Hi Wendy, Thanks for responding! Someone showed me a way to do what I needed to do, but the way I'm approaching the entire problem may be kludged:
The user can click Search Attributes | Search Components | Search Templates I've provided html:link's like these respectively: doPrepareSearch.do?searchType=attribute | doPrepareSearch.do?searchType=component | doPrepareSearch.do?searchType=template so when they user lands on my form, I want to prepopulate the search type based on what they chose. If they submit a search with bad data, then I'd want the SearchForm's (extends ActionForm) validate() method to send the back to the search form, this time keeping their most recent entries to the form field -- if they changed search type for example now it would be different. I am new to Struts and may not be getting a key concept of it's Best Practices usage. Does it make sense what I've described? Thanks again!, Jim -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 2:03 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: newbie html-el question From: Bender, James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I am trying to display a value from a requestAttribute in an <html-el:text > ...> but I can't get it to work. Here is my code: > <html-el:text: property="searchType" > value="<%=request.getAttribute("searchType")%>"/> > > I recieve the error: > "Attribute searchType has no value" > Someone told me I have to do something more like this: > <html-el:text property="searchType" value="${searchType}"/> > > but where would I define the variable searchType that is > accessed there? You wouldn't, you'd set the property of the Form bean and let Struts handle it. If you need to pre-populate the form, you do that in the Action by calling setSearchType() on your Form bean. Then when you forward to the JSP, Struts will fill in the value. Can you explain more about your situation? I'm making some assumptions that may not be correct. In general there's no need to touch the 'value' attribute of the tags that render HTML form elements. -- Wendy Smoak Application Systems Analyst, Sr. ASU IA Information Resources Management --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
