Re: Proposal for adding an alternate-target element to the form's widget submit element

[Bruno Busco <br...@gmail.com>]

+1
it should be possible to set the export alt-target in a base form and
have it consistently in all extended ones.
I think this will be possible with all of the suggested solutions.

-Bruno

2009/7/1 BJ Freeman <bj...@free-man.net>:
> how about making A content that can be used to list the type of exports.
> this would open the exports based on dataresources.
> Just a thought.
>
> Jacopo Cappellato sent the following on 6/30/2009 2:54 PM:
>> I would like to make it easier to get different type of exports (pdf,
>> csv etc...) for the same search form widget. Right now we can add
>> 'export' links to the screen, but it is tricky to keep the search
>> parameters when you click on them.
>>
>> What about adding an "alternate-target" attribute to the "submit"
>> element? This will be used to specify an alternate target for the form
>> (behind the lines it will use Javascript to change the form's target)
>> For example:
>>
>>  <form name="FindOrders" type="single" target="SearchOrdersScreen">
>>     ... (search parameters)
>>     <field name="submitButton" title="Search"><submit
>> button-type="button"/></field>
>>     <field name="submitButtonPdf" title="Export (PDF)"><submit
>> button-type="button" alt-target="SearchOrdersScreenPdf"/></field>
>>     <field name="submitButtonCsv" title="Export (CSV)"><submit
>> button-type="button" alt-target="SearchOrdersScreenCsv/></field>
>> </form>
>>
>> It will render three buttons, one for the standard html screen, one for
>> PDF version and one for csv exports.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Jacopo
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