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How Can I Pass String Variable to Anonymous Adobe View SDK Script?

I have a very basic knowledge of javascript and I have been unable to find a solution for my specific use of the Adobe View SDK API, though it seems like there should be a way. I am working on a web page to show newsletters in the pdf viewer. I have created a w3.css modal element so that I can open the viewer with a button click, and then close it with an "x" in the corner. The button click and the "x" toggle between the display style being "none" or "block". I really like this solution as it lets me use small images of the newsletters as the buttons, and it can be observed here: Test News Page by clicking on the newsletter image below May 4, 2020.
The ultimate goal I have is to be able to change the name of the pdf document that is opened in the viewer by clicking the button, which would need to pass a string variable called "docName" to the url called by the View SDK script. Since the url is already specified in the script inside my modal element when the page loads, here is the thinking I have for the additional script I need to pass my string variables: The button-click invokes my script (function changeName(docName)) and passes the "docName" variable. Then my script needs to pass this variable to the url in the View script (this is the part I don't know how to do), then refresh the page to reload my modal, and then change the display style of the modal to "block". I will copy the code for the View SDK below, showing where I need to insert the string variable with my document name:
<script src="https://documentcloud.adobe.com/view-sdk/main.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.addEventListener("adobe_dc_view_sdk.ready", function(){
var adobeDCView = new AdobeDC.View({clientId: "06179511ab964c9284f1b0887eca1b46", divId: "adobe-dc-view"});
adobeDCView.previewFile({
content:{location: {url: "https://www.shcsfarmington.org/" + docName + ".pdf"}},
metaData:{fileName: "Newsletter_050420.pdf"}
}, {embedMode: "FULL_WINDOW", defaultViewMode: "FIT_WIDTH"});
});
</script>
It seems like this should work, but with my limited knowledge of javascript I don't know how to pass this variable to the anonymous function in the View SDK code, and I would need as much detail and specifics in the syntax of the solution. I appreciate any help with this. Thanks.
EDIT: I thought maybe it would help to show the code for the function that I have come up with so far - then it could be examined and easier to debug and comment on:
<button id="CSS-050420" onclick="changeDoc('Newsletter_050420');"></button>
<script>
function changeDoc(docName) {
/* Need to pass docName to url=https://shcsfarmington.org/2020/news/Newsletter_" + newsDate + ".pdf"; */
window.location.reload(true);
document.getElementById('viewerModal').style.display='block';
}
</script>

I created a CodePen here for you to look at.
Basically, you'll load the first file when the SDK is ready but then you need to set the adobeDCView to null before recreating it.
function showPDF(url) {
adobeDCView = null;
fetch(url)
.then((res) => res.blob())
.then((blob) => {
adobeDCView = new AdobeDC.View({
// This clientId can be used for any CodePen example
clientId: "e800d12fc12c4d60960778b2bc4370af",
// The id of the container for the PDF Viewer
divId: "adobe-dc-view"
});
adobeDCView.previewFile(
{
content: { promise: Promise.resolve(blob.arrayBuffer()) },
metaData: { fileName: url.split("/").slice(-1)[0] }
},
{
embedMode: "FULL_WINDOW",
defaultViewMode: "FIT_PAGE",
showDownloadPDF: true,
showPrintPDF: true,
showLeftHandPanel: false,
showAnnotationTools: false
}
);
});
}
The link click even will pass the url to the PDF and then display it.

