I don't like repeaters. They are too clumsy. The biggest drawback is an inability to access values after the repeater has finish executing. It's not the same as, for example, looping over values and generating static HTML using ColdFusion. I seem to always end up having to navigate up and down through the parents/children of the objects and storing values I need in properties like name, automationName, etc. This is clumsy and messy.
As an example, I have a section of my application where I want to list the names of people from a table, and for each person generate a set of checkboxes that designate access to certain areas of the application. For example: http://www.ubeek.com/images/staffrepeater.jpg That is one main repeater that loops through the staff (records returned from remoteObject) and inside that repeater two other repeaters (also from remoteObjects) that generate the checkboxes. I can't simply pass the primary key of the staff for which the Save button was clicked, by putting click="saveClick({staffRepeater.currentItem.SEQ})" into the button object. When I do that and click it I get an error about "repeater is not currently executing" or something like that. I don't want to resort to a datagrid and then "click to edit" then bring up a form kind of process. I want it as few clicks as possible. Is there a better way to display data in a custom way like this, without using repeaters, so that I can more easily access the child objects and their properties? Thanks, Paul
