Thursday 22 December 2011

"loaded" vs "rendered" in XPages

I couldn’t find many resources on the exact difference between loaded and rendered property available in XPage controls except for this blog by Thiyagarajan.

When you hover your mouse over loaded property it says – “Specifies whether or not the control should be created when the page is loaded.” while for rendered it says – “Indicates whether or not control should be displayed or processed on any subsequent form submission.”. Enabling the properties (exclusively) does not generate the control in the web page. But this is where the similarity ends. It was after a discussion with Sven Hasselbach on XPages forum, I understood the usage of these properties.

Create two computed fields cfLoaded and cfRendered with loaded & rendered property set to false in them respectively. Now add another computed field with following code:
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