Forum OpenACS Q&A: radio buttons on different sections with ad_form

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1: radio buttons on different sections with ad_form
Posted by Bruno Mattarollo on 08/09/04 04:03 PM

Hello,

I am trying to have a radio button whose options are in different "sections" in the page. To make it clear, I have a radio button that has 5 different options and I want two to be grouped together and the other three together, something like: 

Section 1
( ) Option 1     ( ) Option 2

Section 2
( ) Option 3 ( ) Option 4 ( ) Option 5
I haven't found out a way to do this with the form builder as the widgets for the radio buttons are in a <formgroup>.

Any suggestions on how to deal with this? At the moment I am thinking on having two different radio buttons and then do the checks with javascript if all fails but that's really not something nice...

Thanks in advance.

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2: Re: radio buttons on different sections with ad_form (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 08/10/04 04:01 PM
The technique currently is to have the entire formtemplate in your ADP file.

So instead of

<formtemplate id="myform"></formtemplate> you'd have to put in all the <formwidget> etc calls inside the formtemplate tags.

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3: Re: radio buttons on different sections with ad_form (response to 2)
Posted by Andrei Popov on 08/11/04 01:29 PM

It maybe a good idea to refactor current templates to be more XHTML-friendly (at least as friendly as 'Transitional' goes). For instance — add <fieldset> instead of current table-based element grouping.

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4: Re: radio buttons on different sections with ad_form (response to 2)
Posted by Bruno Mattarollo on 08/12/04 05:00 AM

Thanks

It also happens that I didn't read carefully the documentation about formgroup, in particular the fact that if you use cols as a parameter in the tag, it behaves like the grid tag. So I used that and some custom stuff to make sure I display the section name from the template itself but I used a template from acs-templating/resources/forms/ instead so I can re-use it for several forms.

Thanks again

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5: Re: radio buttons on different sections with ad_form (response to 4)
Posted by Hamilton Chua on 12/02/06 02:10 AM
I tried to use the cols attribute on a formgroups tag in the standard.adp template in acs-templating/resources/forms but I get an error @formgroup.widget@ not found or something like that. If I remove that piece, I get another one complaining that it can't find @formgroup.option@.

It seems it's not seeing the formgroup variables.

Any ideas ?