You need to include the old form when extending otherwise hobo has no
idea what you mean by <contact:> (btw it should be contact-tag)
<extend tag="form" for="Sale">
<old-form merge>
<contact-tag:><name-one /> ...
You might want to read through the dryml guide
http://cookbook.hobocentral.net/manual/dryml-guide. it helped me get
a handle on parameters and attributes.
On Jun 23, 1:12 pm, oldlibmike <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I still don't quite understand it though.
> I have a sales table that :belongs_to contact.
> In the fields list for sales, there is "contact" which currently
> brings up a picklist of contacts - which doesn't work because there
> are over 10,000 of them.
>
> I tried overriding the contact field in application.dryml as:
>
> <extend tag="form" for="Sale">
> <contact:><name-one /></contact:
> </extend>
>
> For some reason, this causes my index page for sales to throw errors
> that method "contact" does not exist. I don't know why the form would
> impact the index page at all.
>
> I'm sure I'm missing some basic hobo concepts here. I'm rereading
> Kerouac for additional inspiration!
>
> Best Regards,
> Mike
>
> On Jun 23, 2:11 pm, kevinpfromnm <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > From the cookbook taglib docs (http://cookbook.hobocentral.net/
> > api_tag_defs/field-list) the param name for each input tag is #
> > {this_field.to_s.sub('?', '')}-tag, so you'd use something like <owner-
> > tag:><name-one />... in your override. I think you also need to setup
> > the controller ajax response as well.
>
> > On Jun 23, 11:53 am, oldlibmike <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I am getting further into my application and now find that I need to
> > > change some of my "pick lists" for owners to "name-one" due to the
> > > many possible entries.
>
> > > I cannot find any clear examples in the tutorials or documentation on
> > > exactly where and how I do form overrides.
>
> > > Do I create a "<extend tag="form" for "MyTable"> in application.dryml?
> > > How do I just change the input type for a "belongs-to" owner? The form
> > > defaults just use a field-list. Where and how do I control the type of
> > > input used for each field?
>
> > > Do I need to create an entire form from scratch if I don't want the
> > > default?
>
> > > I'd appreciate any guidance or examples!
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mike
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