thanks Robert:
I don't feel so bad. I was stuck for 3 hours on this doggone dilema (not to mention a little bit of cussing) and tried quite a few things prior to my final solution of the intermediate JSP to set the property... I did not think that setting a form object's values from html/javascript was going to be *this* difficult. If there was a way to force a form object's values to be loaded without having to do a submit in javascript, my problem would have been solved. This was one of those things where I thought it would take me 5-10 minutes to do and ended up being 3 hours. Adding the "intermediate" JSP seemed to be a "hack" at first but based on what you just told me, I guess it's a normal thing :-) It works now and it works beautifully but it sure is alot harder to do then when the screen was in a JTabbedPane using Swing :-) thanks, Theron Robert Nocera <rnocera@neos To: Struts Users Mailing List llc.com> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: 03/11/02 Subject: RE: Found Solution to setting server side parm in 11:16 AM Javascript BUT.... Please respond to Struts Users Mailing List Theron, There isn't an easier way because a FormBean is a server-side object. You might think that your html page has access to it, but it's only because of the sleight of hand involved in JSP programming. Since a JSP is actually a servlet, it is only sending HTML to a browser so your browser knows nothing of these objects. Robert Nocera New England Open Solutions www.neosllc.com "You supply the vision, we'll do the rest." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 7:21 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Found Solution to setting server side parm in Javascript BUT.... After spending 2 hours trying to find a solution to this, I found one by trial and error... BUT THERE HAS GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY :-) Here's what I did but I can't believe it's "this" difficult to do... Here's my checkfield property that needs to "force a form value to be updated": <html:select property="psdProductType" size="1" onchange="setCurrProductType(this.value)"> <html:options collection="psbusinesstype" property="value" labelProperty="label"/> </html:select> Here's the javascript function: function setCurrProductType(inProductType) { alert("Setting curr product type to: " + inProductType); window.location="SetProperty.jsp?enteredPt="+inProductType; } ---- and here's the SetProperty.jsp ----------------------------- <%@ taglib uri="/struts-bean" prefix="bean" %> <bean:define id="psInfo" name="psSession" type="express.EBPsSession" scope ="session" /> <bean:define id="psForm" name="psForm" type="express.psForm" scope ="session" /> <% // // If they changed the product type on the first page, set it // here in the form object... // String sCurrProductType=request.getParameter("enteredPt"); psInfo.setCurrProductType(sCurrProductType); System.out.println("Current Product Type = " + psInfo.getCurrProductType() + " current page = " + psInfo.getCurrpage()); psForm.setPsdProductType(psInfo.getCurrProductType()); %> <jsp:forward page="PsPage.jsp"/> -------------------- So in essence, the "forward" tag simply causes control to come back to the page I was on... But in-between, I was able to set a form bean property.... Again my problem is the form bean property is not updated until you hit the submit button... In this case, I don't want a submit to occur when you change the contents of the dropdown. Only the property for that drop down should change... After adding this, when I click to go to the 4th tab, the action now sees the newly changed value.... It works BUT I have to believe there's a better way!!! I open to any suggestions... theron.kousek @webmd.net To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/10/02 cc: 02:32 PM Subject: setting server side parm in Javascript? Please respond to Struts Users Mailing List Hi Folks: I'm doing a mimic-JTabbedPane approach. I have a screen with 5 tabs. I am using 1 form object and 5 action mappings... On tab 4, I'd like to detect changes made to a field on tab 1. I notice I can change the field on tab 1 but tab 4 does not know about until the form is submitted. I can't submit the form... I'd like to have a Javascript handler that implements the onchange() and somehow sets a session attribute or some kind of trigger that tells tab 4 to "reload" itself when this field on tab 1 has changed. I notice if I change these values, the form object will not get the new values until you hit submit. Having the javascript function call submit is not an option either... Any ideas on how best to do this?? If I could access my form-bean directly within the Javascript method, that would be an option to (as I could call the set method on the form object) but I am not sure if the javascript can access the form object directly and call a set method? 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]>