I'm too new at this to say concisely. We really need to work on a thorough intro and faq for bpm4struts...
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 23:50 +0100, Martin West wrote: > and the solution was ? > > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 14:31 -0700, Tim Dysinger wrote: > > Never mind. I figured it out through trial and error. > > > > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 12:44 -0700, Tim Dysinger wrote: > > > How do I even set up a form for updating an object? > > > > > > If I model an event with event parameters going into a FrontEndView, it > > > displays the data [read-only] at the top of the page. > > > > > > If I model an event with event parameters going from the FrontEndView to > > > a system state, it displays _another_ _empty_ form with exactly the same > > > parameters. [I don't want to re-type _all_ the attributes for an object > > > if I am just changing one attribute.] > > > > > > The problem is that I can't see how to populate the update form with the > > > values from the object _before_ the page is displayed. The delegated > > > controller method only gives me access to one form. > > > > > > -Tim > > > > > > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:55 +0200, Wouter Zoons wrote: > > > > hello Tim, > > > > > > > > Tim Dysinger wrote: > > > > > I remodeling my pages a bit since the tablelink change [in cvs branch > > > > > HEAD], I have been reviewing my activity diagrams. The "table" > > > > > functionality of bpm4struts is working and I can show a collection of > > > > > objects in a table on a page with no problems. I can have one link on > > > > > each row to skip off to the object create/read/update/delete page. > > > > > That > > > > > works great. > > > > > > > > > > Is there an easy way to map an object to/from a form for my CRUD page? > > > > > I currently have to define the event parameters going into the > > > > > FrontEndView state that mirror[duplicate] the session object's > > > > > attributes and then map them to/from a session object manually. If I > > > > > just give the session object as event parameters to the FrontEndView, > > > > > bpm4struts displays the toString() on the resulting page [which isn't > > > > > helpful to me.] > > > > > > > > > > > > > currently, no .. this is still under development, I hope to have it > > > > available as an experimental feature in the RC-2 release, right before > > > > going final > > > > > > > > for now you will explicitly need to model everything > > > > > > > > > > > > > What I'm looking for is some sort of tag where I can hint to the bean > > > > > properties I want to have on the form that directly map to an event > > > > > parameter object's properties. [Sort of like I can hint with > > > > > @andromda.struts.view.table.columns tag for a collection in a table.] > > > > > > > > > > > > > you will be able to tag an <<Entity>> using the <<Manageable>> > > > > stereotype, this will make the Hibernate, Spring and Bpm4struts > > > > cartridge generate all CRUD operations for you, web pages and > > > > everything, 100% generated > > > > > > > > (I'm even including support for criteria searches and the pageable > > > > lists > > > > returned by such a search will be using the 'paging' functionality of > > > > the underlying DB, not like the common displaytag implementation is > > > > handling it (which does not scale too well) > > > > > > > > -- Wouter > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > > > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > > > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Andromda-user mailing list > > > Andromda-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-user > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > Andromda-user mailing list > > Andromda-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-user > -- > regards Martin West > http://thecla.homeftp.net > aim:amartinwest > msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Andromda-user mailing list Andromda-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-user
