Rob Oxspring wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just thought I'd ping the list to find out if there is a recommended
> best practice for setting up a combo box style field within cforms. At
> present we have a pair of controls being used - a select list and a text
> box and have a custom validator that ensures exactly one of them is
> filled in.
>
> So the form def contains:
> <fd:field id="customerList" required="false">
> <fd:label>Customer</fd:label>
> <fd:datatype base="string"/>
> <fd:selection-list type="flow-jxpath" list-path="customers"
> value-path="value" label-path="label"/>
> </fd:field>
> <fd:field id="customer" required="false">
> <fd:datatype base="string"/>
> </fd:field>
>
> And the javascript includes:
> form.getChild('customer').addValidator(new
> JavaAdapter(WidgetValidator, new XorValidator('customer','customerList')));
>
> Ideally I'd like to define a single <fd:field> element and have cforms
> expand that into the list + text input combination, especially as I
> think this will work better if/when we replace the plain html styling
> with something richer like activewidgets.
>
Have you seen the new Suggestion List feature in the most recent
release? There's a sample at
http://cocoon.zones.apache.org/demos/release/samples/blocks/forms/do-suggest.flow
Seems like that does what you're asking for. In terms of setup it's
very much like using selection lists; instead of fd:selection-list you
use fd:suggestion-list. The AJAX list population is all handled
automatically by the framework. Very slick.
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