you may also try following if your problem did solved.
"Periodic Mass Load".equals(productStatus)
HTH
Ravindra Mandre
Bangalore
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Adrian Crum <adrian.c...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Remove the $ and curly brackets.
>
> -Adrian
>
> --- On Sun, 12/5/10, Shereen <sheri_ash...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Shereen <sheri_ash...@hotmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: comparing two dates using use-when
> > To: user@ofbiz.apache.org
> > Date: Sunday, December 5, 2010, 6:54 AM
> >
> > Hi All
> > Please all I need help on using the use-when attribute
> > I've made a product status field in the form and I want to
> > check for that
> > field this field s string and I can't use use- when with
> > strings
> > what I have done is this:
> > <actions>
> > <set field="productStatus"
> > value="product.ProductStatusId"/>
> > </actions>
> > This was to store the status of the product
> >
> > this is to change target when the status equals "Periodic
> > Mass Load"
> > <alt-target
> > use-when="${productStatus.equals('Periodic Mass Load')}"
> > target="updateProductChangeStatusPeriodicMassReady"/>
> >
> > this is a submit button I want to use also if the status
> > matches this value
> > "Periodic Mass Load"
> >
> > <field
> > name="submitButton" title="Periodic Mass Ready"
> > use-when="${productStatus.equals('Periodic Mass Load')}"
> > widget-style="smallSubmit"><submit
> > button-type="button"/></field>
> >
> > anyone can help or give me a link to read?
> > I duno how to check strings. I tried to remove spaces but
> > the problem
> > remains te same.
> > Instead of single quotes I put double quote and the same
> > problem remains
> >
> > here's the exception
> >
> > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
> > 2010-12-05 16:38:17,127 (http-0.0.0.0-8443-2)
> > [FlexibleStringExpander.java:692:ERROR] Error evaluating
> > expression
> > ${productStatus.equals('Periodic Mass Load')}:
> > javax.el.ELException: Error
> > parsing '${productStatus.equals('Periodic Mass Load')}':
> > syntax error at
> > position 22, encountered '(', expected '}'
> > 2010-12-05 16:38:17,157 (http-0.0.0.0-8443-2)
> > [StandardWrapperValve.java:274:ERROR] Servlet.service() for
> > servlet
> > ControlServlet threw exception
> > bsh.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 1, column
> > 26. Encountered: "e"
> > (101), after : "\'P"
> > at
> > bsh.ParserTokenManager.getNextToken(Unknown Source)
> > at
> > bsh.Parser.jj_scan_token(Unknown Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_138(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_129(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_98(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_57(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_33(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_107(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_70(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_39(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_134(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_106(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_69(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_37(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_101(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_57(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_33(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_107(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_70(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_39(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_133(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_104(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_58(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3R_33(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_3_8(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.jj_2_8(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at
> > bsh.Parser.Expression(Unknown Source)
> > at
> > bsh.Parser.StatementExpression(Unknown Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.Statement(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at
> > bsh.Parser.BlockStatement(Unknown Source)
> > at bsh.Parser.Line(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at
> > bsh.Interpreter.parseScript(Unknown Source)
> > at bsh.Interpreter.eval(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Interpreter.eval(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at bsh.Interpreter.eval(Unknown
> > Source)
> > at
> > org.ofbiz.widget.form.ModelForm.getTarget(ModelForm.java:1967)
> > at
> >
> org.ofbiz.widget.form.MacroFormRenderer.renderFormOpen(MacroFormRenderer.java:1237)
> > at
> >
> org.ofbiz.widget.form.ModelForm.renderSingleFormString(ModelForm.java:879)
> > at
> > org.ofbiz.widget.form.ModelForm.renderFormString(ModelForm.java:837)
> > at
> >
> org.ofbiz.widget.screen.ModelScreenWidget$Form.renderWidgetString(ModelScreenWidget.java:840)
> >
> >
> >
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