backbone marionette incorrect rendering of element

I'm working on implementing a QR reader in a web based app that uses the PC's webcam. This is currently working correct.
The framework that I use (barcode.js) has a function render(element).
I have 2 different files, ScannerView.html and ScannerView.js. See their code below:
ScannerView.html
<!-- Content Header (Page header) -->
<section class="content-header has-background-image">
<div class="background">
<img src="/assets/temp/header.png" />
</div>
<h1><div class="icon"><i class="fa fa-wrench"></i></div> <%=name%></h1>
</section>
<section class="content">
// Withing the following div, the canvas element should be placed
<div id="scanner"></div>
</section>
ScannerView.js
var YookrApp = require("../../setup");
var scanner = null;
var ScannerView = Backbone.Marionette.CompositeView.extend({
template: require("./ScannerView.html"),
className: "scannerView",
ui: {
scannerDiv: "#scanner"
},
name: "Yookr Code Scanner",
initialize: function(options) {
},
onRender: function() {
w69b.qr.decoding.setWorkerUrl("assets/w69b.qrcode.decodeworker.js");
scanner = new w69b.qr.ui.ContinuousScanner();
// Called when a qr code has been decoded.
scanner.setDecodedCallback(function(result) {
console.log("Decoded qr code:", result);
});
scanner.setStopped(false);
// Render component in element with id "scanner".
console.log("Start rendering");
scanner.render(this.ui.scannerDiv);
console.log("Rendering done");
},
close: function() {
// We have to dispose the scanner object.
// If we don"t do this, the webcam will
// always be enabled
scanner.dispose();
}
});
module.exports = ScannerView;
When I run my app, the scanner.render() function should add a <canvas> element inside <div id="scanner"></div> in ScannerView.html
Problem
I'm not able to render the canvas using scanner.render() properly withing the <div id="scanner"></div> that is located in my html file. I tried to use document.getElementById and this.ui.scannerDiv with different, but not correct result.
Because I defined an UI element in the ScannerView.js file, I should be able to call scanner.render(this.ui.scannerDiv); This should use the div with id scanner in my html view, but instead the canvas is not rendered at all. In my console, I can see the following warnings:
[.Offscreen-For-WebGL-0000020AB57365B0]GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_FRAMEBUFFER_OPERATION : glDrawArrays: framebuffer incomplete
and
[.Offscreen-For-WebGL-0000020AB57365B0]RENDER WARNING: texture bound to texture unit 2 is not renderable. It maybe non-power-of-2 and have incompatible texture filtering.
When I use scanner.render(document.getElementById("scanner"));, I can see that the canvas is rendered, but not in the correct location. Please see my added screenshot for the result:
At this point I'm stuck. I dont know how I can achieve that the canvas is rendered in the correct div.

After searching Google for a while longer, I found a solution.
The onRender: function() { } "gets triggered when the View's DOM subtree is prepared for insertion into the DOM but before those elements are viewable", according to this webiste.
after changing onRender to onShow in my javascript file, the canvas element is rendered in the correct location.

JS load image on click

I need to load an image, js need to get link url and print this image on screen.
But it is not working.
What is wrong with my script? what can I do to make it work and improve it?
html
<div id=img></div>
<div id=loading></div>
<a href=http://png-5.findicons.com/files/icons/1580/devine_icons_part_2/128/my_computer.png class=postmini>Open image 1</a>
<br>
<a href=http://www.iconshock.com/img_jpg/BETA/communications/jpg/256/smile_icon.jpg class=postmini>Open image 2</a>
js
$(function() {
$(".postmini").click(function(){
var element = $(this);
var I = element.attr("href");
$("#loading").html('<img src="loader.gif" align="absmiddle"> loading...');
$("#loading").ajaxComplete(function(){}).slideUp();
$("#img").append(I);
});
});
https://jsfiddle.net/u6j2udzb/
and this loading div, what I need to do to make it work properly?

You are missing a lot and have a lot you don't need. I have commented out where you don't need items. In particular you don't need a loading because the image will be there before they see that. However, if you do want it still, you should be loading it underneath the image you are loading. So it gets covered by the image. I can update it with that if you'd like.
What you are missing is actual code to turn the href into an image source and you are not removing the default action of the anchor tag so it doesn't try loading a new page when clicked.
$(".postmini").click(function(event){
event.preventDefault();
var element = $(this);
var I = element.attr("href");
//$("#loading").html('loading...');
//$("#loading").ajaxComplete(function(){}).slideUp();
// remove old image if it is already there.
$("#img").empty();
// create variable holding the image src from the href link
var img = $("<img/>").attr("src", I)
$("#img").append(img);
});
https://jsfiddle.net/3g8ujLvd/

You just have to insert an img tag into your "display div" on click on the link... to load the image... (btw your syntax errors are terrible... you have to use quotes for attributes^^)
like this for example :
$('.postmini').on('click',function(){
//do something
});
Check this : https://jsfiddle.net/u6j2udzb/8/
(done quickly for example)
Hope it helps

You are not running an ajax script. ajaxComplete is only fired after an ajax script completed.
Whenever an Ajax request completes, jQuery triggers the ajaxComplete
event. Any and all handlers that have been registered with the
.ajaxComplete() method are executed at this time.
You should ad an ajax script and than ajaxComplete will run if you registered the ajaxComplete method.

