[CForms] Form not submitting

[Christofer Dutz <du...@c-ware.de>]

Hi 

 

I am having some Trouble submitting a form with anything else than a button.
With buttons everything is fine, when using a link for example nothing
happens and my browser (InternetExplorer) complains about a not supported
function. While debugging I traced the problem down back to the last row of
forms_submitForm(element, name) in forms-lib.js

This is the command that seems to be failing: 

form.submit(); 

I don't understand why. The object is a form-tag an so it should support the
submit() method.

Why doesn't this work?

 

Chris

AW: AW: [CForms] Form not submitting

[Christofer Dutz <du...@c-ware.de>]

Yippee . 

I always seem to find all problems in a product that have been solved in the
developer-release, but have not yet been released. At least this stupid
problem didn't cost as much time as a typical Eclipse GEF problem ;-)

 

Chris

 

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Von: Philippe Gassmann [mailto:philippe.gassmann@anyware-tech.com] 
Gesendet: Freitag, 7. Oktober 2005 16:42
An: users@cocoon.apache.org
Betreff: Re: AW: [CForms] Form not submitting

 

Christofer Dutz wrote: 

Found the problem . it was a totally different one . I would have never
looked in that direction.

 

On my form I had one button for submitting with validation (simple submit
widget) and several other buttons for doing all sorts of stuff. As the
submit button is used for submitting I called it "submit" (pretty cool
Idea?!?) . well. It seems that Idea was not so good after all. When calling
the form.submit() in the forms-lib.js the js-engine sort of gets confused
with the element with the id "submit", which is a child of the form element
and the function submit which belongs to the form-object.

In the current SVN, cocoon developpers has banned the use of a submit widget
named "submit". It now throws an exception... and will save a lot of time to
users :)

Re: AW: [CForms] Form not submitting

[Philippe Gassmann <ph...@anyware-tech.com>]

Christofer Dutz wrote:

> Found the problem ... it was a totally different one ... I would have 
> never looked in that direction.
>
>  
>
> On my form I had one button for submitting with validation (simple 
> submit widget) and several other buttons for doing all sorts of stuff. 
> As the submit button is used for submitting I called it "submit" 
> (pretty cool Idea?!?) ... well. It seems that Idea was not so good 
> after all. When calling the form.submit() in the forms-lib.js the 
> js-engine sort of gets confused with the element with the id "submit", 
> which is a child of the form element and the function submit which 
> belongs to the form-object.
>
In the current SVN, cocoon developpers has banned the use of a submit 
widget named "submit". It now throws an exception... and will save a lot 
of time to users :)

AW: [CForms] Form not submitting

[Christofer Dutz <du...@c-ware.de>]

Found the problem … it was a totally different one … I would have never
looked in that direction.

 

On my form I had one button for submitting with validation (simple submit
widget) and several other buttons for doing all sorts of stuff. As the
submit button is used for submitting I called it “submit” (pretty cool
Idea?!?) … well. It seems that Idea was not so good after all. When calling
the form.submit() in the forms-lib.js the js-engine sort of gets confused
with the element with the id “submit”, which is a child of the form element
and the function submit which belongs to the form-object.

After changing the submit-buttons Name from “submit” to “save” everything is
working like a charm.

I sort of really hate these problems, that eat up your time and the solution
is no real satisfaction :-(

Well how about putting that in a HowTo or in the docu of the action-widgets.

Tanks any way,

            Chris

 

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Von: Philippe Gassmann [mailto:philippe.gassmann@anyware-tech.com] 
Gesendet: Freitag, 7. Oktober 2005 16:21
An: users@cocoon.apache.org
Betreff: Re: [CForms] Form not submitting

 

Christofer Dutz wrote: 

Hi 

 

I am having some Trouble submitting a form with anything else than a button.
With buttons everything is fine, when using a link for example nothing
happens and my browser (InternetExplorer) complains about a not supported
function. While debugging I traced the problem down back to the last row of
forms_submitForm(element, name) in forms-lib.js

This is the command that seems to be failing: 

form.submit(); 

I don’t understand why. The object is a form-tag an so it should support the
submit() method.

Why doesn’t this work?

 

Chris

You have to know the submit id of the submit widget you want to submit (humm
a lot of submits...). One you know that you can do something like : 



<a href="#" onclick="forms_submitForm(this, 'my-submit-id'); return false">
    Submit my form 
</a>

Where have you put your forms_submitForm ?





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Philippe GASSMANN
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ANYWARE TECHNOLOGIES
Tel : +33 (0)5 61 00 52 90
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Re: [CForms] Form not submitting

[Philippe Gassmann <ph...@anyware-tech.com>]

Christofer Dutz wrote:

> Hi
>
>  
>
> I am having some Trouble submitting a form with anything else than a 
> button. With buttons everything is fine, when using a link for example 
> nothing happens and my browser (InternetExplorer) complains about a 
> not supported function. While debugging I traced the problem down back 
> to the last row of forms_submitForm(element, name) in forms-lib.js
>
> This is the command that seems to be failing:
>
> form.submit();
>
> I don't understand why. The object is a form-tag an so it should 
> support the submit() method.
>
> Why doesn't this work?
>
>  
>
> Chris
>
You have to know the submit id of the submit widget you want to submit 
(humm a lot of submits...). One you know that you can do something like :



<a href="#" onclick="forms_submitForm(this, 'my-submit-id'); return false">
    Submit my form
</a>

Where have you put your forms_submitForm ?


-- 
Philippe GASSMANN
Systèmes d'Information
ANYWARE TECHNOLOGIES
Tel : +33 (0)5 61 00 52 90
Fax : +33 (0)5 61 00 51 46
http://www.anyware-tech.com/