Steve, Thanks so much for your reply, it gave me some more leads to follow. I have been playing with this for the last 2 days...I have tried to change my webapp to be similar to yours. I made my form have 2 string arrays, but when I try to iterate over my form as you have done in the example you gave, I either had to iterate over one string array or the other, and when I tried to specify the property in the multibox tag, it couldn't find the getter...I am assuming that, in step with the example you gave, Struts is trying to do a advancedQueryForm.getFindAssets().getSelectedAssets() for the multibox, when I think you are saying it should be doing an advancedQueryForm.getSelectedAssets(). I am still plodding along, but haven't made much progress. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks, Becky ----Original Message Follows---- From: Steve A Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Multibox confusion after reading Struts mail-archive Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 15:41:52 -0600 (MDT) On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Becky Moyer wrote: > Hi all... > I've read all I can find in the archives about the html:multibox tag, and > I have gotten farther, but I still would like to ask for some help. > > In my jsp, I have the following: > > <logic:iterate id="item1" name="entryData"> > <html:multibox name="item1" property="subscriptionStatus" value="true"/> > </logic:iterate> > > Where entryData is an ArrayList of class EntryInfo, that has a > getSubscriptionStatus() which returns a boolean. This displays properly, > and i see the appropriate boxes checked. > > > The associated Form bean has a boolean[] subscriptionStatus field with the > associated getter and setter methods. When I try to evaluate the form in my > ActionClass, the result of form.getSubscriptionStatus() is null. > > I have also implemented the reset() method in my form where I iterate > through the subscriptionStatus array in the Form and set all values to null. > > My questions are... > > 1) I thought the "property" Attribute in the multibox tag refered to > the property in the form that would be submitted. I may very well > be mistaken, but it seems from my experiments, the property > attrubute specifies which value will be displayed. How does this > work? If it represents which value will be displayed, how do you get > the information into your form? > > 2) As in the struts-exercise-taglib webapp, it appears that when you > use a multibox, you use an array of foo as the parameter that stores > the result in the form. Is this right? My confusion about this > seems to be one of my possible downfalls with getting information > into my form. > > Thanks so much for reading my rambles, and any thoughts or clarifications > would be excitedly welcomed. > > -Becky- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Becky. I flailed around with multibox myself before I found something that worked. In the example below, I implemented two String[] arrays in the ActionForm, "findAssets" and "selectedAssets". findAssets maintains all of the possible values and selectedAssets maintains the currently selected values. Iterate over all the possible values to print the checkbox name and use the property setting of the selected values to set the checkboxes. <logic:iterate name="advancedQueryForm" property="findAssets" id="element"> <html:multibox property="selectedAssets"> <bean:write name="element" /> </html:multibox> <bean:write name="element" /> <br /> </logic:iterate> Hope this helps. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