At the moment you're just placing the text from the "href" attribute on the link into the div. You need to either create an image or use the link provided as a background.
The quickest way to see this is to change make this change:
var element = $(this);
var I = element.attr("href");
$("#loading").html('<img src="loader.gif" align="absmiddle"> loading...');
$("#loading").ajaxComplete(function(){}).slideUp();
// $("#img").append(I);
$("#img").html("<img src='"+I+"' />");

$('.postmini').on('click',function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$('#loading').html('<img src="'+this.href+'">').children('img').one('load',function(){$(this).parent().slideUp('slow');});
});
Noticed I used on instead of click this allows you to use this.href rather than a more lengthy $(this).attr('href'). I also used .one on a child image element to find out if the image has loaded.
But I've just realised that this is useless because you want to have a loader. Ma bad.
$('.postmini').on('click',function(e){
e.preventDefault();
//best have the loader.gif showing on default before the load is complete.
var img=$('<img class="loadedImage">');
img.src=this.href;
//img.css({display:none;});//remove this if you've enter CSS .loadedImage{display:none;}
$('#loading').append(img).slideDown('slow',function(){$(this).children('.loadedImage').one('load',function(){$(this).fadeIn('slow');$(this).siblings('img[src="loader.gif"]').hide();});});
});
This method is what you're looking for. Basically you want to click the link, stop the default action of going to the link, make a new image element and set the src, make sure it's hidden before load, add the new image element to loading, slide up parent loading, check for load and fade in :)

Try and run this simple snippet
$('#myButton').click(()=>{
let imgUrl = $('#imgUrl').val();
$.get(imgUrl)
.done(() => {
$('img').attr('src', imgUrl);
$('#imgText').text('');
})
.fail(() => {
$('#imgText').text('Image does not exist');
$('img').attr('src', '');
})
})
img {
width: 100%;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
Image url: <input type="text" id="imgUrl" value="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Woman_mechanic_working_on_engine_%28cropped%29.jpeg"><br>
<button id="myButton" type="button">click here to load image</button>
<div id="imgText"></div>
<img>

How to update bootstrap popover text?

I am using bootstrap-popover to show a message beside an element.
If I want to show different text in the popover after the first time, the text does not change. Re instantiating the popover with new text does not overwrite.
See this js fiddle for a live example:
http://jsfiddle.net/RFzvp/1/
(The message in the alert and the message in the dom is inconsistent after the first click)
The documentation is a bit light on how to unbind: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#popovers
Am I using this wrong? The Any suggestions on how to work around?
Thanks

You can access the options directly using the jquery data closure dictionary like this:
$('a#test').data('bs.popover').options.content = 'new content';
This code should work fine even after first initializing the popover.

Hiya please see working demo here: http://jsfiddle.net/4g3Py/1/
I have made the changes to get your desired outcome. :)
I reckon you already know what you are doing but some example recommendations from my end as follows for sample: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74874/test_scripts/popover/index.html# - sharing this link to give you idea for different link with different pop-over if you will see the source notice attribute data-content but what you wanted is working by the following changes.
Have a nice one and hope this helps. D'uh don't forget to up vote and accept the answer :)
Jquery Code
var i = 0;
$('a#test').click(function() {
i += 1;
$('a#test').popover({
trigger: 'manual',
placement: 'right',
content: function() {
var message = "Count is" + i;
return message;
}
});
$('a#test').popover("show");
});​
HTML
<a id="test">Click me</a>
​

just in-case anyone's looking for a solution that doesn't involve re-instantiating the popover and just want to change the content html, have a look at this:
$('a#test').data('popover').$tip.find(".popover-content").html("<div>some new content yo</div>")
Update: At some point between this answer being written and Bootstrap 3.2.0 (I suspect at 3.0?) this changed a little, to:
$('a#test').data('bs.popover').tip().find ............

