In the home page we have, where more than one form is required, we have used frames. The frames src points to action which prepopulates the form and is displayed in the jsp. Which also means there is a separate jsp page for each form.
Jayaraman -----Original Message----- From: Rick Reumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:56 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: one more prepopulate question On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:50:56 -0500 "Sri Sankaran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where are you running into a problem? I think the initial problem was how you would pre-populate several ActionForms inside of one Action and then be able to use those ActionForms to create several forms in the resulting JSP page. >From what I can gather this is not too difficult as all you would do is create as many ActionForm instances as you need in your SetupAction and then put them all into request scope. You then can set up multiple forms as you see fit on the fowarded to JSP page. The only thing I haven't found a nice work around for is that you can only use one mapping.getAttribute() call in the Action for the form associated with that Action. In example will help. You have an Action class that you want to use to prepopulate three Action Forms and then forward to a JSP page and set up three separate forms. So you might have a mapping... <action path="/setupMultipleForms" type="foo.bar.SetUpFormsAction" name="form1" scope="request" validate="false" > <forward name="continue" path="/severalFormsOnAPage.jsp"/> </action> So now in the SetUpFormsAction you can easily put Form1 into scope by: Form1 form1 = (Form1)form; form1.setFoo("hello"); request.setAttribute(mapping.getAttribute(), form1 ); But now for another ActionForm (Form2) to put into scope you'd have Form2 form2 = new Form2(); form2.setFooBar("BLA"); request.setAttribute( "form2", form2 ); The part I don't like is you now have to remember that you need to remember that you HAVE to refer to your Form2 object as "form2" in your mapping set up in your struts-config.xml file or else you JSP page will not be able to find it. It's not a super big deal, but a bit annoying. Maybe there is another way to do it that I'm missing. -- Rick Reumann --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
