Multi Step Forms

[Brian McGovern <bm...@imediainc.com>]

I have a situation where i need to have a multi screen form, lets say 3 steps.  On the successfull validation of the 3rd step.  I want to save the data into the DB.  This data would have been collected starting on step one, through step 3 and ecapsulated in 1 or more objects.

My question is whats the best way to do this from a design standpoint without using actionForms, thats not in option in my case.  Specifically is there a clean way to save a partially filled object from step 1 and pass it to step 2.  Basically the functionality like Server.Transer in .NET.  

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Re: Multi Step Forms

[Brandon Mercer <br...@eutonian.com>]

Brian McGovern wrote:

>I have a situation where i need to have a multi screen form, lets say 3 steps.  On the successfull validation of the 3rd step.  I want to save the data into the DB.  This data would have been collected starting on step one, through step 3 and ecapsulated in 1 or more objects.
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>My question is whats the best way to do this from a design standpoint without using actionForms, thats not in option in my case.  Specifically is there a clean way to save a partially filled object from step 1 and pass it to step 2.  Basically the functionality like Server.Transer in .NET.
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yes there is.  I've got a similar setup right now.  What I've done is
setup three Actions, one for each step, and I save information to a
temporary DB table.  This information could also be saved in the
session, or on each page.  Because of how I setup my DAO I actually have
an object per page ( this is much cleaner in the long run).  On the last
page the information is reviewed by the client and I have another action
that pulls the information out of wherever you put it, and stores it
into the "primary" table. 
Brandon

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