Check out the 'Group Service' section in the:

http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Beginner%27s+Development+Guide+Using+Practice+Application

and synchronous services in the Service Engine Guide:

http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBTECH/Service+Engine+Guide

-CJ

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:20 PM, madppiper <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hey everyone,
>
> by pressing the submit button on a form, I am trying to call several
> services one after the other. First I want to call a service that creates a
> productCategory and then use the productCategoryId and the rest of the form
> field values to call the addProductCategoryToCategory service.
>
> Now my code looks like this:
>
> I created a form as the following Forms*xml:
>
>  <form name="test" target="createCategoryI18n" type="single" >
>
>            <!-- Create Category -->
>            <field name="productCategoryId" title="">
>                <display/>
>            </field>
>
>            <field name="productCategoryTypeId" >
>            <hidden value="QUICKADD_CATEGORY" />
>        </field>
>
>                <!-- Add ParentRollup -->
>            <field name="fromDate" >
>            <date-time type="timestamp" default-value="${nowTimestamp}"/>
>        </field>
>
>             <field name="parentProductCategoryId"
> title="${uiLabelMap.FormFieldTitle_parentCategoryId}"
> tooltip="tooltip-text">
>            <drop-down allow-empty="false" current-description=""
> current="selected" no-current-selected-key="guys" >
>                <entity-options description="${categoryName}"
> key-field-name="productCategoryId"
> entity-name="ProductCategoryRollupAndChild">
>                    <entity-constraint name="parentProductCategoryId"
> operator="equals" value="bproot"/>
>                    <entity-order-by field-name="categoryName"/>
>                </entity-options>
>            </drop-down>
>        </field>
>
>            <field name="submitButton"
> title="${uiLabelMap.CommonAdd}"><submit
> button-type="button"/></field>
>    </form>
>
>
> Then I added a service as such:
>
>  <service name="createCategoryI18n" default-entity-name="ProductCategory"
> engine="entity-auto" invoke="create" auth="true">
>                            <description>Create a Category</description>
>                                    <permission-service
> service-name="exampleGenericPermission"
> main-action="CREATE"/>
>                                    <auto-attributes include="pk" mode="OUT"
> optional="false"/>
>                                <auto-attributes include="nonpk"
> mode="INOUT" optional="true"/>
>                </service>
>
>
>
> And lastly I tried to have a SECA create the needed Rollup once needed:
>
>    <eca service="createCategoryI18n" event="commit">
>       <action service="addProductCategoryToCategory " mode="sync"/>
>    </eca>
>
>
>
>
> But of course, this won't work, because then the form parameters go
> missing.
> I know that this makes sense, as the SECAs are not context related and the
> parameters not needed by a service are removed from the context... yet my
> question remains: how can I accomplish the above? is there a way to have a
> form call multiple services that are related to one another?
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