Old question, but since I notice that the no answer provides the correct way and this is a common question, I'd like to update it.
Use the $("a#test").popover("destroy");-method. Fiddle here.
This will destroy the old popover and enable you to connect a new one again the regular way.
Here's an example where you can click a button to set a new popover on an object that already has a popover attached. See fiddle for more detail.
$("button.setNewPopoverContent").on("click", function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$(".popoverObject").popover("destroy").popover({
title: "New title"
content: "New content"
);
});

The question is more than one year old, but maybe this would be usefull for others.
If the content is only changed while the popover is hidden, the easiest way I've found is using a function and a bit of JS code.
Specifically, my HTML looks like:
<input id="test" data-toggle="popover"
data-placement="bottom" data-trigger="focus" />
<div id="popover-content" style="display: none">
<!-- Hidden div with the popover content -->
<p>This is the popover content</p>
</div>
Please note no data-content is specified. In JS, when the popover is created, a function is used for the content:
$('test').popover({
html: true,
content: function() { return $('#popover-content').html(); }
});
And now you can change anywhere the popover-content div and the popover will be updated the next time is shown:
$('#popover-content').html("<p>New content</p>");
I guess this idea will also work using plain text instead of HTML.

On Boostrap 4 it is just one line:
$("#your-element").attr("data-content", "your new popover content")

You can always directly modify the DOM:
$('a#test').next(".popover").find(".popover-content").html("Content");
For example, if you want a popover that will load some data from an API and display that in the popover's content on hover:
$("#myPopover").popover({
trigger: 'hover'
}).on('shown.bs.popover', function () {
var popover = $(this);
var contentEl = popover.next(".popover").find(".popover-content");
// Show spinner while waiting for data to be fetched
contentEl.html("<i class='fa fa-spinner fa-pulse fa-2x fa-fw'></i>");
var myParameter = popover.data('api-parameter');
$.getJSON("http://ipinfo.io/" + myParameter)
.done(function (data) {
var result = '';
if (data.org) {
result += data.org + '<br>';
}
if (data.city) {
result += data.city + ', ';
}
if (data.region) {
result += data.region + ' ';
}
if (data.country) {
result += data.country;
}
if (result == '') {
result = "No info found.";
}
contentEl.html(result);
}).fail(function (data) {
result = "No info found.";
contentEl.html(result);
});
});
<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.6.3/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
Hover here for details on IP 151.101.1.69
This assumes that you trust the data supplied by the API. If not, you will need to escape the data returned to mitigate XSS attacks.

Learn't from previous answers
let popOverOptions = {
trigger: 'click',
...
};
// save popOver instance
let popOver = $(`#popover-unique-id`).popover(popOverOptions);
// get its data
let popOverData = popOver.data('bs.popover');
// load data dynamically (may be with AJAX call)
$(`#popover-unique-id`).on('shown.bs.popover', () => {
setTimeout(() => {
// set content, title etc...
popOverData.config.content = 'content/////////';
// updata the popup in realtime or else this will be shown next time opens
popOverData.setContent();
// Can add this if necessary for position correction:
popOver._popper.update();
}, 2000);
});
This way we can update popover content easily.
There's another way using destroy method.
http://jsfiddle.net/bj5ryvop/5/

Bootstrap 5.0 update
let popoverInstance = new bootstrap.Popover($('#element'));
And then:
popoverInstance._config.content = "Hello world";
popoverInstance.setContent();
(Caution: it will update popover content globally, so if you have multiple open popovers then they all will be updated with "Hello world")

I found Bootstrap popover content cannot changed dynamically which introduces the setContent function. My code (hopefully helpful to someone) is therefore:
(Noting that jquery data() isn't so good at setting as it is getting)
// Update basket
current = $('#basketPopover').data('content');
newbasket = current.replace(/\d+/i,parseInt(data));
$('#basketPopover').attr('data-content',newbasket);
$('#basketPopover').setContent();
$('#basketPopover').$tip.addClass(popover.options.placement);

if jQuery > 4.1 use
$("#popoverId").popover("dispose").popover({
title: "Your new title"
content: "Your new content"
);

Bootstrap 5.1
I tried about 8 different ways to change the content for my Bootstrap 5.1 project, but none worked. I could see the values in the underlying popover object and could change them, but they didn't show on the page.
I got it going by first using the Bootstrap Popover's selector option, which the docs don't explain that well, but basically amounts to putting a watch on the page, so if new popover elements are added to the page (with the selector) they will become popovers automatically.
$(function() {
// set up all popovers
new bootstrap.Popover(document.body, {selector: 'has-popover');
})
then in my ajax call where some different content has been fetched, I remove the existing popover div, change the attribute with the text, and add it again:
var $pop = $('#pop_id1234')
var html = $pop[0].outerHTML // save the HTML
$pop.remove()
var $new = $(html).attr('data-bs-content',popoverText) // data('bs-content') becomes bsContent which won't work
$('#pop-container').append($new)

How do I use colorbox to show hidden divs on my page without hardcoding?

