Forum OpenACS Q&A: Floating point numbers in ad_form

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1: Floating point numbers in ad_form
Posted by Keith Paskett on 04/29/03 07:14 AM

I'm trying to use ad_form to generate a form with floating point numbers and I'm getting nowhere in the documentation.

ad_form documentation says "Because of this, you can use any form builder datatype or widget with this procedure", but can't find a list of form builder datatypes.

Here's my code snippet: 

        {q1:integer(text)        {label " Planning - Hours"}
                                {optional}
                                {section " Program Management"}
                                {html {size 5}} }

I'v tried replacing integer with real, float, and number with no success.

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2: Re: Floating point numbers in ad_form (response to 1)
Posted by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini on 04/29/03 04:35 PM
search for valid types in the api-doc, do a search for: "template::data::validate::"
like here: https://openacs.org/api-doc/proc-search?query_string=template%3A%3Adata%3A%3Avalidate%3A%3A&search_type=Search&name_weight=5&param_weight=3&doc_weight=2
use the oacs 4.6.2 and it has a float validation.
you'll use as (if ain't worng)

{q1:float  {label " Planning - Hours"}
                                {optional}
                                {section " Program Management"}
                                {html {size 5}} }

I just created a naturalnum also, I'll submit the patch later =)

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3: Re: Floating point numbers in ad_form (response to 1)
Posted by Keith Paskett on 04/30/03 06:51 PM
4.6.2 appears to not have a float validation type.

I just set up a new ACS instance and float is not one of the types. Maybe it's in 4.7. I'll see about getting that and patch my 4.6.2 for now.

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4: Re: Floating point numbers in ad_form (response to 1)
Posted by Jeff Lu on 05/05/03 07:14 PM
will this help? you can use this:

ad_page_contract_filter_proc_float

Ive read the source and from what ive seen it uses regular expressions to check the variable

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5: Re: Floating point numbers in ad_form (response to 1)
Posted by Keith Paskett on 05/05/03 07:41 PM
That's a different beast but good to know it's there.

I checked out the head revision of OpenACS via CVS and float validation was there for the form manager.