I do this using 3 actions loadAction - called first time the page is loaded, populates the form with values from the db, the form has "session" scope.
editAction - called by a click on the add or delete button, adds or removes a row from the form. Add and delete buttons should post to this action so that any field changes will be picked up. saveAction - commits the form to the db, called by a save button. This means that clicking on add and save requires a page refresh but it means struts will read input fields into your form automatically. Im sure you could go the ajax way and add / delete from your ActionForm without re-loading the page. -----Original Message----- From: Adam Gordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 July 2006 21:02 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Struts form design question Hi folks. The more I think of this problem, the more I think that we will be unable to use only Struts for this particular situation. We have a table which we populate with a user's choice of custom registration fields (name, email, phone, company, etc...). Each row in this table is essentially a button to remove the row, a text field to enter the name of the field, and a checkbox to indicate whether or not that particular field is required when a user registers. At the bottom of the table is an "Add Field" button which will insert a new row in the table. Right now, the "Add Field" and "Remove Row" buttons are implemented in JavaScript because we don't want to edit the database every time the user makes a change. Additionally, we want the ability to "reset" the table back to what the user had originally (the user's defaults can change over time, and since they come from the database, this is why we don't want "live" editing). Initially creating the table isn't the problem, we can use DynaForms to correctly create the table, the problem is how/can we read the values (the rows of textfield/checkbox items) back when the user is finished editing using Struts? I don't think we can use DynaForms because the user can change what was originally rendered...or am I misunderstanding DynaForms? Thanks. -Adam --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
