I know. They were just regular good practice suggestions. Sorry. Will
look for a solution.
On Aug 4, 6:44 pm, G <glenn.calt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Massimo,
> Thank you for the suggestions. I have implemented both, but neither
> helps with the original problem of having components with multiple
> buttons work with ajax=True. My new controller generates several forms
> each with just one button and with distinct formnames. It has an if
> form.accepts clause for each form to do the required action, and then
> returns all the forms to the view to be properly formatted. It seems a
> bit clumsy, but also seems to be working.
> Thanks again,
> G
>
> On Aug 4, 4:36 pm, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > if you do not need a view and your component only displays the form
> > you can just "return form" and pypass the generic view. It will be
> > faster. I also suggest you use ajax=True. Always call the component
> > directly as a test that it is working.
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> > On Aug 4, 6:33 pm, G <glenn.calt...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > I think I found a workable (but slightly annoying) solution: create
> > > several mini-forms that only have the submit button, each with a
> > > different form name. Then I can just use many
> > > if form_blah.accepts(request.vars, session, formname='form_blah'):
> > > clauses. I'd still be interested in knowing if there is a better way.
> > > Another idea I toyed with was using jQuery to connect the .click
> > > action of a button to cause a jQuery.post(URL('myfunction'),
> > > {button_name : "yes"}) to send the button press to myfunction, but I'm
> > > new to jQuery, so didn't put much time into trying it and don't know
> > > if it would work.
> > > Thanks,
> > > G
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> > > On Aug 4, 2:23 am, pbreit <pbreitenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > Coupla other
> > > > approaches:http://www.johnnycode.com/blog/2010/04/08/jquery-form-serialize-doesn......
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> > > > I'm surprised Jquery doesn't provide better support for this. Seems
> > > > like a
> > > > common pattern.
