Re: Back-button friendly ajax wizard navigation
use setResponsePage() to go to the next page when everything is a-ok. Wicket will instruct the browser to redirect to the new page (iirc). Martijn On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Brian Laframboise brian.laframbo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Edward. I was hoping for some means of doing this in a redirect-after-post kind of way so that the javascript response to the client actually caused the browser to request the next wizard page via a new url, creating a back-button history entry. I guess generating that URL for a non-bookmarkable page during an ajax form submission and causing the client to redirect is not doable. In my particular case, I have a wizard step with a single radio group and no default option. Here I expect many users to simply click 'Next' and I was hoping to save them the full page submission just to display the error message. Unfortunately, here the onblur approach clearly won't work and I can't think of another event handler onto which I could attach it. However, it still sounds useful for my other form elements and I'll try it out there. Thanks again for the help. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Edward Zarecor wic...@indeterminate.orgwrote: Since you are changing the DOM dynamically using Ajax, the browser -- correctly I would say -- isn't considering this a page change, so the back button should take you back to the page prior to the wizard. The browser history will be immutable from JavaScript, so that's not an option. To achieve the user experience you want, I think the best alternative is to validate your fields via Ajax onblur, but move between wizard steps using a form submit. Hope this helps. Ed. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org -- Become a Wicket expert, learn from the best: http://wicketinaction.com Apache Wicket 1.4 increases type safety for web applications Get it now: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.4.4 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
Re: Back-button friendly ajax wizard navigation
Since you are changing the DOM dynamically using Ajax, the browser -- correctly I would say -- isn't considering this a page change, so the back button should take you back to the page prior to the wizard. The browser history will be immutable from JavaScript, so that's not an option. To achieve the user experience you want, I think the best alternative is to validate your fields via Ajax onblur, but move between wizard steps using a form submit. Hope this helps. Ed. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
Re: Back-button friendly ajax wizard navigation
Thanks Edward. I was hoping for some means of doing this in a redirect-after-post kind of way so that the javascript response to the client actually caused the browser to request the next wizard page via a new url, creating a back-button history entry. I guess generating that URL for a non-bookmarkable page during an ajax form submission and causing the client to redirect is not doable. In my particular case, I have a wizard step with a single radio group and no default option. Here I expect many users to simply click 'Next' and I was hoping to save them the full page submission just to display the error message. Unfortunately, here the onblur approach clearly won't work and I can't think of another event handler onto which I could attach it. However, it still sounds useful for my other form elements and I'll try it out there. Thanks again for the help. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Edward Zarecor wic...@indeterminate.orgwrote: Since you are changing the DOM dynamically using Ajax, the browser -- correctly I would say -- isn't considering this a page change, so the back button should take you back to the page prior to the wizard. The browser history will be immutable from JavaScript, so that's not an option. To achieve the user experience you want, I think the best alternative is to validate your fields via Ajax onblur, but move between wizard steps using a form submit. Hope this helps. Ed. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
