For the controller/logic part, I also think you need one action and one form for all your tabs. For the view part, check Tiles : there is an example of tabs (struts-tiles/examples/summariesTabs.jsp). You can easily adapt it to your needs. You can create a body with the submit/cancel button, and insert tabs in this body.
Cedric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One other question though now that I am looking at this a little closer: > > Each of my individual JSP's should not have a Submit/Cancel/Reset for each > page. I was thinking about having one and only one Submit/Cancel button. > So I would probobly use a Frame and have a target window (which would be > filled in by one of the 5 different JSP files). The outer frame itself > would contain the Submit button (but would not necessarily have to be a > frame). The outer frame would also contain the links that would invoke > the corresponding Form-Action load for that respective JSP. > > Would that be a viable approach rather than having a "Submit" button on > each tab? I would only need to do my required fields check when they hit > the global submit (in which case I can redirect them to the specific JSP > that needs to be corrected should an error occur). > > Please let me know if I am on the right wave length here. > > thanks, > Theron K > > > Rob Breeds > <Rob_Breeds@u To: Struts Users Mailing List > k.ibm.com> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: > 03/04/02 Subject: Re: Advice requested, what's >the best way to > 09:22 AM mimic tab panes in Struts? > Please > respond to > Struts Users > Mailing List > > > > 1 ActionForm (session scope), 5 ActionMappings, one Action, 5 JSPs. Each > tab has link which submits form with that tab's form values, the tab submit > link is differentiated by mapping parameter attribute (or hidden form > field). ActionForm validate checks data is OK. Each submit of the current > tab is redirected back to the input page (the current tab). If the user > changes tabs, the mapping simply redirects to the appropriate page. Only > when the user clicks the final 'commit this lot' link should the Action > actually process the data. > > Rob > > theron.kousek@ > webmd.net To: Struts Users Mailing List > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: > 04/03/2002 Subject: Advice requested, > what's the best way to mimic tab panes in Struts? > 17:11 > Please respond > to "Struts > Users Mailing > List" > > Hi Folks: > > We're converting much of our GUI (written in JFC/Swing) to thin client > using HTML-JavaScript and the struts framework. > > I have converted a few of the simpler maintenance screens using the > framework and (thanks to you all) have learned quite a bit with struts. > > There is a screen that I need to convert though which has 5 panes in a > JTabbedPane control. Each pane refers to input in a different table but > all 5 panes together serve to obtain information about a Process Setup for > claims. So in other words, you fill out the info for all 5 tabs and when > you hit "Ok", required field checks are performed. If required fields are > ok, then data is gathered from each tab and the corresponding table is > updated for a total of 5 tables. But they all belong to the same SQL > transaction. So it is not valid to update just 1 of the 5 tables. It's > either all or none. So if the update/insert fails on any of the 5 > tables, then the whole transaction is rolled back and the user is informed > of the problem. > > With the JFC/Swing architecture, this is pretty easy to do. With struts > it seems different. Do I need to have 5 forms (each form mimicing a tab) > with a hyperlink of image files that look like tabs but have href's to the > 5 different forms? > > Here's my problem: > - Don't forms need to have a Submit button? If so, I can't do this. I > need to have 5 forms but one submit so that all 5 forms share the same > submit button (the 1 submit button would cause an action to take data off > of the 5 pages (or forms) and populate the tables directly. > > What would be the best way to do this? I can't use a wizard as the user > needs to be able to flip back and forth at will thru any of the 5 forms > before they hit the final "submit" button. > > thanks, > Theron > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: < > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: < > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: < > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: < > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
