Thanks Jason. I can able to access the widget now...

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From: Jason Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 7:14 PM
To: users@cocoon.apache.org
Subject: Re: Accessing the union type widget value

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 
>
> Can anyone tell me how can we access the union widget from the
flowscript?
>
> I have created a definition file as follows:-
>
> 
>
> <fd:form xmlns="http://apache.org/cocoon/forms/1.0#definition";
>       xmlns:i18n="http://apache.org/cocoon/i18n/2.1";
>       xmlns:fd="http://apache.org/cocoon/forms/1.0#definition";>
>     
>   <fd:widgets>
> 
>     <!-- case widget, with _c suffix -->
>     <fd:field id="student" required="true">
>       <fd:datatype base="string" />
>     </fd:field>
>   
>     <fd:union id="structStudent" case="student">
>       <fd:widgets>
>         <fd:struct id="firstname">
>           <fd:widgets>
>             <fd:field id="name">
>               <fd:datatype base="string" />
>             </fd:field>
>           </fd:widgets>
>         </fd:struct>
>         <fd:struct id="lastname">
>           <fd:widgets>
>
> </fd:widgets>
>         </fd:struct>  
>
>    </fd:widgets>
>     </fd:union>
>  
>   </fd:widgets>
> </fd:form>
>
> 
>
> The form is getting rendered correctly by giving the following code
>
> 
>
> var wid = frmView.getWidget();
>
> wid.lookupWidget(student').setValue('firstname')
>
> 
>
> It is displaying me a text box but if I want to access the firstname
how
> will I access?
>
> I tried accessing wid.lookupWidget(student').firstname which it is
> telling undefined.
>
> Can any one please  help me out in accessing the widget inside a
structure.

Try:

wid.lookupWidget("structStudent/firstname/name").getValue();

The argument to lookupWidget is an path-like string that allows you to
navigate the widget tree... you can use ".." to go up a level, etc.


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