DOC-Element:form

Contents 1 Description 2 Attributes 3 Child Elements 4 Parent Elements 5 Hints

Description

one of the most important elements. if it is a child of a <grid> than it is used as a search form, otherwise it is used as a data entry form.

Attributes

• method : set the form method to POST or GET
• type : should be set to "gridform" when this form is part of a grid
• name : name of the form to submit which is most times a name of a PlexXML-Webrequest
• disabled : true to display the form disabled ( used when displaying confirm Dialog Boxes)
• enctype : used for File Upload Forms , e.g. "enctype=multipart/form-data"
• onsubmit : overrides the default submit action
• target : display the result in another window
• targetWidth : in conjunction with @target to set the window width
• targetHeight : in conjunction with @target to set the window height
• ajaxForm : defaults to true , can be overridden here ( Uploads are never Ajax-Forms)

Child Elements

TODO ...

Parent Elements

• <detail>
• <grid>

Hints

• TODO check why we do not allow Ajax for Uploads
• TODO check why we neet the 'type="gridform"' attribute within grids