Re: form widgets

Posted by Scott Gray on Feb 20, 2007; 4:35am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/form-widgets-tp144656p144660.html

Hi Al, Christopher

Al, I think Christopher is asking why the form still works if he removes
list-name="examples" from the form element.

Christopher, as far as I can see having the list-name attribute isn't
necessary in this case because of the entity-condition action (whose
results are used regardless of what you do).  Even if you passed the
form a list called examples, the entity-condition results would replace it.

Regards
Scott

Al Byers wrote:

> Christopher,
>
> I am confused. What is this below:
>
>   <form name="ListExamples" type="list" list-name="examples"
> paginate-target="FindExample"
>
> Did you not see this or am i missing something?
>
> -Al
>
> On 2/19/07, Christopher Snow <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> Al,
>>
>> I'm confused.  The list-name "examples" isn't referred to anywhere in
>> the form.  In fact, the form works ok without the list-name attribute in
>> the form.
>>
>> ? :(
>>
>> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 10:16 -0700, Al Byers wrote:
>> > Christopher,
>> >
>> > In this case the "entity-condition" op gets the list-name from the
>> "form"
>> > element and puts the list if gets there. And since that is the
>> variable
>> that
>> > the form expects to find the list info in, it works out.
>> >
>> > -Al
>> >
>> > On 2/19/07, Christopher Snow <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I'm struggling with form-widgets:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > <xs:attribute type="xs:string" name="list-name">
>> > >     <xs:annotation><xs:documentation>for list type and other
>> multiple
>> > > data/form types this is the name of the list in the context to
>> iterate
>> > > over</xs:documentation></xs:annotation>
>> > > </xs:attribute>
>> > >
>> > > How does the list get put in the context?  Is it put into the
>> context
>> by
>> > > <actions> (see below for the example app)?
>> > > Is it redundant in ListExamples as it is not being referred to
>> anywhere?
>> > >
>> > > Many thanks,
>> > >
>> > > Chris
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >     <form name="ListExamples" type="list" list-name="examples"
>> > > paginate-target="FindExample"
>> > >              default-title-style="tableheadtext"
>> > > default-widget-style="tabletext" default-tooltip-style="tabletext">
>> > >         <actions>
>> > >             <entity-condition entity-name="Example">
>> > >                 <order-by field-name="description"/>
>> > >             </entity-condition>
>> > >         </actions>
>> > >
>> > >         <field name="exampleId"
>> title="${uiLabelMap.ExampleExampleId}"
>> > > widget-style="buttontext">
>> > >             <hyperlink also-hidden="false"
>> description="${exampleId}"
>> > > target="EditExample?exampleId=${exampleId}"/>
>> > >         </field>
>> > >         <field name="exampleName" title="${uiLabelMap.CommonName
>> > > }"><display/></field>
>> > >         <field name="exampleTypeId" title="${uiLabelMap.CommonType
>> }"><display-entity
>> > > entity-name="ExampleType"/></field>
>> > >         <field name="statusId" title="${uiLabelMap.CommonStatus
>> }"><display-entity
>> > > entity-name="StatusItem"/></field>
>> > >         <field name="description" title="${
>> uiLabelMap.CommonDescription
>> > > }"><display/></field>
>> > >     </form>
>> > >
>> >
>>
>