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 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>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] > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>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] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]