ahhhh I see. Soam I adding scrope="session" to the Form Bean or the Action Mapping?
On 5/6/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I do have redirect="true" set on the actionMapping that brings me to > this > > page, and tthe browser should be caching field values. > > > > the weird thing is this works in other places > > If you want to keep redirect="true" (I personally prefer redirects for > better user experience), then you may want to set scope="session" for > your form. > > This should not work in other places. Maybe your other forms have > session scope or somehow browser thinks that it can cache those pages? > > > > You need to include hidden files for any static text properties. > > > > > > Typically I have <bean:write name="form" property="property" > > > /><html:hidden name="form" property="property" /> > > > > > > NOTE: this should not be done for input fields > > > > > > <html:text name="form" property="property" /> <!-- do not include a > hidden > > > field for this property --> > > > > > I actually am for one of the properties. > > In the page I have : > > <html-el:hidden property="queryName" value="${queryName}"/> > > and in the Action Class (right before the reditrct to this page) > > request.setAttribute("queryName",queryName); > > and it shows fine in view--> source. > > thn if I submit the form (wiuth an error) the hidden field is **not** > > populated > > It will not be populated. You redirect to the page, that is, you > reload the page from the server using empty GET request with no query > parameters. Struts cannot populate your form bean since there is no > input data. So it just shows you JSP using current form field values. > If your form has request scope, it is recreated for each request, so > there are no values in it. > > Do not use hidden fields. You started well using redirection to the > View ;-) Just change scope of your form to "session", and it will > retain values for you. But now you would have to clean unneeded values > in the reset() method. It is a bit of a hassle, but it works better > for an end user, and you do not need to pass viewstate in hidden HTML > fields. > > Maybe you will find this useful: > http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsCatalogRedirectToInputPage > http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsMultipleActionForms > > Michael. > -- -Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED]