have you thought of using the lookup type of form.
this also allows the data created to be inserted into a field.
Leon Torres sent the following on 7/13/2006 1:57 PM:
Hi all,
I'd like to get to the bottom of this issue: Suppose you have a
re-usable form such as editcontactmech that is called from various
screens. To get back to the screen the user came from, there is a [Go
Back] and [Save] link generated from a DONE_PAGE parameter that is
passed to editcontactmech.
However, suppose instead of having [Go Back] and [Save], the requirement
is that the user is taken back to the originating screen upon submitting
the form. Currently, the only way I was able to implement this was to
have a special java event method called donePageRequestHelper as follows,
<!-- call this request when you have a donePage that you want to go
to after finishing a service -->
<request-map uri="donePageRequestHelper">
<security https="true" auth="true"/>
<event type="java" path="path.to.java"
invoke="donePageRequestHelper"/>
<response name="viewContact" type="request-redirect"
value="viewContact"/>
<response name="viewAccount" type="request-redirect"
value="viewAccount"/>
<response name="viewLead" type="request-redirect"
value="viewLead"/>
...
</request-map>
public static String donePageRequestHelper(HttpServletRequest
request, HttpServletResponse response) {
String donePage = (String) request.getParameter("donePage");
if (donePage == null) {
donePage = "error";
}
return donePage;
}
The problem with this is that the request-redirect will end up adding
all the form parameters to the URL. I see no way to resolve this with
the current RequestHandler, except maybe with a flag to prevent the form
POST data from being added to the GET parameter data. That is, it is
only desired to pass along GET parameters to the redirect URL from the
original request.
Any ideas?
- Leon
