Hi, Scott,
> var form new Form(FormDefinitionURI);
> var widget = form.lookupWidget("mySelectionListFieldWidget");
> widget.setValue("InitialSelectedValue");
> form.showForm("my-display-pipeline");
does this work for you? I did exactly the samething, but it doesn't work.
Thanks!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Yeadon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [CForm] how to setValue for a field of selection list?
> Christina,
>
> I suspect the problem could be that you need to force a redisplay of the
> page for the value to be shown - in all the instances I set selection
> list values, the form always gets re-displayed. Depending on your
> application you could do this via an action or specifying
> submit-on-change="true" in the form template. There may be some other
> mechanism (such as calling showFom again), or some other reason for the
> problem, but I've only just started using cocoon so who knows!
>
> Anyway, the flowscript I use to set the initial value is as follows:
>
> var form new Form(FormDefinitionURI);
> var widget = form.lookupWidget("mySelectionListFieldWidget");
> widget.setValue("InitialSelectedValue");
> form.showForm("my-display-pipeline");
>
> which seems to be what you're using, so I suspect not redisplaying your
> page after a subsequent setValue is the problem.
>
> Scott.
>
> Christina wrote:
>
> >Scott,
> > I used the widget.setValue("selectedValue"), but what's shown in the
form
> >is still the default value. this setValue works for other fields, but
> >obviously it doesn't work for fields with a selection list
> > Thanks
> >Christina
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Scott Yeadon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 3:37 PM
> >Subject: Re: [CForm] how to setValue for a field of selection list?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Christina,
> >>
> >>If you're saving the last selected value to a database and want to set
> >>the value to what the user selected last save, you need to be able to
> >>indicate which value was last selected, either via database field, XML
> >>attribute (if an XML database), or preferences file, or some other
> >>mechanism. If you know what was last selected you can then use the
> >>setValue call.
> >>
> >>Scott.
> >>
> >>Christina wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>No, I mean the selection list is already there.
> >>>What I want to do is to select a value from the list and show it on the
> >>>page, instead of the default value every time.
> >>>for example,
> >>>at first use select a value and save it. when he access this page
again,
> >>>
> >>>
> >I
> >
> >
> >>>fetch the value from db and set the value to that droplist.
> >>>user can select another value if he want to change it.
> >>>
> >>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>From: "Stephane Delort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:16 AM
> >>>Subject: Re: [CForm] how to setValue for a field of selection list?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Hi Christina,
> >>>>
> >>>>maybe you should take a look at the "setSelectionList" function.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>here is a sample of code I use to fill mine (as javascript in a cform
> >>>>template):
> >>>>
> >>>>var langWidget = event.source.lookupWidget("../lang");
> >>>>size = 10;
> >>>>for( var i=1; i < size; i++) {
> >>>> data.lang[i] = {value: languages.getValue(i), label:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>languages.getLabel(i)};
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>}
> >>>>langWidget.setSelectionList(data.lang, "value", "label");
> >>>>
> >>>>//languages is an home made java class
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>hope this help,
> >>>>Stephane
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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