Try this. The input point to your tile.
<!-- Process new Category -->
<action path="/CreateCategory"
type="manegen.forum.CreateCategoryAction"
name="createForm"
scope="session"
input="input">
<forward name="input" path=".view.newForm" />
<forward name="success" path="/Home.do"/>
</action>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fredrik Boström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@struts.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Losing form values after validating
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 19:46:23 +0200
>
> Just for completeness, I'll post some more relevant information
> about the application.
>
>
> newForm.jsp (partly)
> --------------------
> <logic:equal parameter="action" value="thread">
> <!-- Create new thread -->
> <h1>New Thread</h1>
>
> <html:form action="/CreateThread">
> <html-el:hidden property="author" value="${user.nickname}"/>
> <html-el:hidden property="categoryId" value="${param.category}"/>
> Topic: <html:text property="topic" value="" size="20"
> maxlength="40" /><br/>
> Message: <html:textarea property="message" value="" cols="60"
> rows="10" /><br/>
> <html:submit value="Create" />
> </html:form>
> </logic:equal>
>
>
> struts-config.xml (partly)
> -------------------------
> <!-- Multi purpose form for creating stuff -->
> <form-bean name="createForm"
>
> type="org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorActionForm">
> <form-property name="author"
> type="java.lang.String" />
> <form-property name="categoryId"
> type="java.lang.Integer" />
> <form-property name="threadId"
> type="java.lang.Integer" />
> <form-property name="topic"
> type="java.lang.String" />
> <form-property name="message"
> type="java.lang.String" />
> <form-property name="replyto"
> type="java.lang.Integer" />
> <form-property name="categoryName"
> type="java.lang.String" />
> <form-property name="categoryDescription"
> type="java.lang.String" />
> </form-bean>
> </form-beans>
>
> <!-- Display new user|category|thread|message form -->
> <action path="/NewForm"
> forward=".view.newForm" />
>
> <!-- Process new Category -->
> <action path="/CreateCategory"
> type="manegen.forum.CreateCategoryAction"
> name="createForm"
> scope="session"
> input="input">
> <forward name="input" path="/NewForm.do?action=category" />
> <forward name="success" path="/Home.do"/>
> </action>
>
> tiles-defs.xml (partly)
> -----------------------
> <tiles-definitions>
>
> <!-- main layout -->
> <definition name=".layout.main" path="/layout/layout.jsp">
> <put name="title" value="Manegen Forum"/>
> <put name="body" value=""/>
> </definition>
>
> <!-- views = extensions to the main layout -->
> <definition name=".view.newForm" extends=".layout.main">
> <put name="body" value="/newForm.jsp" />
> </definition>
>
> </tiles-definitions>
>
>
>
> This is really bothering me, so any ideas would help.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Fredrik
>
>
>
>
> Fredrik Boström wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I'm working on a small message-forum project and have stumbled
> > upon many problems along the way, most of which I've been able to
> > more or less solve. To the most recent problem, though, I haven't
> > found any solution despite lots of googling.
> >
> > I'm using a DynaValidatorActionForm to validate input from a form
> > (actually several forms). The form is one of three forms in the
> > same jsp-page. The form to be used is determined by a logic-tag
> > that looks for an action-parameter and ckecks its value. If the
> > value is "thread" the thread-form is displayed. So the URI to
> > display the thread-form would be /NewForm.do?action=thread.
> >
> > I also have to pass another parameter to the thread-form, namely
> > to which category the thread belongs. This parameter's value is
> > inserted into a hidden field in the form. So, the final URI would
> > be /NewForm.do?action=thread&category=1.
> >
> > Other fields in the form are
> > - a hidden username field, value from user session bean
> > - thread topic (input type="text")
> > - message (input type="textarea")
> >
> > So, the populated form (but not yet filled in by the user) would
> > look like this:
> >
> > <form name="createForm" method="post" action="/forum_dev/CreateThread.do">
> > <input type="hidden" name="author" value="Joe"> <-- from bean
> > <input type="hidden" name="categoryId" value="1"> <-- from request
> > parameter
> > Topic: <input type="text" name="topic" maxlength="40" size="20"
> > value=""><br/>
> > Message: <textarea name="message" cols="60" rows="10"></textarea><br/>
> > <input type="submit" value="Create">
> > </form>
> >
> > When submitting the form, I want it to be validated and if the
> > validation fails, the user is returned to the same page with
> > error-messages displayed. This is currently done by using the
> > following action (which is the action the form submits to):
> >
> > <action path="/CreateThread"
> > type="manegen.forum.CreateThreadAction"
> > name="createForm"
> > scope="request"
> > input="input">
> > <forward name="input" path="/NewForm.do?action=thread" />
> > <forward name="success" path="/ShowMessages.do" />
> > <forward name="failure" path="/ShowThreads.do" />
> > </action>
> >
> > Validation works fine (when it's failing :), the validator
> > returns to the right page with the right form visible, messages
> > display as they should and everythings seems to be a-ok.
> >
> > But, the problem is that when the validation fails, all form
> > values (except "author" which comes from the session bean) are
> > lost. This is surely due to the fact that control passes through
> > another action before getting back to the form page. The values
> > somehow get lost on the way.
> >
> > Is there any way to keep the form data through this process? I've
> > tried putting scope="session" in the /CreateThread action but
> > with no success. Another alternative would be to maintain a
> > session bean which contains fields for the current category,
> > thread etc, but that bean would demand lots of updating all the
> > time. Any simple solution to this problem?
> >
> > Grateful for any suggestions.
> >
> > Regards, Fredrik
> >
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