I am a little confused. I am not sure where you are getting your default values from. Are they set as a result of client preferences or are they standard for everyone.
If they are standard for all, it might be best to define the default values for your ActionForm within the constructor of the ActionForm. That way upon first entry to the page you have the default values set in the ActionForm. After that any form values submitted will be set using the get/set of the ActionForm and replace the defaults. If, on the other hand, the default values are set via a dynamic process. You might consider writting two Actions that use the same ActionForm to accomplish this. Or you could do what I do and use the LookupDispatchAction/DispatchAction's uspecified method upon entry and another method of your choosing when submitting the updated form values. Brandon Goodin -----Original Message----- From: Alawadhi, Mona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 11:52 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: first time action Hello Brandon, I call "SetPageDefaults" the first time my page loads. In my JSP, there are links for the Action : <href="ActionClass.do?parameter="A"> so, the action gets called again and again. Also, I have different radio buttons along the page to be selected (the defaults are set for those buttons when the page loads first). The problem is that when I click on that link, it re-loads the page, and sets the defaults again. It does not take the new values for the radio buttons(I have three parms in my page). Therefore, I thought there would be some kind of indication whether the page is loading first, in order to include the call for "setPageDefaults" in an if statement and keep my selections when I call the Action again. My Page looks something like this: ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ Select display: o By Contact o By Taxpayer Type: o All o Billing o Business o Contact o Delivery o Mailing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z results (when letter A is chosen): Anderson, K. Arizona, B. ... etc ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ The user can select two values from the two radio buttons, and a letter, which is the param passed in <href>. How would I go about passing those three values to the Action class? Mona -----Original Message----- From: Brandon Goodin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 1:42 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: first time action It would be good to provide a more clear use case. Usually you don't have any methods in your ActionForm than the usual getter/setters, validate and reset. So, I'm not sure what you are asking. Please, be more specific about what you are trying to accomplish. Brandon Goodin -----Original Message----- From: Alawadhi, Mona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 11:19 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: first time action Hello Everyone, I have some methods in my FormBean that I would want to call only the first time I go through the Action class (load the page). Any ideas? Mona **************************************************************************** * The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. 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