That's what I have on one of my forms right now. I have a form which points
to one of my actions, and there are some links (column headings/filter
options) that the user can select so the form will get submitted to another
action.
The requirement that Roy Paul said must be met: the two actions must be using
the same form. And as Roy suggested, you might also want to take a look at
DispatchAction. That might make it easier for you to make this work, and
will also ensure that you're using the same form for both logic branches.
If you wanna try to make the javascript approach work, make sure you get the
URL correct, and that it points to the URL of the action as the browser would
see it. This means including any extension or path that you use to map to
the Struts ActionServlet. If you're using .do, you might try
"/app/fdd/shopWorkOrder/fromCreateShopWorkOrder.do"
hth,
Hubert
--- "Au-Yeung, Stella H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul and Hubert:
> If I do the following, just choose one of the paths to be the <html:form
> action="...">, you mean the form action can still be "dynamically
> overwritten" by what is actually picked in the submitForm() action? I
> thought I tried that and didn't work.
>
> > > <script language = "Javascript">
> > > function submitForm(frm)
> > > {
> > > var whichAction=frm.elements("whichAction")
> > >
> > > if (whichAction == "create")
> > > {
> > > document.theForm.action =
> > > "/app/fdd/shopWorkOrder/fromCreateShopWorkOrder";
> > > }
> > > else
> > > {
> > > document.theForm.action =
> > > "/app/fdd/shopWorkOrder/fromUpdateShopWorkOrder";
> > > }
> > >
> > > return true;
> > > }
> > > </script>
> > >
> > >
> > > <jsp:useBean id="ShopWorkOrderBean" scope="request"
> > >
> > > class="com.cat.sdl.fdd.formBean.shopWorkOrder.ShopWorkOrderForm"/>
> > > <html:form name="theForm"
> action="/app/fdd/shopWorkOrder/fromUpdateShopWorkOrder" method="post"
> onSubmit="return submitForm(document.theForm)">
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul, R. Chip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 5:23 PM
> To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: Must have action="....." in <html:form> tag?
>
>
> You can't.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the <html:form action=""> property is what
> let's struts know which Form object to map your .jsp to. I'm don't think
> this will work for you unless all the possible urls you'd submit to share
> the same Form.
>
> What you may want to do instead then is look at something along the lines
> of
> DispatchAction, and pass a parameter that tells Struts which logical action
> it should forward to after hitting the for submit action (which would be a
> subclass of DispatchAction or something similar).
>
> Of course you could do as the previous poster said and change the action to
> submit to in your javascript onSubmit function:
>
>
> function onSubmit() {
> forms[0].action="/Some/New/Action.do";
> return true;
> }
>
> And then you'd put logic to decide where to actually submit to inside the
> onSubmit function.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Au-Yeung, Stella H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 4:13 PM
> To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: Must have action="....." in <html:form> tag?
>
>
> But I don't always want "/app/fdd/shopWorkOrder/fromCreateShopWorkOrder" to
> be my action all the time. I want the action for the form to be "dynamic"
> and depends on the form field "whichAction". That's why I created the
> javascript function submitForm(frm) to pick the action "dynamically". In
> other words, I have <action mapping> in my struts-config.xml file for both
> path "/app/fdd/shopWorkOrder/fromCreateShopWorkOrder" and
> "/app/fdd/shopWorkOrder/fromUpdateShopWorkOrder". But I want whichever one
> to be chosen to be "dynamically". So how I do that all within the
> <html:form> tag?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hubert Rabago [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 4:58 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: RE: Must have action="....." in <html:form> tag?
>
>
> I never said anything close to what you're asking me.
> All I said is choose one of your two possible outcomes (doesn't matter
> which
> one), take the path that you gave it in the struts-config.xml, then use
> that
> in your <html:form>.
> Let's say you have the ff entry in your struts-config:
>
> <action path="/fromCreateShopWorkOrder" ...
> name="theForm">
> <forward .../>
> </action>
>
> then in your html:form, specify that action:
>
> <html:form action="/fromCreateShopWorkOrder"
> method="post"
> onSubmit="return submitForm(document.theForm)">
> ...
> </html:form>
>
> You do have <action>'s associated with fromCreateShopWorkOrder and
> fromUpdateShopWorkOrder, right?
>
> - Hubert
>
>
> --- "Au-Yeung, Stella H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hubert:
> > Can you elaborate that.... In othe words, how do I do everything that
> > the function submitForm() does to dynamically pick an action all
> > within the <html:form> tag?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hubert Rabago [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 4:36 PM
> > To: Struts Users Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: Must have action="....." in <html:form> tag?
> >
> >
> > Specify the Action associated with "fromCreateShopWorkOrder" or
> > "fromUpdateShopWorkOrder" in the <html:form> attribute.
> >
> > --- "Au-Yeung, Stella H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi:
> > > My <html:form> tag doesn't allow me to skip an 'action' attribue. If
> > you
> > > look at my code below, I move the assignment of the 'form action' to
> > > the javascript function so which action to take is dynamically depends
> > > on the form element 'whichAction'. But the compiler insist I have to
> > > have the 'action' property right inside the <html:form> tag. But that
> > doesn't allow
> > > me to choose the action dynamically. Does anyone have any suggestion?
> > >
> > > <script language = "Javascript">
> > > function submitForm(frm)
> > > {
> > > var whichAction=frm.elements("whichAction")
> > >
> > > if (whichAction == "create")
> > > {
> > > document.theForm.action =
> > > "/app/fdd/shopWorkOrder/fromCreateShopWorkOrder;
> > > }
> > > else
> > > {
> > > document.theForm.action =
> > > "/app/fdd/shopWorkOrder/fromUpdateShopWorkOrder;
> > > }
> > >
> > > return true;
> > > }
> > > </script>
> > >
> > >
> > > <jsp:useBean id="ShopWorkOrderBean" scope="request"
> > >
> > > class="com.cat.sdl.fdd.formBean.shopWorkOrder.ShopWorkOrderForm"/>
> > > <html:form name="theForm" method="post" onSubmit="return
> > > submitForm(document.theForm)">
> > >
> > >
> > > I got the following error with the above code:
> > > Parsing of JSP File '/app/fdd/shopWorkOrder/CreateTLFPart.jsp'
> > > failed:
> > > /app/fdd/shopWorkOrder/CreateTLFPart.jsp(28): required attribute
> 'action'
> > > not specified for tag 'form'
> > > probably occurred due to an error in
> > > /app/fdd/shopWorkOrder/CreateTLFPart.jsp line 28: <html:form
> > > name="theForm" method="post" onSubmit="return
> > > submitForm(document.theForm)">
> > >
> > >
> > >
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