Could be used to fill hidden Fields from input fields and optionally submit a form.

This Element is especially useful within search grids with combo boxes or fields in the toolbar because the toolbar is outside the grid form.

Contents 1 Hints 2 Properties 2.1 generateAction 2.2 event 2.2.1 Attributes 2.3 fill 2.3.1 Attributes 2.4 form 2.4.1 Attributes 2.5 script 3 Example 3.1 Observe the submit event of a grid form + debug script 3.2 Combo box in a toolbar

Hints

• a change event on a date field doesn't work on some browser versions because the onKeyPress stops to propagate an onChange event
• you could observe the submit of a form with <event name="{$vForm}:submit" element="{$vForm}"/> if it is a aaform.form

Properties

generateAction

event

Attributes

name: Event name: change, click, blur...

element: ID of the element that is observed (optional)

elementName: implementation name of the element that is observed (element id could be generated from name)

fill

Attributes

from: name of the source field (optional)

fromid: id of the source field (optional)

fromform: form of the source field (optional)

fromvalue: fixed value for the traget field (optional)

to: ID of the target field that should be filled

form

Attributes

name: name of the target form

submit: submit form true|false

script

Could be used to put some additional jscript on the end of the function. In the example below a debug message for FireBug is generated.

<script>console.log('Hi Dude, your code is ok!');</script>

Example

Observe the submit event of a grid form + debug script

<xsl:template name="otherHiddenFields">
 <generateAction>
  <event name="{$vForm}:submit" element="{$vForm}"/>
   <fill fromid="FooFromID" to="FooToID"/>
   <form name="{$vForm}" submit="false"/>
   <script>console.log('Hi Dude, your code is ok!');</script>
  </generateAction>
</xsl:template>  

Combo box in a toolbar

• Use search fields in the toolbar

<button type="otherTemplate" alt="{@label}">
 <field hid="{@name}">
  <xsl:copy-of select="@label | @shape | @name"/>
  <xsl:value-of select="@value"/>
  <xsl:for-each select="selectvalue">
   <selectvalue>
    <xsl:copy-of select="@name | @value | @selected"/>
   </selectvalue>
  </xsl:for-each>
  <generateAction>
   <event name="change" element="{@name}" /><!-- Change-Event for the field -->
   <fill from="{@name}" to="anotherFieldID" /><!-- fill anotherField with current Value from this field -->
   <fill from="scndFieldID" to="thirdFieldID" /><!-- fill thirdField with current Value from a scndField -->
   <form name="{$vForm}" submit="true" /><!-- do a submit of the specified form -->
  </generateAction>
 </field>
 <xsl:copy-of select="attribute"/>
</button>