Forum OpenACS Development: Re: ad_form vs. template::form vs. roll your own

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5: Re: ad_form vs. template::form vs. roll your own (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 01/17/04 10:29 PM
It is easy enough to build a single form with multiple rows as you describe.  Just use the -extend form of ad_form to add each select widget for the rows as you step through them.
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6: Re: ad_form vs. template::form vs. roll your own (response to 5)
Posted by Tilmann Singer on 01/18/04 02:41 PM
Creating your own layout within the templating system as Don said works like this:

<formtemplate id="myform">
some html stuff ...<br><br><br>
<formwidget id="mywidget1" size="20" ...>
...
</formtemplate>

As soon as the contents of the formtemplate tag are not empty it will use those to render the form instead of rendering it automatically.

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7: Re: ad_form vs. template::form vs. roll your own (response to 6)
Posted by Chris Davies on 01/18/04 06:42 PM
That was the piece I was missing.

I had done that, but wasn't reading the error message in the logs correctly.

formbutton:ok  :)

I was missing the :ok on that widget.

Thanks for the help everyone!