Thanks Norman for your ideas. I will explore them and see what makes the most sense in my case. I was hoping that there would be something in Tapestry that I could utilize to make it easier, but I guess not.
Regards, Benny On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Norman Franke <nor...@myasd.com> wrote: > You could use JavaScript to hide the form and use AJAX to put something > else there. Or create a new absolutely positioned DIV that covers the entire > contents of the form and use AJAX to do whatever. A sort of easy way is to > put all your content in a single DIV and just hide that and have another DIV > that you can then show, with optional AJAX update. > > Along these lines, I've used the ModalBox dialog library to display a > dialog where the user can lookup stuff and hide it when they select whatever > they want. When they click on the desired item, I auto fill that into the > desired field on the original form. > > Otherwise, I'd serialize the form values into a large hidden text field in > a separate, but hidden form, and submit that. Store that in the session. > Then restore later. Google for a prototype-compatible Form deserialization > routing, I recall needing one a while go and found one. > > Norman Franke > Answering Service for Directors, Inc. > www.myasd.com > > > > > On Jan 15, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Benny Law wrote: > > I am developing a mobile application with Tapestry 5. Sometimes, when >> entering data on a form, I need to display another page (some kind of >> look-up) where the user can eventually select some value that needs to be >> brought back to the original form. For desktop web applications, I could >> implement the look-up page with an iframe so that the user doesn't need to >> leave the original form. Now, with the mobile application where I can't >> use >> iframe, I need some way to suspend the form, saving the state of the form >> as >> is without validating anything. Upon returning from the look-up page, I >> need >> to restore the form to the state it was in when the user opened the >> look-up >> page. What is the best way to do this in Tapestry? >> >> Benny >> > >
