Adam's answer is absolutely correct, however let me add more details
to make your job a little bit easier.
1. Create and action called loadTrainee.do and associate this action
with your form. with a forward to chooseTraineePage.jsp
2. Invoke chooseTranies.do?traineeId=xxxx, struts, will call the
action in 1 and automatically populate your form's traineeId for you
3. In action1, write some code to use traineeId to fill "name", struts will
then forward your form to chooseTraineePage.jsp to display
In summary, you need 2 actions, one to to load the form and the other one
is to manipulate the form
Hope this helps
-D
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: Struts
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: Initialize Struts form with request parameters
> This would happen automatically if you access the JSP via an action
> mapping in your struts-config. You specify the action class, the action
> form and the forward/jsp. struts will automatically instantiate the form
> when the request comes in and populate the form properties with any
> equivalent request parameters.
>
> hth
> Adam
>
> Tien Nguyen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have a problem with struts form.
> >
> > The form is:
> > <html:form action="chooseTrainee">
> > <html:hidden property="traineeId"/>
> > <html:text property="name"/>
> > <html:submit value="Submit"/>
> > </html:form>
> >
> > and the ActionForm has the following properties (fields and
> > getters/setters):
> > traineeId
> > name
> >
> > What I want is: the traineeId must be initialized by a value passed via
> > URL:
> > e.g: http://localhost/test/chooseTraineePage.jsp?traineeId=12345
> >
> > How can I do that?
> > Your reply is highly appreciated!
> > Thanks
> > Tien
> >
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> > struts-user Digest 1 Jul 2003 13:07:49 -0000 Issue 3513
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> > Topics (messages 84024 through 84051):
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> > show selected value in html:options field
> > 84024 by: Stefan Schaebel
> >
> > Re: <logic:equal> with sessionAttributes
> > 84025 by: Nicolas De Loof
> > 84026 by: Filip Polsakiewicz
> >
> > Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Struts 1.1 Final released
> > 84027 by: Arnaud HERITIER
> >
> > Re: Can I have a _not_ URL encoded?
> > 84028 by: Marco Maier
> > 84029 by: Samuel.Opoku-Boadu.t-systems.com
> >
> > Re: setting input for action
> > 84030 by: thart.part.net
> >
> > Validations in Struts 1.0
> > 84031 by: sriram
> >
> > Populating select boxes dynamically
> > 84032 by: sriram
> > 84043 by: Alex Shneyderman
> >
> > disabling form element
> > 84033 by: Frances Aleah Z. de Guzman
> > 84034 by: Mark Lowe
> >
> > REPOST: Help! - java.security.AccessControlException
> > 84035 by: White, Joshua A (HTSC, CASD)
> >
> > Problem With Struts1.1 Example
> > 84036 by: Saroj Kumar Choudhury
> >
> > knowing which DispatchAction called an Action
> > 84037 by: Ionel Gardais
> >
> > where does a form element get and put it's data
> > 84038 by: Heather Buch
> > 84040 by: Adam Hardy
> >
> > Newbie question: DispatchAction subclassing
> > 84039 by: Paula Coll
> >
> > Upgrading to Struts 1.1
> > 84041 by: Natalie D Rassmann
> > 84051 by: Hajratwala, Nayan (N.)
> >
> > Display table contents
> > 84042 by: Arnost Foo
> >
> > Tag to remove jsp from cache???
> > 84044 by: Prashanth.S
> > 84046 by: Alex Shneyderman
> > 84048 by: Nicolas De Loof
> >
> > External style sheets and tiles.
> > 84045 by: James Watkins
> > 84047 by: Nicolas De Loof
> >
> > Could not parse deployment descriptor: java.io.IOException: cannot
> > resolve '/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld' into a valid tag library
> > 84049 by: PREETAM Balijepalli
> > 84050 by: Adam Hardy
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