[Opensource] Adding a Transition to Browse

[Michael Rimov]

At 10:42 AM 11/4/2002 -0800, you wrote:

>Mike
>
>Thanks for the feedback.
>
>Yes I have gotten confused by the multiple ways to do basically the same 
>thing. I'm still trying to sort out when to use the Struts-based tags or 
>the Expresso tags.
>
>Based on your comments, I went back to rework my browse/edit page using 
>expresso tags. I've got it working now, but one thing that had me baffled 
>for a while is that it appears that when you use the 
><expresso:ElementCollection "><expresso:ElementIterator> tags you have to 
>Iterate at every level, e.g., if you have a set of blocks (rows) and each 
>block has inputs, output and transitions, you have iterate the blocks and 
>the contained elements. I wasn't able to access the contained elements of 
>each block individually as I expected.
>
>I must also say as a fairly new Expresso user, life would be a lot easier 
>with more comprehensive docs. The tag docs in particular are rather 
>sparse. A lot of my learning has been thru trail and error and error and 
>error. Who knew that if you wanted to have a checkbox <expresso:InputTag 
>type="checkbox" />, that the dbobj had to define a valid value? Spent an 
>hour or two on that one alone. In order to get corporate acceptance, 
>Expresso needs to get a lot better documented. It would be a real hard 
>sell in my company right now.


Dan,

Docs keep improving.  We added probably about 100 pages of docs this 
release alone.  If you would like to write down your experiences as you 
come across them and send them into support, they will definitely be 
included in the documentation.

                                                 -Mike