I can't quite figure out what the right way is to use actions to handle
posting when there is an originating page, the form itself, a validator and
an action.
Scenario:
- The user has a page which displays a collection of items of some sort
(books).
+ page: books.xyz
- clicking 'new' on the
Hi Per -
If you were using the formval logicsheet and the FormValidatorAction,
you'd have something like this:
map:match pattern=newbook
map:act type=form-validator
map:parameter name=descriptor
value=context://newbook-def.xml/
map:parameter name=validate-set value=add/
On 04.Sep.2002 -- 02:57 PM, Lajos Moczar wrote:
The main gotcha here is the formval logicsheet is a bit clumsy to use,
as you have to make sure you not only display validation errors to the
user, but repopulate valid fields with the data the user already entered.
Lajos, in 2.0.4 (i.e. CVS
Lajos,
Wow. Very concise, thanks.
So, the tricks I missed were:
- nesting the validate action and the insert action, I had put them together
in an action-set instead. I actually knew better but that was dumb.
- [here's the kicker] the validator action gets called both when posting
_and_ when
