Re: [Xsltforms-support] Form data modification with Javascript

[COUTHURES A. <ala...@ag...>]

Hello Ivan,
> 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.
Can you tell me how many developers are using XSLTForms?
> 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?
Have a look at XFControl.prototype.valueChanged method: each time a node 
value is modified by a control, it is added in a list maintained for 
each model. This list is then read when refreshing.

Thank you for your feedbacks!

-Alain