Hi there, I am currently working on a system using cocoon 2.1.11. Using the patch provided here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-2032 I was able to get the repeater-action widgets using the “sort-by” command to toggle between sorting in ascending and descending order and turning sorting off. I wanted to add a visualizer in so that when a user clicks on the widget to perform a new sort, an image is appended indicating which way it is being sorted.
I tried to introduce this functionality through the flow script and discovered that this was an issue because when the client clicks on the sorting widget, it does not communicate with the server. I verified this by unplugging the internet and testing both the sorting and page-navigation buttons, which all functioned correctly without any internet connection. This means I will need an entirely client-side solution update the visualization as the user sorts by different fields. I realized I could use cookies, but this would require a lot of over head to track every widget’s sort state as they change. I also realized that there must be some client-side mechanism for tracking this information already, but I don’t have any idea what it is. Is there some sort of client-side equivalent to the Form.getChild(String) function, or some completely different way that I can track the widgets’ attributes’ values from the client side. thanks, George Doyle
