custom controller adds unwanted "New" action button

[Lucio Crusca]

When my application uses the default "Typical" controller, at the end of detail forms I have only the "Save" button and that's exactly how I like it.

However I need to define a custom controller so that my application does not show a new empty record after "Save" was clicked, but keeps the saved record on screen for further editing.

I then added this in controllers.xml

    <controller name="KeepEditingEntityAfterSave">
        <extends controller="Typical"/>
        <action name="save" mode="detail"
            class="org.openxava.actions.SaveAction"
            keystroke="control s"
            confirm="false"
            label="Salva">           
            <set property="resetAfter" value="false"/>
            <use-object name="xava_view"/>
        </action>               

    </controller>

and changed this in application.xml

    <default-module>          
        <controller name="KeepEditingEntityAfterSave"/> 
        <!--  <controller name="Typical"/>   -->    
    </default-module>

It mostly works, but now the detail view shows two buttons at their bottom (see the attached image), and I want only one (only the "Save" button like before).

How do I achieve that?

[Javier Paniza]

Hi Lucio:

You have to add by-default="if-possible" to your action, thus:

 <controller name="KeepEditingEntityAfterSave">
        <extends controller="Typical"/>
        <action name="save" mode="detail"
             add by-default="if-possible"    
            class="org.openxava.actions.SaveAction"
            keystroke="control s"
            confirm="false"
            label="Salva">           
            <set property="resetAfter" value="false"/>
            <use-object name="xava_view"/>
        </action>

    </controller>

BTW, OpenXava already includes a controller like yours, it is called TypicalNotResetOnSave, so you could solve your case just with this:

<default-module>          
    <controller name="TypicalNotResetOnSave"/> 
</default-module>

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