Unfortunately,
form.getWidget("contacts.6.votes")
returns null for me, instead of the value it contains.
Brian
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 15:58, Jim Horner wrote:
> > Appreciate the link, but I've been through that wiki many times and
> > haven't been able to solve my problem.
>
> sorry. sometimes I have problems finding it... a smart person would bookmark
> it... nope not me.
>
> > In summary, I need to be able to get a submitted value from the form and
> > increment it by one, before the xml of the data is created.
>
> Perhaps I am misunderstanding what your flowscript, form and binding looks
> like. Based on what I understand I think you should be able to use the
> on-action element as in the previous email to get the submitted value and
> increment it accordingly in the form definition file or I suppose you could
> use a javascript element binding to increment the value based on some other
> widget's value in the binding file. The last suggestion is to do it inside
> your flowscript method before the form.save(...). All of the suggestions
> should do the incrementation before the actual binding. Someone else might
> have better ideas... sorry.
>
> function form2xml(form) {
>
> // bind the document data to the form
> form.load(document);
>
> // shows the form to the user until is validated successfully
> form.showForm(displayURI);
> if (form.submitId == "cancel") {
>
> // cancel out
> cocoon.sendPage(cancelURI);
> }
> else {
>
> // get and modify the submitted widget value
> var mywidget = form.getWidget("contact.0.votes");
> mywidget.value = mywidget.value + 1;
>
> // bind the form's data back to the document
> form.save(document);
>
> }
>
> }
>
> <wb:javascript id="foo" path="foo">
> <wb:load-form>
> var appValue = jxpathPointer.getValue();
> widget.setValue(appValue);
> </wb:load-form>
> <wb:save-form>
> var formValue = widget.getValue();
> var someOtherWidget = wigdet.parent.getWidget("contacts.0.vote");
> if (someOtherWidget.value == 'true' // or whatever criteria) {
> // vote
> formValue = formValue + 1;
> }
> jxpathPointer.setValue(formValue);
> </wb:save-form>
> </wb:javascript>
>
>
> > > <wd:submit id="vote" action-command="vote">
> > > <wd:label>Vote</wd:label>
> > > <wd:on-action>
> > >
> > > var contact0Widget = event.source.parent.getWidget("contacts.0.vote");
> > > var contact0Votes = contact0Widget.value;
> > > // or maybe contact0Widget.value = contact0Widget.value + 1;
> > > // do something with votes... etc...
> > >
> > > </wd:on-action>
> > > </wd:submit>
>
>
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