Forum OpenACS Development: template::form::generate

I'm trying to use template::form::generate but I'm having problems I wrote this test page

        ad_form -name cal_item -form {   
                {title:text(text)
                        {label "title"}
                        {html {size 60} maxlength 255}
                }
                {date:date
                        {label "date"}
                }
        }

        set doc [template::form::generate cal_item]

with the following adp page

<formtemplate id=cal_item> </formtemplate>

@doc;noquote@

The formtemplate tag works fine but doc does not have the visible input tags. The hidden tags and the button are there as well as the titles. I noticed this function is marked private and I cannot find any place in the source tree that calls it. I'm running 5.0 HEAD so that could be the reason it does not work. Any ideas?

I need to build a form in a page that outputs javascript instead of HTML. I did the request page from page trick already but it's too slow. I might be able to use the templating system as it but I can't seem to set the mime type to text/javascript on the return page. This function does exactly what I need except it does not appear to work.

I read the docs, ad_form seems a little complicated and I suspect it's an upvar problem. I guess I'll try and track it down. Any reason this function is declared private?

Hi, I am new to OpenACS, I got problems with using ad_form. Please help me.

1) I got a psql table with the following attribute:
(ev_id, ev_date, ev_text) and i want to use ad_form for adding and updating the table. However I got problem dealing with the psql type "date",

ad_form -name myform -form {
  ev_id: key
  {ev_date:date {lable "Date"}}
  {ev_text:text(textarea) {label "text"}}
}

this will nicely print out widgets for inputing date. however, how can i put the default value when EDITING data? ie. if I used a normal select query in the -select_query option of ad form:
-select query {
  select ev_date, ev_text where ev_id = :ev_id
}

then one of the boxes in the date widgets is filled with the entire date value, with the others left blanked. Any hints?

2) in the -new_data option, i want to use queries in the xql file, but how can i get the "date" value from the date widgets? it returns a tcl list, but i don't know how to interpolate the list value in the xql file, therefore at the moment i am using the following for -new_data:
-new_data {
db_1row dummy \
"select myev__new(null, '[lindex $ev_date 0] [lindex $ev_date 1] [lindex $ev_date 2]', :ev_text, null, :user_id,null,null)"
}
but it would be good if someone can give me a hint on how i am going to use the list's values in the xql file.

Thanks

Vincent, this might help a little:

http://rubick.com:8002/openacs/ad_form