck-api/ (you should be able to try it live there IF this API still works..)
The point? After contemplating over this a couple of day's it suddenly clicked: custom spell-check integration with the browser - using the browser's context-menu instead of blocking it and providing your own. So one could link that with an existing external spell-check library.
Above historical and experimental API's clearly never directly supported what you want to accomplish.
Q: if "Google Chrome"/"Chromium" spellcheck-API exposes an 'onSpellError' (-like) event on (for example) a textarea
A: As outlined above, it appears that Chrome doesn't have such an event.
HTM5 currently only exposes the ability to enable or disable spell-checking on spellcheck supported elements.
Q: how to access Chrome's spell-check suggestions for a misspelled word
A: As outlined above: it appears that you can't. It appears to be the same answer as for the almost duplicate-question: How can I access Chrome's spell-check dictionary?
It might be interesting to note that "TinyMCE's spellchecker was previously provided by 'hacking' a Chrome toolbar API owned by Google, against Google's own legal usage policies. This spellchecking service has been discontinued permanently.". Now if you search the web you probably can find how they did that, but it certainly doesn't seem the best way to go about it (and advocate it here).
Using javascript spell-check libraries you could however use Chrome's dictionaries (so you wouldn't need to maintain the dictionaries) but you would have to supply and ship these files together with your web-app (instead of fetching the installed ones in the browser).
General:
Q: How to detect a spelling mistake inside a textarea in JavaScript
A: Internet Explorer allows using the spellchecker
integrated into Microsoft Word via ActiveX as listed in the following
code snippet.
function CheckText(text) {
var result = new Array;
var app = new ActiveXObject('Word.Application');
var doc = app.Documents.Add();
doc.Content = text;
for (var i = 1; i <= doc.SpellingErrors.Count; i++) {
var spellingError = doc.SpellingErrors.Item(i);
for (var j = 1; j <= spellingError.Words.Count; j++) {
var word = spellingError.Words.Item(j);
var error = {};
error.word = word.Text;
error.start = word.Start;
error.length = word.Text.length;
error.suggestions = new Array;
var suggestions = word.GetSpellingSuggestions();
for (var k = 1; k <= suggestions.Count; k++) {
error.suggestions.push(suggestions.Item(k).Name);
}
result.push(error);
}
}
return result;
}
Source: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011AprJun/0516.html
But IE/ActiveX/MS-Word isn't really what you have asked for, neither is it very cross platform/browser, that leaves us with local javascript spell-check libraries:
Javascript Spell Checking Methods
http://code.google.com/p/bjspell/
http://www.javascriptspellcheck.com/
http://ejohn.org/blog/revised-javascript-dictionary-search/
Etc.
Comparing/explaining them is really outside the scope of this answer.
It is worth noting what format of dictionary you wish to use!
Alternatively one could use an external spellcheck API service (where a server handles the data and you'd communicate with it using AJAX).
Obviously you'd need to take privacy matters into account!
The bounty-'requirements' ask for:
Q: definitive proof
A: I should have found something more regarding the subject than some esoteric experimental features. Neither do I see libraries that try to shim their functionality into some (upcoming) standardized method/event identifiers etc.
As noted, popular libraries like TinyMCE also currently have no other solution.
In the 'living standard'/'the world is our playground' mentality my answer could very well already be outdated when I press the 'submit'-button. But even then I wouldn't recommend such an experimental feature in the near future on a 'production' level website/interface.
Q: and obtaining a good answer explaining how to achieve this
(chrome specific or in general? Spell-check suggestions or detecting that there is a typo?)
A: Other than the above, I can't think of anything (other than libraries that web-developers currently use (see 4)).
Hope this helps!

