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From: "Scott Eade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: intake question
> From: "Warner Onstine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Ok,
> > I have been all through the intake docs and through the scarab stuff and
> > have not found a way to do this just in intake so please correct me if I
am
> > wrong. I have also tried doing this through the OMTool with no success.
> >
> > I want to be able to pass an id to a form and then be able to
pre-populate
> > the form with the available information. Now, scarab uses a special tool
> > that it puts into the context with which you can retrieve instances of
the
> > Peers needed via their id or name in some cases.
> >
> > Is there a way to just do this via Intake or the OMTool that I am
missing?
> >
> > -warner
>
> The sample app that comes with the tdk provides a fine example
> of retrieval of data and population of a form. It retrieves the
> data using a screen class, where as I assume Scarab uses a pull
> tool of its own devising. Pull tools are incredibly easy to write
> once you realize they are simply a way of making a bunch of
> methods for data retrieval always available (via the tool name
> you define in TR.props).
>
> I gather that OMTool is not working and may even be removed.
>
> The sample app doesn't use intake, which does server side
> validation. This is a little tricky to use at the moment, but with a bit
> of effort you can make it work. Check the mailing list, a number
> of intake issues have been covered in the last couple of weeks.
> Be careful with the docs - the intake ones contain a number of
> inaccuracies, many of which can be worked out by looking at
> the intake.dtd included with the tdk.
Well, I was hoping Intake did do that, otherwise I will write my own
probably similar to Scarab to allow me to easily pull objects.
> In short, you don't need intake or OMTool to do what you are
> after and the example application that is included with the tdk
> clearly shows you how to do it.
Again, hoping that Intake could do it for me =).
> Scott
>
>
>
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