Re: [Wonder-disc] AjaxAutoComplete bindings

[Kiyo W. <ac...@gm...>]

Thank you so much for your help David & Chuck!  It worked!!

Have a nice weekend,

Kiyo

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:59 AM, David LeBer <dle...@co...>wrote:

>
> On 20-Mar-09, at 9:27 AM, Kiyo Walker wrote:
>
>  Thanks again Chuck,
>>
>> Yes, I looked at AjaxExamples.  My code is below.  Could someone help me
>> with what I am doing wrong?  Currently, only AutoComplete works.
>>
>>
>> <webobject name="qTypeConsaltationForm">
>>                            <label class="questionLabel">Consultation Area:
>>                                <div class="formInputText"
>> style="width:80px;">
>>                                    <webobject
>> name="complexAjaxAutoComplete"></webobject>
>>                                    <webobject name =
>> "ConsultationUpdater"></webobject>
>>                                </div>
>>                            </label>
>>
>>                        <webobject name="updateConsultaion">
>>                            <label class="questionLabel" >Diagnosis:
>> </label>
>>                                <div class="formInputText"
>> style="width:80px;">
>>                                    <webobject
>> name="diagnosisBrowser"></webobject>
>>                                </div>
>>                           </webobject>
>>
>>                            <span><label class="questionLabel">Service:
>> </label>
>>                                <div class="formInputText"
>> style="width:80px;">
>>                                    <webobject name =
>> "serviceBrowser"></webobject>
>>                                </div>
>>                            </span>
>>                        <div style="clear:both"></div>
>>                        <div>Service: <webobject
>> name="service"></webobject></div>
>>
>>               </webobject>
>>
>
>
>
> I use the afterUpdateElement binding on the AjaxAutoComplte.
> AjaxAutoComplete does not hava a 'selection' binding like a WOBrowser or
> WOPopupButton. The item binding will not return the correct object if the
> user selects an object from the autocomplete popdown list. The value binding
> will return the correct value though. So in a selectObject method I use the
> value to find the appropriate object in my list of available objects. The
> side-effect of this is that the displayString needs to return a unique
> string for each object.
>
> I currently do something like this in a reusable component:
>
> html:
>
> <wo:AjaxAutoComplete class="to_one_search_field" list="$currentObjects"
> value = "$searchValue" item="$item" displayString = "$itemDisplayString"
> afterUpdateElement="$searchTermSelectedFunction"/>
> <wo name="SearchTermSelected"/>
>
> wod:
>
> SearchTermSelected : AjaxSubmitButton {
>  updateContainerID = ^updateContainerID; // passed in via a binding.
>  functionName = searchTermSelectedFunctionName;
>  action= selectObject;
> }
>
> java: (selected methods only)
>
> public String searchTermSelectedFunctionName() {
>        if (_safeElementID == null) {
>                _safeElementID
> =ERXStringUtilities.safeIdentifierName(this.context().elementID());
>        }
>        return "oxtorlu_" + _safeElementID + "CompleteFunction";
> }
>
> public String searchTermSelectedFunction() {
>        return "function(e) { " + searchTermSelectedFunctionName() + "();
> }";
> }
>
> public WOActionResults selectObject() {
>        //find the object and set it.
>        return null;
> }
>
> ;david
>
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