Why not have different names for each field, like "African countries", "Arab
countries", etc.? That might solve these other problems. Templates aren't
supposed to have more than one of each field anyway, from what I know.
-Yaron
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Davide Piga <davide.p...@undp.org> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> This is more a question about the software than a request for assistance: I
> am using repeated fields in my forms, like in the following example:
>
> {|
> | Africa
> | {{{field|country|input
> type=checkboxes|values=Angola,Benin,Botswana,Burkina
> Faso,Burundi,Cameroon,Central African Republic,Cape Verde,Chad,Comoros,Congo
> (Democratic Republic of),Congo (Republic of),Côte d'Ivoire,Equatorial
> Guinea,Ethiopia,Eritrea,Gabon,Gambia,Ghana,Guinea,Guinea
> Bissau,Kenya,Lesotho,Liberia,Madagascar,Malawi,Mali,Mauritania,Mauritius,Mozambique,Namibia,Niger,Nigeria,Rwanda,Sao
> Tome and Principe,Senegal,Seychelles,Sierra Leone,South
> Africa,Swaziland,Tanzania,Togo,Uganda,Zambia,Zimbabwe}}}
> |-
> | Arab States
> | {{{field|country|input type=checkboxes|values=Algeria,Bahrain,Brunei
> Darussalam,Djibouti,Egypt,Iraq,Jordan,Kuwait,Lebanon,Libya,Morocco,Oman,Palestine,Qatar,Saudi
> Arabia,Somalia,Sudan,Syria,Tunisia,United Arab Emirates,Yemen}}}
> |-
> | Asia and the Pacific
> | {{{field|country|input
> type=checkboxes|values=Afghanistan,Australia,Bangladesh,Bhutan,Cambodia,China,Fiji,India,Indonesia,Iran,Japan,Kiribati,Korea
> (Democratic People's Republic of),Korea (Republic of),Lao
> PDR,Malaysia,Maldives,Marshall Islands,Micronesia (Federated States
> of),Mongolia,Myanmar,Nauru,Nepal,New Zealand,Pakistan,Palau,Papua New
> Guinea,Philippines,Samoa,Singapore,Solomon Islands,Sri
> Lanka,Thailand,Timor-Leste,Tonga,Tuvalu,Vanuatu,Viet Nam}}}
> |-
> | Europe and the CIS
> | {{{field|country|input
> type=checkboxes|values=Albania,Andorra,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Belarus,Belgium,Bosnia
> and Herzegovina,Bulgaria,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech
> Republic,Denmark,Estonia,Finland,Georgia,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Iceland,Italy,Kazakhstan,Kosovo,Kyrgyzstan,Latvia,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,FYR
> Macedonia,Malta,Moldova,Monaco,Montenegro,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Russian
> Federation,San Marino,Serbia,Slovakia,Slovenia,St
> Helena,Switzerland,Tajikistan,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Ukraine,United Kingdom of
> Great Britain and Northern Ireland,Uzbekistan}}}
> |-
> | Latin America and the Caribbean
> | {{{field|country|input type=checkboxes|values=Antigua and
> Barbuda,Argentina,Bahamas,Barbados,Belize,Bolivia,Brazil,Chile,Colombia,Costa
> Rica,Cuba,Dominica,Dominican Republic,Ecuador,El
> Salvador,Grenada,Guatemala,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,Jamaica,Mexico,Nicaragua,Panama,Paraguay,Peru,Saint
> Kitts and Nevis,Saint Lucia,Saint Vincent and the
> Grenadines,Suriname,Trinidad and Tobago,Uruguay,Venezuela}}}
> |}
>
> So the same field is used several times in the same form.
>
> This works fine except for 2 details:
>
> 1 - in the source code, I get the relative template's parameter repeated as
> many times as the number of identical fields repeated in form, like:
>
> {{Geographic properties:
> | country =Mozambique, Romania, Nicaragua
> | country =Mozambique, Romania, Nicaragua
> | country =Mozambique, Romania, Nicaragua
> | country =Mozambique, Romania, Nicaragua
> | country =Mozambique, Romania, Nicaragua
> }}
>
> 2 - when I save the page, but when I click again on the "edit with form"
> tab, sometimes, values previously assigned in field "country" get deleted,
> and I have to reassign them before saving the page.
>
> The question is mainly about point 2 (although workarounds for point 1 are
> welcome): does that happen because fields are not supposed to be used like
> that or rather we can call it a bug?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Davide
>
>
>
> >
>
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