Anna, What I would do is start with an action (lets call it PopulateCreateAction) that gets the collection from the DB, creates a new ActionForm and populates that action form with the collections. I would place that in the request scope and then do a standard action forward to the create.jsp.
You should then come into create.jsp with the form prefilled and everything works normally from there. :) Al -----Original Message----- From: Anna Kerekes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 3:58 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: input form Hello, I have a jsp (create.jsp), a form-bean (CreateMessageForm.java), and an action (CreateMessageAction.java). Currently, the user inputs their info into create.jsp, hits 'submit', and the action gets the info from the form-bean and does stuff with it. Instead, I would like to get some information( collections) from a database and populate "create.jsp" with them. So I would like to: - get a collection from the database - put this collection into the request - populate create.jsp from the request object - let the user edit the form (including the pre-populated parts) - hit submit - CreateMessageAction gets info from form-bean and does stuff... Do I have to write a separate Action class for putting the collection (from database) into the request object? Or can I somehow incorporate this into my current CreateMessageAction class ? please help, Anna Kerekes --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
