Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 14898
need way to prepopulate checkbox and multi-select fields on error
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:27:52 EDT
Regarding the form pane, /apps/formmail/. When the user makes a mistake on a required field, he gets the form back with a message. The pane allows Production to add some code to the form itself so that the form fields are prepopulated, and the user doesn't have to fill them all out again. Except that there's no way to do this for checkboxes and multiselects. This feature really does't do us much good unless we can prepopulate ALL of the fields.
Tom, a hint from the modperl list.... See me about a way to use this idea with nifty Apache::ASP custom tags.. There is the HTML::FillInForm module that will pre fill your forms. It is pure Perl. It seems to work well, haven't stress tested it yet. I am using it in conjunction with Apache::ASP, but haven't hacked the Apache::ASP module to include it as a function. It is much easier to work with now that Joshua has added the $Response->TrapInclude function (thank you). I just keep my form in an include file, read it in to my script/page with the $Response->TrapInclude then send the it through HTML::FillInForm with my values I want in the form. This is all it takes - use HTML::FillInForm; my $fif = new HTML::FillInForm; my $html = $Response->TrapInclude('dbd_form.inc'); my $output = $fif->fill(scalarref => $html, fdat => \%form_content); print "$output";
Fixed this using the Module Paul recommended HTML::FillInForm, though it needed some patching to work properly on upper case HTML and checkboxes. The new custom tag which should be used for forms needing this functionality is <Apps:fillin></Apps:fillin>. This should surround the <form></form> tags. I have applied this to the pages in apps/response ( the oracle and IA64 contact forms ). I noticed in doing this that the checkboxes on oracle_81contact.html didn't appear to be right; there's a series of them with the same name and different values, a la radio button. I'm not sure you're supposed to do that with checkboxes. Correct me if I'm wrong, though. I'll submit a separate bug for that one.
This isn't working for me. I've tried it with and without the perl code in the page. I think it's supposed to be without. I noticed that the <Apps:fillin> and < /Apps:fillin> are still showing up in the source - shouldn't they have disappeared? Maybe something needs to be done to my sandbox to make that work? I committed the page I'm working on: http://sassy.soma.redhat.com:8500/apps/response/enroll_channel.html
I tihnk /apps/global.asa and /home/httpd/lib/HTML/FillInForm ( plus HTML::Parser ) need to be updated on that machine. Paul??
No, those files are already updated. Are there any others I may be missing?