It figures I was making it too complicated. Thanks for your help
Jon -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurie Harper Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 4:14 PM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: Re: select tag and value issue If you hardcode value="42", the option with value '42' will always be selected. If you hardcode value="license", as you have below, the option with value 'license' will always be selected -- and you don't have an option with that value, so nothing is selected. You need to *remove* the value=... attribute from the html:select tag. Struts will then use the value of the property, as you want; specifying the value attribute overrides it. L. Jonathan Drnek wrote: > I think I am. I changed the JSP to also display the license id as a > text field. The JSP is > > <html:form action="/updateSoftware" > > <html:hidden property="id"/> > Name <html:text property="name" /><br> > Location <html:text property="location" /><br> > Approved <html:checkbox property="approved" > value="true"/><br> > License ID: <html:text property="license" /><br> > License > <html:select property="license" value="license"> > <html:option > value="-1"> </html:option> > <html:options collection="allLicenses" > property="id" labelProperty="name" /> > </html:select><br> > Notes <html:text property="notes" /><br> > <html:submit/> > </html:form> > > The HTML that is outputted is > > <form name="SoftwareForm" method="post" > action="/SoftwareTracker2/updateSoftware.do"> > <input type="hidden" name="id" value="1"> > Name <input type="text" name="name" value="Apache Web Server"><br> > Location <input type="text" name="location" value="loc2"><br> > Approved <input type="checkbox" name="approved" value="true"><br> > > License ID: <input type="text" name="license" value="42"><br> > License > <select name="license"> > <option value="-1"> </option> > <option value="22">Apache Software License</option> > <option value="42">asd</option> > </select><br> > Notes <input type="text" name="notes" value=" "><br> > <input type="submit" value="Submit"> > </form> > > As you can see, the license id has a value of 42. There is an option > with a value of 42 that is not selected. If I hard code the 42 so I > have JSP that looks like > > <html:select property="license" value="42"> > <html:option value="-1"> </html:option> > <html:options collection="allLicenses" property="id" > labelProperty="name" /> > </html:select><br> > > I get what I expect > > <select name="license"> > <option value="-1"> </option> > <option value="22">Apache Software License</option> > <option value="42" selected="selected">asd</option> > </select><br> > > Jon > > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurie Harper > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:53 PM > To: user@struts.apache.org > Subject: Re: select tag and value issue > > Your JSP code looks OK (except obviously you want to remove the > value="22" from the html:select tag). Are you sure the value you're > setting in form.license is correct? > > L. > > Jonathan Drnek wrote: >> I'm fairly new to struts and am having a problem with the > <html:select> >> tag. I can't get the value property to work correctly. I have a list > of >> licenses that I want displayed in the drop down box. I want the > license >> that is used by the current software to be selected. >> >> If I hard code the value property to be 22 for example, the license > that >> has 22 for its key is selected. It seems like I should be able to use >> the license property in my SoftwareForm bean for the value but that > does >> not work. When I do that, nothing ends up being selected. >> >> My JSP page looks like >> >> <html:form action="/updateSoftware" > >> <html:hidden property="id"/> >> Name <html:text property="name" /><br> >> Location <html:text property="location" /><br> >> Approved <html:checkbox property="approved" value="true"/><br> >> License >> <html:select property="license" value="22"> >> <html:option value="-1"> </html:option> >> <html:options collection="allLicenses" property="id" >> labelProperty="name" /> >> </html:select><br> >> Notes <html:text property="notes" /><br> >> <html:submit/> >> </html:form> >> >> My action mapping looks like. >> >> <action name="SoftwareForm" path="/updateSoftware" >> scope="request" >> type="org.springframework.web.struts.DelegatingActionProxy" >> input="/EditSoftware.jsp"> >> <forward name="success" >> path="/loadAllSoftware.do"> >> </forward> >> <forward name="Failure" >> path="/EditSoftware.jsp"> >> </forward> >> </action> >> >> As you can see I am using spring. >> >> My SoftwareForm bean contains the String properties you would expect. > >> In the action that forwards to the above form I have the following > code >> Software s = softwareDAO.get(Long.decode(id)); >> Iterator i = licenseDAO.getAllLicenses(); >> >> SoftwareForm sForm = new SoftwareForm(); >> sForm.setApproved(Boolean.toString(s.isApproved())); >> sForm.setId(s.getId().toString()); >> sForm.setLicense(s.getLicense().getId().toString()); >> sForm.setLocation(s.getLocation()); >> sForm.setName(s.getName()); >> sForm.setNotes(s.getNotes()); >> >> request.setAttribute("SoftwareForm",sForm); >> request.setAttribute("allLicenses",i); >> >> This seems like it should be a fairly simple thing to do. What am I >> missing? >> >> Jon > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
