Re: returning user to the page they where on when they submitted the form?

[Laurie Harper <la...@holoweb.net>]

The answer is, there is no simple answer... assuming I understand what 
you want to do, that is.

I think what you're saying is you have a tile which contains a form and 
which you include on multiple logical pages, and that when the form 
contained in the tile is submitted you want to return to the logical 
page the form was submitted from.

Unfortunately, there's no reliable way to dynamically determine the URL 
of the logical page the form was submitted from. One solution is to 
include the URL you want the user returned to as a request parameter 
when the form is submitted.

Another solution is to have an action mapping for each logical page the 
tile can be part of so you can set up the 'input' attribute (or a nested 
'forward' element) appropriately, but that could get messy if you use 
the tile in a lot of different logical pages.

If you have URLs that are amenable to it, another possibility is to use 
wildcard action paths. That would allow you to have a single action 
mapping the form always sumbits through which uses a wildcard to match 
the URL to return to... For example, if you had an action mapping with 
path="/**/SubmitMySharedForm", you could set the 'input' attribute to 
'{1}' and have the form submit to 
'/url/to/return/to/SubmitMySharedForm.do'.

As I said, it's not as trivial a problem as it seems at first glance. 
Micheal's Struts Dialogs may help (I'll let him comment on that). And 
I'm sure there are lots of other possible approaches I haven't thought 
of off hand!

L.

Mick Knutson wrote:
> My issue is that this action is called from many different pages. How do
> I accomplish that?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deepa Khetan [mailto:deepa.khetan@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 7:38 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: returning user to the page they where on when they
> submitted the form?
> 
> in ur action mappings in struts-config.xml , u can specify the
> input="<tile-def-name>" and so whenevr u want the user to return to the
> input page, u can say mapping.getInput() anf forward the user to the
> page
> they were on when they submitted the form
>  HTH
> Deepa
> 
>  On 11/16/05, Mick Knutson <mi...@safeway.com> wrote:
> 
>>I have a tile component that I use many places in my app, and I want
> 
> to
> 
>>return the user back to the page they where on when they submitted the
>>component form.
>>
>>How can I do this?
>>
>>
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