I'm loosing you (too much asked, too little information).
- you have a page -->done
- you want a form loaded into a page --> done
- you want it to be submitted to the url that is loaded from --> done (if
it's loaded through ajax, that means that you don't want to reload the main
page, so it can't be submitted with anything else)
now what ?
On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 10:34:48 PM UTC+1, Simon Carr wrote:
>
> Your right. Thanks mate. I was getting confused over cid. But anyway it
> works great for creating the form.
>
> I notice that the form also submits via AJAX. How do I make it submit
> normally so that I can have the page refreshed? I need the users list of
> subscribed Charts and some other details to be updated after submitting the
> form.
>
> Thanks
> Simon
>
> On Wednesday, 7 November 2012 21:04:35 UTC, Niphlod wrote:
>>
>> doesn't it already (provided that there is a <div id='whatever'></div> in
>> the page) ?
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 9:36:27 PM UTC+1, Simon Carr wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank you, but how do I implement this in my view so that it loads the
>>> form into a div when the link is clicked?
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, 7 November 2012 20:00:52 UTC, Niphlod wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Wait a sec. callback and target are meant to load a fragment via ajax,
>>>> but that doesn't "fire" all the logic needed to intercept FORMs etc.
>>>> _callback and _target are meant roughly as an "onclick" under steroids.
>>>> (under the hood it translates to an onclick="ajax(url, target)")
>>>>
>>>> What you're trying to achieve is probably offered by the LOAD helper,
>>>> that can be exploited in an A() using _href and cid
>>>>
>>>> A('Add to My Charts',_href=URL('subscribe_form',vars={'chartname':
>>>> 'whatever'}), cid='whatever')
>>>>
>>>> That will load the component and trap all links and form submissions,
>>>> because it translates to an onclick="web2py_component(url, target)"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 8:39:50 PM UTC+1, Simon Carr wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The URL with the form in
>>>>> is web2py_xlchart_dashboard/charts/user_charts so without an action it
>>>>> will
>>>>> submit to *user_charts*, but I need it to submit to* subscribe_form
>>>>> *which
>>>>> is the function that was called by AJAX to generate the Form.
>>>>>
>>>>> or am I not understanding something?
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, 7 November 2012 19:26:46 UTC, Derek wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why would you need to create an action for the form? Are you not
>>>>>> using self submit?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 12:22:03 PM UTC-7, Simon Carr wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have this piece of code that calls a function in my controller
>>>>>>> when clicked.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> {{=A('Add to My Charts',callback=URL('subscribe_form',vars={
>>>>>>> 'chartname':chart.chartName}),target=str(chart.chartName).replace(
>>>>>>> '.','_'))}}
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The subscribe_form function looks like this
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> def subscribe_form():
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> form =
>>>>>>> SQLFORM(db.user_chart,fields=['title','description'],hidden=dict(chartname=request.vars['chartname']))
>>>>>>> if form.process().accepted:
>>>>>>> response.flash = 'form accepted'
>>>>>>> elif form.errors:
>>>>>>> response.flash = 'form has errors'
>>>>>>> else:
>>>>>>> response.flash = 'please fill out the form'
>>>>>>> return form
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Form is created by AJAX, but it's action is blank.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do I have to specify the action myself if I am build a Form via AJAX?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Simon
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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