From: Mark Probert <probertm@...>
Date: 2004-08-27T07:30:35+09:00
Subject: IOWA form question


I am trying to create an edit form based on text records.  The record 
format looks like, [label:group:comment].  For example:


  fred:Name:fred comment
  apple:Fruit:best crunchy
  bill:Name:bill comment
  john:Name:john comment
  banana:Fruit:best firm

I have a record struct

  RecStruct = Struct.new("RecStruct", :label, :group, :comment, :val)


So, I want the 'Add' form to look something like:

  Label        Group         Comment
  <text field> <option box>  <text field> 

Q1: How do I get the option group into the field?

My current version of this is:

        <table>
            <tr>
                <th>Label</th>
                <th>Group</th>
                <th>Comments</th>
            </tr>    
          <repeat oid="recList">
            <tr>
                <td><input type="text" oid="rec.label"></td>
                <td><select oid="grpList">
                      <option oid="selgrp">
                    </select>
                </td>
                <td><input type="text" oid="rec.comment"></td>
            </tr>
          </repeat>
        </table>

Though it won't really work because the "recList" oid is expecting a text 
value rather than a select list.


Q2: How do I extract the currently selected value and place it in the 
    record?

There will be one selected value per line.  Should they be in an array?

Thanks, once again.

-- 
-mark.  (probertm @ acm dot org)