On Feb 23, 2012, at 5:15 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> I am trying to add a rich type for a four-digit year and provide an in-place 
> editor for it.
> 
> The problem I am having is that the editor never activates, apparently 
> because an ID is not generated.
> 
> The type definition is very simple:
> 
> class NthpYear < Integer
> 
>   COLUMN_TYPE = :integer
> 
>   HoboFields.register_type(:nthp_year, self)
> 
>   def validate
>     "Your entry for year is too long: It must have four digits" if length > 4
>     "Your entry for year is too short: It must have four digits" if length < 4
>   end
> 
>   def format
>     self
>   end
> 
>   def to_html(xmldoctype = true)
>     self
>   end
> 
> end
> 
> The editor definition is just:
> 
>     <def tag="editor" for="nthp_year"><%= in_place_editor(attributes, this) 
> %></def>
> 
> The DRYML for the form looks like this, for the two relevant variants of 
> question_type:
> 
> (the section that generates a working editor)
> 
> <div part="tc" id="tc-#{typed_id}" if="&this.question.question_type.name == 
> 'short_text' || this.question.question_type.name == 'long_text' ">
>       <b>Enter text:</b> <editor:response_data update="tc-#{typed_id}"/>
>       <br/>
> /div>
> 
> (this section generates an editor lacking an id, so it never activates)
>                               
> <div part="ny" id="ny-#{typed_id}" if="&this.question.question_type.name == 
> 'nthp_year'">
>       <b>Enter the year:</b> <editor:response_year update="ny-#{typed_id}"/>
>       <br/>
> </div>
> 
> And the generated HTML sections are:
> 
> (working editor with id)
> 
> <div class="text response_response_data editor in-place-edit 
> model::response:53:response-data update::tc-response:53 view 
> response-response-data " hobo-blank-message="(click to edit)" 
> hobo-edit-text="test edited" id="uid1" title="Click to edit">test edited</div>
> 
> (non-activating editor, lacking id)
> 
> <span class="nthp_year response_response_year editor in-place-edit 
> model::response:54:response-year update::ny-response:54 view 
> response-response-year " hobo-blank-message="(click to edit)">(click to 
> edit)</span>
> 
> Any insight into errors in my DRYML, type, or editor definitions, so I can 
> get my editor working?

Do you have a <view> tag defined for NthpYear? The in_place_editor tag uses 
that, and I'm not sure where else the <span> could be coming from.

--Matt Jones

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