On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 11:12 +0100, Reinhard Poetz wrote:
> Upayavira wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to put two forms onto one page.
> >
> > Scenario: a homepage showing a selection of 'products', displayed as a
> > repeater on a form, and a login form.
> >
> > These need to be separate HTML forms, so that typing into a box and
> > pressing enter submits the relevant form.
> >
> > Is there a way to do this without having to go all the way and aggregate
> > two completely separate pipelines? Having to do the this for just one
> > page would be a real pain.
> >
> > Thanks for any ideas.
>
> AFAIK this is an open issue for cForms. Therefore I move it over to dev-list.
>
> I think one problem is our flowscript API:
>
> var form = new Form("...");
> form.show("mypipeline", bizdata);
>
> This way you can only show one form a page. Maybe we can do somethink like
>
> var multiform = new Multiform({form1 : form1, form2 : form2);
> multiform.show("myMultiformPipeline", bizdata);
>
> The next step would have to be an enhancement of the forms transformer
> because
> it would have to render more than one form. This would probably require a
> unique
> id in the forms template. This id needs to be the same as the id used in "new
> Multiform(...)".
The forms transformer can handle this, the ft:form-template element can
have a location attribute containing a jxpath expression that points to
the form object.
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