Yes, I guess it just makes more sense to do as you suggested.
Thank you,
Davide
On May 22, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Yaron Koren <yaro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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,Eri
> trea,Gabon,Gambia,Ghana,Guinea,Guinea Bissau,Kenya,Lesotho,Liberia,M
> adagascar,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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