Grasshopper! The solution is in plain site in the userGuide for the HTML Taglib.
Use the name="someBeanName" attribute available to many html:taglib fields. Hopefully, you are using a version of Struts which is recent enough to support that attribute (should be supported in 1.0, definitely in 1.1 and up). In my test, one of the JSP's used the html:form tag with an action. A JSP INSERTED into that tile had 2 lines: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] uri="struts-html" prefix="html" %> <html:text name="ActionFormTest" property="hair" /> <!-- I'm bald, understand the Hair reference? --> All attributes from all beans (I put them all in scope at each previous setup Action) showed up in the correct parts of the correct tile pieces. If you need to start changing the form's submit action depending on which button in which tile was touched, email me off-list (i.e. directly) and I'll show you how to use document.getElementById(...) in JavaScript to change the form's submit location/path/action/URL. Regards, David "Try that Tile question out!" Friedman -----Original Message----- From: Graeme Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tiles and Forms What is the correct pattern for placing a struts html:form tag in a layout where - the controls may be in a different location (and hence different tiles) from the buttons that submit the form - where you want the action the form submits to to be customisable by whatever jsp uses this form? If anyone could give a simple example of using this pattern I would appreciate it. For example here's a simplification of what I am currently trying Simple Layout <%@ page language="java"%> <%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-html"; prefix="html"%> <%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-tiles"; prefix="tiles"%> <%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-bean"; prefix="bean"%> <html:html locale="true"> <head> <title><tiles:getAsString name="title"/></title> </head> <body> <bean:define id="formAction" type="java.lang.String"><tiles:getAsString name="formAction"/></bean:define> <html:form action="<%= formAction %>"> <tiles:insert attribute="body"/> <tiles:insert attribute="buttons"/> </html:form> </body> </html:html> Simple Use of the above layout (using the body wrap pattern for ease of readability) <%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-tiles"; prefix="tiles"%> <%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-html"; prefix="html"%> <tiles:insert page="simple-layout.jsp" flush="true"> <tiles:put name="title" value="Hello World" /> <tiles:put name="formAction" value="/SomeAction.do" /> <tiles:put name="body" type="string"><html:checkbox property="delete"></tiles:put> <tiles:put name="buttons" type="string"><html:submit property="command">Save</html:submit></tiles:put> </tiles:insert> Unfortunately while the form action gets correctly rendered with the right action passed from the jsp that uses the layout, the checkbox rendering fails with the message "Cannot find bean org.apache.struts.taglib.html.BEAN in any scope". As far as I understand this means the html form tag is not being put in scope for the checkbox to find. Any wise words appreciated. Graeme --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
