Fuji: UI Pages are cached?

[xMTinkerer]

Hello developer peoples!

  I have a ui page that I can't seem to make updates to. The UI page is called from a UI Action using this code:

function addRecipients(){
   //Get the table name and sys_id of the record
     var tableName = g_form.getTableName();
     var sysID = g_form.getUniqueValue();

     //Open a dialog window to select Approval Groups
     var dialog = new GlideDialogWindow( 'xm_add_recipients' );
     dialog.setTitle('Add Recipients');
   // If we needed to pass info from here to the UI page...
   // dialog.setPreference('sysparm_parm1', 'stuff here');

     dialog.render();
     //Make sure to not submit the form when button gets clicked
     return false;
}

The UI Page itself has a ui_slushbucketon it, but I can get the same results without the slushbucket. For example, if this is my HTML in the UI Page:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">


   <g:ui_form>
     some stuff goes here
 </g:ui_form>
</j:jelly>

Then I change it to this and hit save

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">
   <g:ui_form>
     Other stuff goes here
 </g:ui_form>
</j:jelly>

The dialog still shows "some stuff goes here". The only way I can get it to change is to delete the UI Page and recreate from scratch with the new changes.

I know I am editing the right UI Page because if I add an onLoad "alert" call, I see the alert displayed as expected. It seems that only the html part of the UI Page is cached??

Any ideas?

[tltoulson · Accepted solution]

Hi Travis,

In the navigation filter, type cache.do or navigate to the cache.do page to clear the cache after you update the page.

[xMTinkerer]

Awesome. That did it.

Seems to be different behavior in Eureka? I could make changes without having to clear the cache.

[tltoulson]

That is strange.   According to the wiki using phase 1 jelly (j and g instead of j2/g2) is not supposed to be cached on UI Pages.   I searched the Fuji release notes but saw nothing about this change.   If intended, its a pretty nice change in my opinion.   Caching of UI Pages could be a useful tool.

[Slava Savitsky]

This seems to have been fixed in Fuji Patch1. At least, this is what I came across in the release notes:

PRB621068: Edits to a UI page require a cache flush (cache.do) for changes to be effective

Release:Fuji Patch 1 - ServiceNow Wiki