I have a working page inspired by the examples that has
search area search results display area
on the same page.
It works very well, except that the first time the page loads, before any search has been performed, every record from the table is displayed up to the maxRows limit. While it works, it is sloppy and not what the user expected. I also do not really want to limit the number of rows.
I have thought of these possible fixes:
1. Use a dynamic whereClause tag where "lastname LIKE "+[search text box value]+"%"
2. Suppress the body on the first pass. Can't figure out a way to do this.
3. Conditionally display the body only if something has been entered into the search text box. Can't see how to do this easily.
To do #1 I must have access to the current value of the form variables. How can you get this for ordinary html form controls and for dbforms controls?
Relevant Code
<db:errors/>
<db:dbform
multipart="false"
autoUpdate="false"
maxRows="50"
tableName="eperson"
orderBy="f_key,firstname"
>--stuff omitted
Search input box containing the fragment of lastname to search
<td>
<input type="text" name="<%=searchFieldNames_eperson.get("lastname") %>" size="17" />
</td>
-- stuff omitted
<db:body>
<tr bgcolor="#<%= (i++%2==0) ? "FFFFCC" : "FFFF99" %>">
<td>
<db:associatedRadio name="r_personkey" />
</td>
<td>
<db:label fieldName="firstname" />
</td>
<td>
<db:label fieldName="lastname" />
</td>
</tr>
</db:body>
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