[Wonder-disc] D2W Tip of the day: many props in one

[Anjo K. <an...@kr...>]

All,

I found myself having to do a wizard page with a bunch of all-custom property editors. So *normally* you'd have to create one editor for every property, but then it occurred to me that you can munge them all in one page:

EditVariantProperty.java:
public class EditVariantProperty extends ERDCustomEditComponent {
    public EditVariantProperty(WOContext context) {
        super(context);
    }
}

EditVariantProperty.wo:
<wo:ERXEqualConditional value1="$key" value2="prop1">
  some stuff
</wo:ERXEqualConditional>
<wo:ERXEqualConditional value1="$key" value2="prop2">
  other stuff
</wo:ERXEqualConditional>
<wo:else>
  <wo:textfield value ="$objectPropertyValue" /> 
</wo:else>

and a rule:

 pageConfiguration = "CreateFoo" => componentName = "EditVariantProperty"

I'm fully aware that this is not exactly recommended, but then again, it's not that different the way you'd write a plain Tab page. Given that the alternative was either a bunch of components I wouldn't ever touch again, this was a bit less effort. And you of course get all the benefits you get from a D2W page.

Maybe someone can use this :)

Cheers, Anjo