It's only partially working, though.  I'm only getting the field-
list.  I had to copy the rest of the auto generated code from
forms.dryml to make it work.

extend tag="form" for="User">
  <old-form merge>
      <error-messages param/>
      <field-list fields="name, email_address, administrator,
birthday" param>
          <birthday-view:>
              <input merge include-blank="&false" start-
year="&Time.now.year - 100" end-year="&Time.now.year"/>
          </birthday-view:>
      </field-list>
      <div param="actions">
          <submit label="Save" param/><or-cancel param="cancel"/>
      </div>
  </old-form>
</extend>


Since I'm copying and pasting out of forms.dryml, it seems there's a
lot of RY in my DRYml

Hopefully someone else can show me what I'm doing wrong

On Jul 18, 9:48 pm, bryan <[email protected]> wrote:
> YAY!!!  You got me on the right track:
>
> <extend tag="input" for="date">
>    <old-input merge include-blank="&true" order="month,day,year"/>
> </extend>
>
> <extend tag="form" for="User">
>   <old-form merge>
>       <field-list fields="name, email_address, administrator,
> birthday" param>
>       <birthday-view:>
>           <input merge include-blank="&false" start-
> year="&Time.now.year - 100" end-year="&Time.now.year"/>
>       </birthday-view:>
>       </field-list>
>   </old-form>
> </extend>
>
> IT WoRKs!
>
> On Jul 18, 6:05 pm, Montgomery Kosma <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Here's a bit of advice based on my learning experiences over the last
> > few weeks.  Not sure it'll take you all the way there, but hope it's
> > at least directionally useful.
>
> > The default form for User is defined in forms.dryml.
>
> > <def tag="form" for="User">
> >   <form merge param="default">
> >     <error-messages param/>
> >     <field-list fields="name, email_address, administrator" param/>
> >     <div param="actions">
> >       <submit label="Save" param/><or-cancel param="cancel"/>
> >     </div>
> >   </form>
> > </def>
>
> > You can override or augment this form in your application.dryml.
> > Consistent with DRY, the "hobo" way is to declare only what differs
> > from the default.
>
> > Now, I'm assuming you've added birthday to the fields on the User
> > object.  If so, then your default form (above) will include birthday
> > in the field-list line.  (Otherwise, you would do something like this:
>
> > <extend tag="form" for="User">
> >   <old-form merge>
> >     <field-list: fields="name, email_address, administrator,
> > birthday">
> >   </old-form>
> > </extend>
> > )
>
> > But none of that should be necessary.  Really, all you want to do is
> > override the input being used for the birthday field.  To figure that
> > out, you have to look at the docs or the source for field-list in
> > rapid-core.dryml and see the params it defines.  As you've noted, for
> > each field, it defines field-all:, field-label, field-view, field-
> > tag.  So you should be able to do something like this:
>
> > <extend tag="form" for="User">
> >   <old-form merge>
> >     <birthday-view:>
> >       <input ...>
> >     </birthday-view:>
> >   </old-form>
> > </extend>
>
> > One suggestion, rather than first trying to get the input right,
> > experiment with something simpler like the label, e.g., <birthday-
> > label:>FOO!</birthday-label:> in the above will tell you straightaway
> > if you have the syntax correct, and let you separate out understanding
> > how to work with overriding the form elements from understanding how
> > to tweak the input being used for the date.
>
> > On Jul 18, 8:15 pm, bryan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > (continued)
>
> > > Anyway, this is what I'm currently trying (and I've tried lots of
> > > other stuff too). Please don't be too hard on me.
>
> > > <extend tag="form" for="User">
> > >   <form merge>
> > >     <field-list fields="name, email_address, administrator, birthday">
> > >         <birthday-view:>
> > >             <input:birthday merge start-year="&Time.now.year - 100"
> > > end-year="&Time.now.year"/>
> > >         </birthday-view:>
> > >     </field-list>
> > >     <div param="actions">
> > >       <submit label="Save" param/><or-cancel param="cancel"/>
> > >     </div>
> > >   </form>
> > > </extend>
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