Re: Help with a design issue that I'm stumped by....

You need 2 beeans.
One is a search bean, that will capture the submit of the search screen. 
(deartment, name, etc.)
After submit, you pass values to employeeBean.populate(v_dept, 
v_firstName, etc.). This then display a list of employees.
Also, the select statment needs to be dynamic.

.V

Rick Reumann wrote:

>I'm trying to follow the Basic Portal approach but I'm curious how to
>accomplish what should be a simple task using the basic portal
>framework...
>
>
>Imagine a EmployeeBean set up in the same way a basic portal bean is set
>up. Now the first page I come to is a "search criteria" screen where I
>can select how I want to search for a list of employees. So you would
>have a from where you can select "department", "firstName", etc. Hit
>submit and then you would be returned a list of employees matching the
>above criteria selected. 
>
>The problem is I want to use the EmployeeBean to capture the data
>submitted from the form. However all of the setters are set up as:
>setValue("param",paramValue) which of course tries to set the _current
>HashMap inherited from BaseBean. The problem is this HashMap will always
>be null under this situation (as it makes sense since there really isn't
>a current row to populate for setting up search criteria).
>
>So what is the solution to this? Should I instantiate the _current
>HashMap in the EmployeeBean constructor? or is there some other solution
>that I'm not getting a grasp of? 
>
>Please help:) Thanks,
>
>  
>

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