Here's a bit of advice based on my learning experiences over the last
few weeks. Not sure it'll take you all the way there, but hope it's
at least directionally useful.
The default form for User is defined in forms.dryml.
<def tag="form" for="User">
<form merge param="default">
<error-messages param/>
<field-list fields="name, email_address, administrator" param/>
<div param="actions">
<submit label="Save" param/><or-cancel param="cancel"/>
</div>
</form>
</def>
You can override or augment this form in your application.dryml.
Consistent with DRY, the "hobo" way is to declare only what differs
from the default.
Now, I'm assuming you've added birthday to the fields on the User
object. If so, then your default form (above) will include birthday
in the field-list line. (Otherwise, you would do something like this:
<extend tag="form" for="User">
<old-form merge>
<field-list: fields="name, email_address, administrator,
birthday">
</old-form>
</extend>
)
But none of that should be necessary. Really, all you want to do is
override the input being used for the birthday field. To figure that
out, you have to look at the docs or the source for field-list in
rapid-core.dryml and see the params it defines. As you've noted, for
each field, it defines field-all:, field-label, field-view, field-
tag. So you should be able to do something like this:
<extend tag="form" for="User">
<old-form merge>
<birthday-view:>
<input ...>
</birthday-view:>
</old-form>
</extend>
One suggestion, rather than first trying to get the input right,
experiment with something simpler like the label, e.g., <birthday-
label:>FOO!</birthday-label:> in the above will tell you straightaway
if you have the syntax correct, and let you separate out understanding
how to work with overriding the form elements from understanding how
to tweak the input being used for the date.
On Jul 18, 8:15 pm, bryan <[email protected]> wrote:
> (continued)
>
> Anyway, this is what I'm currently trying (and I've tried lots of
> other stuff too). Please don't be too hard on me.
>
> <extend tag="form" for="User">
> <form merge>
> <field-list fields="name, email_address, administrator, birthday">
> <birthday-view:>
> <input:birthday merge start-year="&Time.now.year - 100"
> end-year="&Time.now.year"/>
> </birthday-view:>
> </field-list>
> <div param="actions">
> <submit label="Save" param/><or-cancel param="cancel"/>
> </div>
> </form>
> </extend>
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