Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Too much customization to use ad_form??

Michael, Showstoppers were TCL and ADP compatibility in a sense that ad_form didn't work hamoniously with plain HTML inputs declared in the ADP file. Matching ad_form -form elements (i.e. TCL file) with html input (ADP files) caused wether duplicity and overwriting conflicts or unawareness by ad_form. Plus, ad_form worflows didn't work as expected (i.e. edit_request, validate, on_submit, etc) As per your example, I can see now that the reason could be because I've tried b), replacing

by but without using . See example https://pastebin.com/fxGYn3dn I've used plain html inputs only. Then, I went to step c) and start coding the same html input in the ad_proc ad_form, hoping that it'd be enough to ad_form recognizes all those plain HTML inputs, present in the ADP file. That was my a mistake. Too easy to believe that would work :) I'm not familiar yet to acs-templating and formwidget tags. I'm going to get back to them, reshape ADP files, as per your example and share the results here. Thank you for sharing this case. It helped a lot to see a new perspective and how to use it, which I didn't even know it was possible. Best wishes,