[Xsltforms-support] Form data modification with Javascript

[Ivan P. <ipo...@ma...>]

Hello,

We are using xsltForms for quite a while. Great idea and a great 
implementation. Still our developers constantly face several problems 
that I can't solve. Probably someone has already overcome them. Help for 
any of these issues will be appreciated, and we'll be glad to provide 
further information, if needed.

Instead of putting the whole list in one email, I decided to break it 
into several separate emails to make it easier to maintain separate 
conversations.

1. We sometimes need to select value from a huge list, stored in the 
database. Traditional comboboxes and scrollboxes is not a solution in 
this case, because the whole list of values (tens of thousands of 
records) can't be placed in a webpage source. We have written special 
Javascript (GWT) code, that shows a dialogue that allows one to filter 
and pick a value from a huge list using AJAX techniques. The dialogue 
saves chosen value (id and name) into the instance and refreshes the 
whole form (xforms.ready = false; xforms.refresh(); xforms.ready = 
true;). The problem of such an approach is that this type of refresh 
sometimes fails to refresh constraints. The question is: what is the 
most reliable way to automate insertion of data into form fields using 
Javascript?


Regards,

Ivan Ponomarev