Thanks this was perfect. I guess I now don't understand the difference escaping with the '$' or the '~'.
It works and I have bookmarked the reference you gave. Ted --- On Sun, 3/22/09, Q <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Q <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: binding 'displayString' to combined columns... > To: "Theodore Petrosky" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 7:01 PM > > On 22/03/2009, at 7:21 PM, Theodore Petrosky wrote: > > > > > I don't get this... I want to show the combined > attributes from my entity in the displayString. What I want > is: > > > > displayString = "$theUser.firstName" + " " + > "$theUser.lastName" > > > > but of course this doesn't work. I feel i am missing > something obvious but it isn't coming forth. > > > > My entity has: > > > > firstName > > lastName > > > > and I want to keep it normalized like this. > > > > <wo:WOPopUpButton list = "$repList" displayString = > "$theUser.firstName" > > item = > "$theUser" selection = "$theUser" /> > > You can use an ognl expression like "~theUser.firstName + ' > ' + theUser.lastName" or since the chances of you wanting to > do this more than once is quite high, you could add a > fulName() method to your eo that returns the desired value > and bind directly to 'theUser.fullName' instead. > > > --Seeya...Q > > Quinton Dolan - [email protected] > Gold Coast, QLD, Australia (GMT+10) > Ph: +61 419 729 806 > > > > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
