Why won't partial refresh work

Question

Trying another XPages nested partial refresh on multiple items. The refresh is to happen when the combo list box named conTenderType value changes with the onChange event and refreshes the panels ContractWorkflowPanel and ContractDetailPanel. All the panels are in a djTabContainer. There is no requirement for rendering conditions on the target panel components. I have tried the script shown below in the Client javascript for conTenderType onChange event but it doesn't work. I have also tried changing onComplete to onStart etc. Why won't this work?

XSP.partialRefreshPost("#{id:conTenderType}", {
  onComplete: function() {
  XSP.partialRefreshGet("#{id:ContractWorkflowPanel}", {
      onComplete: function() { XSP.partialRefreshGet("#{id:ContractDetailPanel}"); }
  }) 
}
})

Thanks

What version of Notes/Domino are you using and which browsers have you tested in? — Michael G. Smith
Test the code in Firefox and activate Developer panel and see if you have any javascript errors — Fredrik Norling
@MichaelG.Smith - Domino release is 8.5.3 and browser is I.E 8 — AJF
As Frederik suggested, test in FF or Chrome. I'm pretty sure I've had issues with earlier versions of IE and onChange. — Michael G. Smith
@FredrikNorling - I have opened it in FireFox and opened what I think is the developer panel using "Shift" + F2 and it opens a small thin console at bottom browser. Im afraid I am not sure what to do now. The console has a JS button which I ensured was selected and I changed the Combo Box value and it did place an entry in the Javascript panel but nothing that I can use to help me!! — AJF

Paul Stephen Withers Paul Stephen Withers · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-03T11:49:21

Are there any validated fields? Unless "Process data without validation" is ticked, validation will occur. (The other way to prevent validation occurring is ticking "Do not validate or update data", but then you will not be updating the server-side component tree with the value the user has selected for the combo box, so there's no point setting that.)

If no execId is set, all controls on the page are validated. If validation fails, the only update sent back to the browser will be error messages for the validation failures.

I would always advise ensuring your refresh area includes an Error Messages control, so you know if validation has failed. If you don't need to validate, tick "Process data without validation". If you do, and you don't want to refresh an area including an Error Messages control, you'll need to set execId, but you'll need to read about and understand what that does, to ensure values entered by the user are updated as required and not overwritten by the response to the browser.

Why won't partial refresh work

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