[Opensource] Submitting forms with text links instead of butt ons?

[D Lloyd]

So was I.  I am looking at changing the transition tag or creating another
because I have hit the same thing and have had to kludge my links with
parameters I needed.  However, I have not had to sumit other form data
with them.  If you don't need the form data (which I thought you did based
on earlier statements) then creating links are possible:

<a href="Client.do?jsessionid=XXX&state=view&cid=234&db=default">Edit</a>

I usually can do this in a loop getting Transitions from a logic:iterate
and bean:write where the property are /edit.url and /edit.label but it is
still VERY messy.

-David L.


--- DComeau at xenos.com wrote:
>  
> Ok, I was thinking that maybe I could somehow use the onClick property
> of
> the href link and call a Javascript method that did a form.submit, but
> it
> gets tricky because of the way Expresso parses the parameters associated
> with a paticular transition's button.
>  
> But I wanted to see if anyone had ever tried this.  Just want to see if
> I am
> asking for trouble if I go ahead and attempt this.  I think it could be
> done, I just don't have lots of time to spend on it.
>  
> I noticed that the login Jsp has a snippet of javascript that messes
> around
> with form submission, so that's kinda what got me thinking about this.
>  
> Dave.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thompson, Kris [mailto:kris.thompson at seurat.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 9:56 AM
> To: opensource at jcorporate.com
> Subject: RE: [Opensource] Submitting forms with text links instead of
> buttons?
> 
> 
> As mentioned earlier exLink works too but I don't think it can pass
> parameters, that is why this tag exist.
>  
> And to your question.  This will not submit the form.  I don't now how
> to
> make an href submit a form, regardless of expresso. It is my
> understanding
> that if you want to submit the contents of a form you need to use the
> <input> tag and it does not have a href type so I don't think you can
> even
> do what you are asking.
>  
>   You can use the TransistionTag for HTML buttons instead of images and
> you
> can use the TransitionParamsTag for html buttons that need parameters to
> move along with it.  
>  
> Kris Thompson
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DComeau at xenos.com [mailto:DComeau at xenos.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 10:13 PM
> To: opensource at jcorporate.com
> Subject: RE: [Opensource] Submitting forms with text links instead of
> buttons?
> 
> 
> Cool thanks Kris, does this somehow submit the form?  So all of my Html
> fields will get sent too?
>  
> Dave
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Thompson, Kris [mailto:kris.thompson at seurat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 2:26 PM
> To: opensource at jcorporate.com
> Subject: RE: [Opensource] Submitting forms with text links instead of
> buttons?
> 
> 
> Yup they exist.  Try ExpressoLinkParamsTag
> <expresso:ExpressoLinkParamsTag href="/Login.do" name="Login" >
> Login</expresso:ExpressoLinkParamsTag>
>  
> Java code...
>  
> Transition login= new Transition();
>   login.setName("Login");
>   login.addParam("controller",
> "com.cohomefinder.controller.LoginController");
>   login.addParam("state", "promptLogin");
>   login.addParam("username", "Major Taylor"
>   response.add(login);
>  
> This code is in CVS HEAD.
>  
> Kris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DComeau at xenos.com [mailto:DComeau at xenos.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 9:08 AM
> To: opensource at jcorporate.com
> Subject: [Opensource] Submitting forms with text links instead of
> buttons?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> I'm tweaking the look and feel of my first Expresso app, and I've got
> several areas that are inconsitent when it comes to how I show
> transitions.
> 
> 
> Some times it's useful to just show text links ( <a href>'s ) and other
> times I've had to show a button so I can submit form data.
> 
> But what would be nice would be to replace some of the buttons with text
> links.  This would help me standarize the look and feel a bit more and
> it
> would save me time by not having to create image buttons for those
> transitions to make them fit in better.
> 
> So what I'm wondering is, has anyone on the list created a custom tag or
> other process of doing this?  I'm thinking with a bit of Javascript and
> a
> few cups of liquid Espresso, I should be able to creatively accomplish
> this.
> ;)
> 
> Any tips? 
> 
> Cheers, 
> Dave 
> 
> 


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David Lloyd - david at lloydhome.com  
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