[ajax cforms] tabs loaded with separate requests

[Leszek Gawron <lg...@mobilebox.pl>]

I am in a need of a following functionality, so if anybody could outline 
me the possible solution I will do the implementation:

I have a large form with lots of read only data ( repeaters ). When I 
say large I mean dynamic html up to 1 MB. The form is organized in 
several tabs (one repeater per each repeater). What I would like to 
achieve is to order cforms to load the tab on request. This probably 
requires some javascript event handlers on client side along with 
conditional view generation in the pipeline.

Is this feasible?

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Re: [ajax cforms] tabs loaded with separate requests

[Sylvain Wallez <sy...@apache.org>]

Leszek Gawron wrote:
> I am in a need of a following functionality, so if anybody could 
> outline me the possible solution I will do the implementation:
>
> I have a large form with lots of read only data ( repeaters ). When I 
> say large I mean dynamic html up to 1 MB. The form is organized in 
> several tabs (one repeater per each repeater). What I would like to 
> achieve is to order cforms to load the tab on request. This probably 
> requires some javascript event handlers on client side along with 
> conditional view generation in the pipeline.
>
> Is this feasible?

You could have each tab be a different form, and thus a different page.

But if you want/need to have everything in a single page, you can have 
the form definition contain one group per tab, with only the initial 
group being active, all others having state "invisible".

Then you can have the tab labels be links to actions that not only 
change the displayed tab, but also change the corresponding group's 
state to "active".

Sylvain

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