there you go, good one. I am familiar with that syntax, and KB articles on
extending qForms is a good idea. I will have to play around with that some
more. Amazing thing is PLUM has been so good, I have not viewed the source
of the page much.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Fleitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [plum] Filtered Select - brainfart morning
Good idea, Dan.
I haven't tested everything. I know that they made some changes to the
validation library to better handle certain data types, but I can't
remember which ones (datetime I think?). Anyway, I am pretty sure that
most of it is intact.
I think if you study what they do in a form a little, you can handle it.
I just had a situation where I had to place a question mark image within a
DisplayAddForm label attribute, so that when a user clicked on the image,
it would launch a popup window displaying help. (BTW, creating a helpTopic
Category in the CMS allows you to create popup help for your app that you
can let selected users modify. This is pretty slick.)
Here is what the tag call looks like:
<cf_DisplayRadioGroup column="Team"
label="Team: <a href=""JavaScript: newWindow =
openWin('#Application.absoluteURLRoot#/chit/help.cfm?helptopic=ChitTeamHelp',
'helpWin', 'width=300,height=200,left=200, top=100,
toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menuBar=0,scrollBars=0,resizable=0'
); newWindow.focus();""><img
src=""#Request.layoutImages#/questionmark.gif"" align=""texttop""
border=""0"" alt=""Team Help""></a>"
required="Yes"
default="AES"
separator=" "
type="varchar(5)">
Well the problem with this approach was that the validation for the fields
on the form use the label as the field name, so I was getting some pretty
interesting looking validation messages, that included the js code for the
popup. What I discovered by looking at the generated source, was that
they place all of the validation messages in an array. So what I did was
use the standard qForms syntax after the closing </cf_DisplayAddForm> tag
to overwrite the label values in the array (see below).
<!--- Override default field labels descriptions to omit references to
the question mark popups --->
<script type="text/javascript">
objFormChit["Title"].description = "Chit Title:";
objFormChit["Team"].description = "Team:";
objFormChit["Activity"].description = "Preparing Activity:";
objFormChit["Originator"].description = "Originator:";
objFormChit["Phone"].description = "Phone Number:";
objFormChit["Email"].description = "E-Mail:";
objFormChit["Issue"].description = "Problem:";
objFormChit["ProposedSolution"].description = "Proposed Solution:";
objFormChit["Comments"].description = "Comments:";
</script>
I guess we should start writing up some KB articles on some of these.
HTH,
Jeff
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Jeff Fleitz
Tekquest, Ltd
Integrated Digital Solutions
http://www.tekquest.com
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Dan O'Keefe wrote:
Jeff,
Since PLUM uses qForms, I was wondering if there is an elegant way for us
to manually invoke qForms functionality on a PLUM form. Now I think I
read some where in the docs or an email that PLUM uses a modified form of
qForms or a subset of qForms, not sure of the exact terminology used, but
I wonder if that means functionality was chopped out of the lib. If I get
time tonight I do a winDiff of the lib. I came across an area recently
myself where I was wondering the same thing.
Dan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Fleitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [plum] Filtered Select - brainfart morning
Hi Tim,
It seems to me that you would want to normalize your database, so I
would go with separate tables. Using Plum shouldn't influence db design
issues, IMO.
On the question of the forms, are you planning on putting 2 select menus
on one form, or on two separate forms (ManufacturerAddForm,
ModelAddform) for instance?
cf_FilteredSelect doesn't support chaining like that at this time,
although I asked for it. Maybe Adam and David will consider it for v
1.1. If you are going for the former option, you will have to do
something like use Nate Weiss' CF_TwoSelectsRelated tag, bracketed
between a <cf_DisplayExtraFormContent> tag pair. I did this on a
project last year, and had to use custom queries to drive it. qForms
supports populating multiple selects, also, so that is another option.
But no native way in Plum to popluate one select dymanically from
another at this point.
HTH,
Jeff
Tim Blankenship wrote:
Alright I know I should be ashamed, well I am, I need a little help.
What I want to do is have a form that lists some info on server
hardware that has a filtered select list on it.Basically I want to
choose a manufacturer (HP, IBM, Dell...) and when I choose the
manufacturer the Models are populated for the specific Manufacturer.
Example I choose HP in a select menu the next select menu is populated
with Proliant 123, Proliant 234, Proliant 345. So inturn what is the
best method for the DB design, a single table like
ID, man_ID, manufacturer, mod_id, model or should I split them
Manufacturer table
man_id, manufacturer
Model table
mod_id, model, man_id
I know this is somewhat simple but I am just having a brainfart this
morning.
For testing and client approval I am making it in Access but
eventually I will recreate this in Oracle.
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