There is not an API for accessing Chrome's spellcheck suggestions, nor are there natively any events fired when words are mistyped. However, events could be implemented.
I have no idea what your use-case is for this functionality, but I put together a demonstration using montanaflynn's Spellcheck API on MashApe. The demo watches a text area, and when the user pauses typing, it sends the text via the API to be tested. The API returns JSON containing the original string, the suggested corrected string, and an object containing the corrected words and their suggested replacements.
The suggestions are displayed below the textarea. When suggestions are hovered, the mistyped word is highlighted. When clicked, the typo is replaced with the suggestion.
I also added a shuffling function, that scrambles the words in the string before sending it, to add a layer of privacy to the use of the API (it uses SSL also). Neither the API nor Chrome use context-based suggestions, so the shuffling doesn't alter the results.
Here's a link to the CodePen: http://codepen.io/aecend/pen/rOebQq
And here is the code:
CSS
<style>
* {
font-family: sans-serif;
}
textarea {
margin-bottom: 10px;
width: 500px;
height: 300px;
padding: 10px;
}
.words {
width: 500px;
}
.word {
display: inline-block;
padding: 2px 5px 1px 5px;
border-radius: 2px;
background: #00B1E6;
color: white;
margin: 2px;
cursor: pointer;
}
</style>
HTML
<textarea id="text" placeholder="Type something here..."></textarea>
<div id="words"></div>
JavaScript
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
;(function(){
"use strict";
var words = document.getElementById("words"),
input = document.getElementById("text"),
timeout, xhr;
input.addEventListener("keyup", function(e){
if (timeout) clearTimeout(timeout);
if (!this.value.trim()) words.innerHTML = '';
timeout = setTimeout(function() {
var test_phrase = shuffle_words( input.value );
spell_check(test_phrase);
timeout = null;
}, 500);
});
function shuffle_words(inp) {
inp = inp.replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
var arr = inp.split(" "),
n = arr.length;
while (n > 0) {
var i = Math.floor(Math.random() * n--),
t = arr[n];
arr[n] = arr[i];
arr[i] = t;
}
return arr.join(' ');
}
function spell_check(text){
if (xhr) xhr.abort();
xhr = $.ajax({
url: 'https://montanaflynn-spellcheck.p.mashape.com/check/',
headers: {
'X-Mashape-Key': 'U3ogA8RAAMmshGOJkNxkTBbuYYRTp1gMAuGjsniThZuaoKIyaj',
'Accept': 'application/json'
},
data: {
'text': text
},
cache: false,
success: function(result){
xhr = null;
suggest_words(result);
}
});
}
function suggest_words(obj){
if (!obj.corrections) return;
words.innerHTML = '';
for (var key in obj.corrections) {
if (obj.corrections.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
var div = document.createElement("div");
div.className = "word";
div.innerHTML = obj.corrections[key][0];
div.orig = key;
div.onmouseover = function() {
var start = input.value.indexOf(this.orig);
input.selectionStart = start;
input.selectionEnd = start + this.orig.length;
};
div.onmouseout = function() {
var len = input.value.length;
input.selectionStart = len;
input.selectionEnd = len;
}
div.onclick = function() {
input.value = input.value.replace(this.orig, this.innerHTML);
this.parentNode.removeChild(this);
}
words.appendChild(div);
}
}
}
})();
</script>
I only used jQuery to simplify the AJAX request for this demonstration. This could easily be done in vanilla JS.

You can disable internal browser spellcheck and integrate any other opensource spellcheck library, for example
JavaScript SpellCheck. It contains all events you may need for deep integration, check the API page.

