At 11:17 AM -0500 2002/06/18, John Nicholas wrote: >OK, I didn't explain my problem very well . I have no problems with >saving the graphic uploaded or displaying it later. I'm wondering >how to handle editing this same data later. My original form lets >the user add an entry to a database. Let's pretend it's an address >book with pictures so the form lets me put in name, address and >upload a jpeg. In the database I store the name, address and path to >the graphic. Later I want to be able to edit this data. I have the >form come up prepopulated with their name and address and those >fields can be changed and updated in the database. > >I'm wondering how the file upload field should be handled. Should I >put anything in it or leave it empty? If I leave it empty I could >replace the graphic only if they upload one and leave it as the >original if they don't. That might imply to the user that there >isn't a graphic when there is plus I'd have to validate the graphic >differently. > >Do users expect the name of the original graphic to be there and if >so how to get it in there without confusing the ActionForm? I >obviously wouldn't be sending the graphic back to them and having >them upload it again through the form the way you do with text in a >text field but I don't see how to only send the name of the graphic >and only maybe get a graphic back.
You can't "pre-fill" an upload form field. No popular browsers have any support for the "value" attribute. I was checking that in response to an earlier post on struts-user today. Here's a link with more info <http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/i/inputfile.htm> Just found that w/Google, so I'm not endorsing it. If you have a form where the upload is optional, check the "fileSize" property of your formFile to see if someone gave you anything to handle or not. Joe -- -- * Joe Germuska { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } "It's pitiful, sometimes, if they've got it bad. Their eyes get glazed, they go white, their hands tremble.... As I watch them I often feel that a dope peddler is a gentleman compared with the man who sells records." --Sam Goody, 1956 tune in posse radio: <http://www.live365.com/stations/289268> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
