Trying to set state of BS accordian in viewscope from CSJS but value is always the same (and not correct)

Question

on my XPage I have a BS accordian defined:

<div class="panel-collapse collapse in" id="collapseOne" aria-expanded="true" style="">
</div>

on an button I would like to save the state of the panel, so after a full refresh I would like to display the accordian panel in it's previous state.

So my button looks now as followed:

<xp:button
        value="Label"
        id="button1">
    <xp:eventHandler
        event="onclick"
        submit="true"
        refreshMode="complete">
        <xp:this.script><![CDATA[if ($('#collapseOne').attr('aria-expanded') == "false") {
"#{javascript:viewScope.put('accordian','collapsed')}";
}else{
"#{javascript:viewScope.put('accordian','expanded')}";
}]]></xp:this.script>
    </xp:eventHandler>
</xp:button>

Whatever state the accordian is the viewScope 'accordian' is set to 'expanded' eventhough the script identifies the correct state of the accordian.

What am I doing wrong?

Update:

I set up as suggested an RPC service but it does not work. what am I doing wrong?

<xe:jsonRpcService
                                id="rpcServiceSetState">
                            <xe:this.methods>
                                <xe:remoteMethod
                                    name="setPanelState"
                                    loaded="true"
                                    script="viewScope.put('accordian', state)">
                                    <xe:this.arguments>
                                        <xe:remoteMethodArg
                                            name="state"
                                            type="string">
                                        </xe:remoteMethodArg>
                                    </xe:this.arguments>
                                </xe:remoteMethod>
                            </xe:this.methods></xe:jsonRpcService>
                            <xp:button id="btnTriggerRPC" value="Trigger RPC Method">
        <xp:eventHandler
            event="onclick"
            submit="true" refreshMode="complete">
            <xp:this.script><![CDATA[if ($('#collapseOne').attr('aria-expanded') == "false") {
    rpcServiceSetState.setPanelState('collapsed')
}else{
    rpcServiceSetState.setPanelState('expanded')
}]]></xp:this.script>
        </xp:eventHandler>
                            </xp:button>

The SSJS code is always executed when the CSJS code is generated and sent to the client. That's why accordian is always set to expanded. — Sven Hasselbach
but if add an alert for the if else construction it detects the state and alerts the correct state? is there anyway to work around/solve this? — Malin
The if/else - block is executed in the browser, that's why an alert works. If you want to update the server side state you need to update it, for example with a RPC call. — Sven Hasselbach
The JSON RPC service won't help with this though, because the component tree doesn't get updated intec.co.uk/…. — Paul Stephen Withers
Hi Sven, I updated my question with suggested rpc method but I must be doing something wrong here? — Malin

Patrick Kwinten Patrick Kwinten · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-06T14:24:04

this code below allows me to set a viewscope via RPC service?

<xe:jsonRpcService id="jsonRpcServiceSelected"
        serviceName="rpcService" rendered="true">
        <xe:this.methods>
            <xe:remoteMethod name="setAccordion"
                script="viewScope.put('accordion', selected);">
                <xe:this.arguments>
                    <xe:remoteMethodArg name="selected" type="string" />
                </xe:this.arguments>
            </xe:remoteMethod>

        </xe:this.methods>
    </xe:jsonRpcService>
<xp:button id="btnTriggerRPC" value="Trigger RPC Method">
        <xp:eventHandler
            event="onclick"
            submit="true"
            refreshMode="complete">
            <xp:this.script><![CDATA[if ($('#collapseOne').attr('aria-expanded') == "false") {
rpcService.setAccordion('collapsed');

}else{

    rpcService.setAccordion('expanded');
}]]></xp:this.script>
        </xp:eventHandler>
</xp:button>

Trying to set state of BS accordian in viewscope from CSJS but value is always the same (and not correct)

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