Bruce the idea is to break up the long form into separate forms, one in each tab. The user moves through the tabs filling in the different forms then on the last tab you can send the information from all forms to the server at once.
Flex isn't like html - you don't need everything to be in the same form to be able to send the data to the server. Use forms for layout, give each form an ID. When the last form is complete (and any validation is OK), use the button handler that sends the information to the server to collect together the data from each of the separate forms (it can access the form fields via the form id - formName.fieldName - and send it to the server. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "brucewhealton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 7:25 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 3 Layout of long form > At the risk of sounding too ignorant, do you mean put the tabs within > the Form tag/class? I guess you would have to do it that way to make > sure it is all part of the same form, so that after they go through > all the form fields, either by going from one accordion area or tab > area to the next, everything needs to be kept and then sent to the one > form processor. > > You don't want to lose the data when moving between accordion areas or > tab areas (what's the best word for this instead of tab areas, tab > containers, accordion containers, I guess). I suppose there is no > reason why one couldn't have multiple containers within the same Form > component, right? > Bruce > > --- In [email protected], "Pedro Sena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I think that the best way to make a long form is structure it like a > wizard. >> >> Like was said, divide it into logical groups and make it sequential, > using >> tabs to group the logical groups would be nice too. >> >> Just my 2 cents. >> >> Regards, >> >> PS >> >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Howard Fore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:46 PM, brucewhealton < >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> So, I'm wondering about some other ways of wrapping and > presenting all >> >> of this. >> >> 1) The form tag is required, is it not? And the FormItem tag? I know >> >> there are other layout options but there must be these tags, or am I >> >> mistaken? >> > >> > >> > Um, required for what? The form/formitem/formheading elements are > AFAIK >> > just there to give you some easy graphical structure for a form > type screen. >> > That's it. >> > >> > >> > >> >> 2) Assuming that is true, then all the fields, labels, form elements >> >> and the submit button must be inside the same Form tag, correct? >> > >> > >> > I think FormItem and FormHeading have to be in a Form but that's it. >> > >> > >> >> 3) If the form is long, how would I use either Accordion features, or >> >> view states or something else to allow easier presentation of >> >> different segments of the form? In other words, I don't want this >> >> going on for 20+ items, including TextAreas, as that could be long. >> > >> > >> > Break the questions into logical groups, then put then in different >> > sections of the accordion. >> > >> > >> >> Lastly, would ColdFusion work better with this than PHP? >> > >> > >> > While I'm a ColdFusion programmer professionally, I'm certain that > you can >> > do what you want with PHP. I'm unclear of the methods available to > PHP to >> > pipe data back and forth (other than HTTPService, which would > treat your PHP >> > page as a webservice I think). There are some neat things that you > can do >> > with CF and the Flash Remoting capabilities that Adobe has built > for it but >> > I don't see that those would be requirements for what you've set > out here. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > "The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it." - Jeff > Atwood >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> /** >> * Pedro Sena >> * Systems Architect >> * Sun Certified Java Programmer >> * Sun Certified Web Component Developer >> * >> * Net Sar >> * www.netsar.com.br >> */ >> > > > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Alternative FAQ location: > https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups > Links > > > >
