Re: Passing values between elements

Hi, Jesus,

On Mar 29, 2006, at 11:05 AM, jesus Guzman wrote:

> I have a similar requirement, but how do you distingluish between  
> the "accept" action and the "refresh 2nd pupup" action on submit.
> since you trigger the accept on the 1st popups change

I put the first pop-up in its own form. When it returns, I know the  
value selected there, persist it in the WOComponent and don't need to  
see it again on the second submit.

Regards,
Jerry

> On Mar 29, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Jerry W. Walker wrote:
>
>> Hi, Siegfried,
>>
>> I did something similar in an application a while back.  
>> Translating the problem domain for that application to your two  
>> button names: I created my page with the Location pop-up's list  
>> attribute bound to the initialized array of locations. I bound the  
>> Building pop-up's list attribute to an empty array. I also added  
>> the onChange attribute to the Location button:
>>
>>     onChange = "javascript:this.form.target='_parent';  
>> this.form.submit()"
>>
>> The action method for the form submission used the Location's  
>> selection attribute value in an EOQualifier which I used to fetch  
>> the values for the Building's array for that location. The action  
>> method, of course, returned context().page() to display the same  
>> page again, but with the Building's pop up filled in.
>>
>> By adding the "onChange" attribute to the Location's pop-up, you  
>> save the user having to click a button after selecting the  
>> location. The page still has to refresh, but it feels a bit more  
>> convenient having the page refresh automatically upon selecting a  
>> Location.
>>
>> For a smoother approach without page refresh, you would have to  
>> move to Ajax or download the complete Buildings array initially to  
>> some JavaScript variable and play some games with JavaScript to  
>> filter the ones you want based on the Location selection.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jerry
>>
>> On Mar 29, 2006, at 6:46 AM, Siegfried Makedanz wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have two dynamic elements (WOPopUpButton) named Locations and  
>>> Buildings. Now I would like to set the list binding in the  
>>> Buildings array based on the selection in Locations. Probably an  
>>> easy one, but as a sporadic WO user I have no clue yet.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Siegfried
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