Hi Gary,
i suppose you are using Ajax, since without ajax it works correctly.
What's going on is basically this :
- The hidden field is rendered in the form instance with a placeholder
- The placeholder does not contains a label, so the <label> html element
is generated but is empty
- Once the widget becomes visible, a <bu:replace> is generated so that
ajax can update the widget status
- Unfortunately, ajax only updates the <span> containing the input, and
not the connected <label>
IMMO there are cases (like transition from invisible to visible) where a
bu:replace should be issued for "the entire widget", which mean the
label and even eventually the <tr> that contains the widget, since i
would expect an invisible field not to generate a <tr> in a columns
layout, but the <tr> to appear when the widget becomes visible, but this
is not easy nor tidy to implement.
As a work around, you could try the ajax fine tuning patch found here
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-1774 that should permit you
to disable ajax on the triggering widget, thus causing a complete page
reload only in that case. If this patch acts as a workaround, then
please add a comment on the bug to let other people know and vote for it
so that it get included in cocoon faster.
Another really untidy workaround could be to put the field inside a
repeater (don't know if other kind of container widgets could work as
well) and then force an ajax repeater update. Ajax updates the entire
repeater content (table or whatever else) when a row is added or removed
from a repeater, so it will update everything. You can trigger a
repeater complete ajax update with form.addWidgetUpdate(repeaterWidget).
Anyway, fill a bug in jira ( http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON
) for this issue.
If you are brave, you could try to modify the cocoon forms XSL/write a
new XSL to act this way :
- put an id on the label elements, something like [inputname]:label.
- when a bu:replace is generated, generate a companion bu:replace for
the label.
Hope this is somehow helpful,
Simone
Stewart, Gary wrote:
I've got a form with an invisible item and a radio box that will set it to
active. It works fine except the label doesn't appear. The definition looks
something like:
(On the widget):
<fd:on-create>
<fd:javascript>
this.setState(Packages.org.apache.cocoon.forms.formmodel.WidgetState.INVISIBLE);
</fd:javascript>
</fd:on-create>
(On the activating widget):
<fd:on-value-changed>
<fd:javascript>
var dod_widget = event.source.parent.lookupWidget("dod");
if(event.source.value == "0")
{
dod_widget.setState(Packages.org.apache.cocoon.forms.formmodel.WidgetState.INVISIBLE);
dod_widget.value = "";
}
else //1
{
dod_widget.setState(Packages.org.apache.cocoon.forms.formmodel.WidgetState.ACTIVE);
}
</fd:javascript>
</fd:on-value-changed>
Is there anything else I need to set to make the label appear? I've tried using the
column group layout for it and just "manually" having the label in the form but
neither seem to show the label when the widget becomes active.
Thanks,
Gary
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