Controlling a Firefox Extension via Javascript

Is it possible, using javascript, to control an overlay firefox extension? I've extracted the contents of the extension and have identified what functions/methods I need to run, but they are not accessible within the scope of the console.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Yes it possible to interact with other add-ons, given the right circumstances.
My test case here will be com.googlecode.sqlitemanager.openInOwnWindow(), which is part of the SqliteManager addon.
In newer builds (I'm using Nightly), there is the Browser Toolbox. With it is is as simple as opening a toolbox and executing com.googlecode.sqlitemanager.openInOwnWindow() in the Console.
You may instead use the Browser Console (or any chrome enabled WebDev Console for that matter, e.g. the Console of "about:newtab"). But you need some boilerplate code to first find the browser window. So here is the code you can execute there: var bwin = Services.wm.getMostRecentWindow("navigator:browser"); bwin.com.googlecode.sqlitemanager.openInOwnWindow()
Again, enable chrome debugging. Then open a Scratchpad and switch to Chrome in the Environment menu. Now executing com.googlecode.sqlitemanager.openInOwnWindow() in our Scratchpad will work.
You may of course write your own overlay add-on.
As a last resort, patch the add-on itself.
Bootstrapped/SDK add-ons: you can load XPIProvider.jsm (which changed location recently) and get to the bootstrapped scope (run environment of bootstrap.js) via XPIProvider.bootstrapScopes[addonID], and take it from there (use whatever is in the bootstrap scope, e.g. the SDK loader).
Now about the right circumstances: If and how you can interact with a certain add-on depends on the add-on. Add-ons may have global symbols in their overlay and hence browser window, such as in the example I used. Or may use (to some extend) JS code modules. Or have their own custom loader stuff (e.g. AdBlock Plus has their own require()-like stuff and SDK add-ons have their own loader, which isn't exactly easy to infiltate)...
Since your question is rather unspecific, I'll leave it at this.
Edit by question asker: This is correct, however I figured I'd add an example of the code I ended up using in the end, which was in fact taken directly from mozilla's developer network website:
In my chrome js:
var myExtension = {
myListener: function(evt) {
IprPreferences.setFreshIpStatus(true); // replace with whatever you want to 'fire' in the extension
}
}
document.addEventListener("MyExtensionEvent", function(e) { myExtension.myListener(e); }, false, true);
// The last value is a Mozilla-specific value to indicate untrusted content is allowed to trigger the event.
In the web content:
var element = document.createElement("MyExtensionDataElement");
element.setAttribute("attribute1", "foobar");
element.setAttribute("attribute2", "hello world");
document.documentElement.appendChild(element);
var evt = document.createEvent("Events");
evt.initEvent("MyExtensionEvent", true, false);
element.dispatchEvent(evt);

Update for Firefox 47 and up
Things changed drastically in Firefox 47. This is the new way to access it.
var XPIScope = Cu.import('resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm');
var addonid = 'Profilist#jetpack';
var scope = XPIScope.XPIProvider.activeAddons.get(addonid).bootstrapScope
Old way for < Firefox 47
Update for methods of today
Typically you will do so like this:
If i wanted to get into AdBlocks scope, I check AdBlock id, it is {d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d} so I would go:
var XPIScope = Cu.import('resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm');
var adblockScope = XPIScope.XPIProvider.bootstrapScopes['{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}'];
You can now tap into anything there.
Another example, I have an addon installed with id NativeShot#jetpack
I would tap into it like this:
var XPIScope = Cu.import('resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm');
var nativeshotScope = XPIScope.XPIProvider.bootstrapScopes['NativeShot#jetpack'];
if you do console.log(nativeshotScope) you will see all that is inside.

ActiveXObject("Outlook.Application") Not working when Outlook is open

I have a javascript that works when Outlook is closed. However, if outlook is open I receive "Automation Server" error.
var outlookApp = new ActiveXObject('Outlook.Application');
var nameSpace = outlookApp.getNameSpace("MAPI");
mailFolder = nameSpace.getDefaultFolder(6);
email = mailFolder.Items.add('IPM.Note.FormA');
email.Subject="Quote: "+ quoteNum + ' | Part#: '+ partNum;
email.To = "lcarreiro#epectec.com"; //who will to be going to
email.HTMLBody = "Quote Attached " + quoteNum;
email.display(0);
Any suggestions besides changing IE setting as I have already done so....

Probably a little late to help you but hopefully it helps anyone else who ends up here.
I was having the same issue and stumbled across https://stackoverflow.com/a/3779945/1002621 which answered a similar question.
Basically the issue is because when you run Visual Studio as an Administrator and Outlook with normal privileges you are no longer allowed to get an instance to the existing Outlook application but as it is single instance it won't create a new one.
This is only an issue if you initiate debugging directly from Visual Studio just starting your own instance of IE makes the problem go away.