I'm trying to use the search widget. I didn't find much documentation
on this feature so after some plowing through acs-templating/tcl/* it
looks like one must do something like:
template::element create user_form person_id
-widget search
-datatype search
-label {Name}
-search_query {
select last_name, person_id
from persons
where last_name like :value}
-value $person_id
The value posted does indeed get validated, and I get an error message
if I put in a non-existent last name. The system will redisplay the
form with a select widget of all possible names if multiple values
match the query. It will also translate the
entered value into an integer based on the search_query, but right now
it won't do it (I've seen it in my travels, but...).
Any insights as to why my use of the search widget and datatype are
not working? Thanks for a really useful element template.
