Dynamic generation of forms out of a config table in a database

2004-02-11 Thread Stockhammer Thomas
Hi all, In my application i want to generate dynamic forms, that means the number of controls placed on the forms depends on the entries in a config-tabel of a database. That means I can add a textbox to a database by adding a record to the config-table. Additionally i can show different forms to

Re: Dynamic generation of forms out of a config table in a database

2004-02-11 Thread Oliver Thiel
Hi Tom I use a quite similar approach, beside that I don`t use DynaActionForms, cause I read about some drawbacks (e.g. performence). Never the less what I did is I added a validation table (id/regexp). In my config-table I connect every form item to a regular expression. I then use IBatis to

Re: Dynamic generation of forms out of a config table in a database

2004-02-11 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi Tom, I saw a long thread last year on this mailing list discussing this subject. I can't remember the details but I do remember the person declared their success at the end. If you have a good search in the mail list archives on DynaActionForms and similar words, you are bound to find it.