Forum OpenACS Development: Re: losing data from richtext after ad_form validation

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2: Re: losing data from richtext after ad_form validation (response to 1)
Posted by Antonio Pisano on 12/03/15 12:03 PM
Hello Priya,

could you tell me if you build your fields using ad_form or by direct template::* commands?

Also, what version of OpenACS are you running on?

I had some problem with richtext fields some time ago because I didn't consider that they are not a single value, but in fact a list of {content mime_type}. Maybe this is related to your issue.

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3: Re: losing data from richtext after ad_form validation (response to 2)
Posted by Priya Rao on 12/03/15 06:48 PM
Hi Antonio,
Thanks for the response. I am using ad_form and OpenACS version is 5.8.0.

Here is how I am using it:

ad_form -name user_info -form {
{user_id:key}
{name:text(inform) {label "Name :"} }
{interest:text(richtext) {label "Narrative :"} }
{keywords:text(text) {label "Keywords :"} }
} -edit_request {

# Get interest for the main site.
db_0or1row get_interest_and_keywords { }
set interest [template::util::richtext::create $interest text/html]

} -mode display -edit_data {

# Insert or Update research narrative

} -after_submit {

}


Thanks,
Priya

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4: Re: losing data from richtext after ad_form validation (response to 3)
Posted by Antonio Pisano on 12/03/15 08:08 PM
I think the guilty here is "display" set on the mode flag. If you change it to "edit", everything should work fine. Is there a reason why you set it on "display"?

From docs, it states that when a button is clicked, form should switch to edit mode automatically, but I don't know exactly what this should mean... Actually, I don't know if the behavior you have shown is correct either... form should not swallow your text whatever mode you give it.

Anyway, that should fix your problem.

All the best

http://www.openacs.org/api-doc/proc-view?proc=ad_form&source_p=1