This form allows the user to choose which object to act on so it
doesn't naturally have a place in the URL space to sit that includes
a reference to the object. I want to come from the home page of the
object (which does have a component of the URL specifying it) to this
form but in that case preselect the correct object in the widget for
the user.

This becomes easier with my patch because I can just use
myobject._p_format_oid() when I render the home page instead of
duplicating the code that creates the hexadecimal version of the oid
that SelectWidget uses for keys.

Dave

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David K. Hess
Verscend Technologies, Inc.
dhess@verscend.com
214-684-5448



On Dec 4, 2006, at 8:41 AM, David Binger wrote:

>
> On Dec 4, 2006, at 8:06 AM, David K. Hess wrote:
>
>>
>> I have an "action" page with a form where I can act on an object
>> selected from a SingleSelectWidget. I also have a "home" page for
>> viewing one of those objects. On the "home" page, I have a form
>> with a HiddenWidget with the same name as the "action" page's
>> SingleSelectWidget with the key value for that object in it. Then
>> I post the form from the "home" page to the "action" page (such
>> that form.get_submit() == True) to preselect the correct object in
>> the SingleSelectWidget.
>>
>> I could name the HiddenWidget separately from the
>> SingleSelectWidget and do this default select by hand but this
>> seems to work well (though maybe a bit unorthodox).
>
> I'm not sure if I really understand what you are doing, but I
> guess our normal pattern for this would be to use a component of
> the URL, instead of a hidden value, to identify the particular
> instance.  (As far as I know, your way is fine.)
>
> I don't understand how your patch makes something easier.
>
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