I'm using Colorbox to show the html content of hidden divs on my page. I can get this to work perfectly with the following:
$("a.colorbox").colorbox({width:"600px", inline:true, href:"#344"});
This will show the div with the ID of 344.
However, because I'm trying to build a scalable and dynamic page with WordPress, I want to be able to grab the ID of my divs through a function, rather than hard code them in the jquery call.
I modified Jack Moore's example:
$("a[rel='example']").colorbox({title: function(){
var url = $(this).attr('href');
return 'Open In New Window';
}});
so that it looks like this:
$(".colorbox").colorbox({width:"600px", inline:true, href:function(){
var elementID = $(this).attr('id');
return elementID;
}});
The problem with this is that the href property of the colorbox function is looking for a string with a # mark infront of the ID. I tried various ways of concatenating the # to the front of the function, including the # in the return value, and concatenating the # to the elementID variable. No luck.
I also tried using the syntax in Jack's example (with no luck) so that my return statement looked like this:
return "#'+elementID+'";
I think my basic question is: How do I use colorbox to show hidden divs on my page without hardcoding everything?
Thanks for your help,
Jiert

I didn't really like any of the answers given above. This is how I did it (similar but not quite the same).
I also fully commented it for people a bit new to Javascript and the colorbox plug in.
$(document).ready(function() { //waits until the DOM has finished loading
if ($('a.lightboxTrigger').length){ //checks to see if there is a lightbox trigger on the page
$('a.lightboxTrigger').each(function(){ //for every lightbox trigger on the page...
var url = $(this).attr("href"); // sets the link url as the target div of the lightbox
$(url).hide(); //hides the lightbox content div
$(this).colorbox({
inline:true, // so it knows that it's looking for an internal href
href:url, // tells it which content to show
width:"70%",
onOpen:function(){ //triggers a callback when the lightbox opens
$(url).show(); //when the lightbox opens, show the content div
},
onCleanup:function(){
$(url).hide(); //hides the content div when the lightbox closes
}
}).attr("href","javascript:void(0)"); //swaps the href out with a javascript:void(0) after it's saved the href to the url variable to stop the browser doing anything with the link other than launching the lightbox when clicked
//you could also use "return false" for the same effect but I proffered that way
})
}
});
And this is the html:
<a class="lightboxTrigger" href="#lightboxContent">Lightbox trigger</a>
<div id="lightboxContent" class="lightboxContent"> <!-- the class is just to make it easier to style with css if you have multiple lightboxes on the same page -->
<p>Lightbox content goes here</p>
</div>
I think it would work with multiple lightboxes on the one page but I haven't tested it with that.

I'm facing the same issue. What does your html look like? meaning, how did you structure your "divs"
Mine looks like this:
Javascript:
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
$("a.colorbox").colorbox({ width: "50%", inline: true, href: function () {
var elementID = $(this).attr('id');
return "#" + elementID;
}
});
});
</script>
And the html looks like (I tried changing the display:none):
<a class='colorbox' href="#">Inline HTML</a>
<div style="display:none">
<div id="pop">
This data is to be displayed in colorbox
</div>
</div>

return "#" + elementID;
will have the desired effect as David says.

This is the way I got it to work
HTML: (taken from the example in one of the answers)
<a class="lightboxTrigger" href="#lightboxContent">Lightbox trigger</a>
<div id="lightboxContent" class="lightboxContent"> <!-- the class is just to make it easier to style with css if you have multiple lightboxes on the same page -->
<p>Lightbox content goes here</p>
</div>
Javascript:
$('a.lightboxTrigger').click(function(){
var ref = $(this).attr("href");
$.colorbox({ html: $(ref).html() });
$.colorbox.resize();
});