Johan, You are seeing the component repeated 20 times because those instructions are for creating a 'property level component'.
Hense the propertyKey being important. Without it, the component is used for every property on your entity. It looks like you want to create a page level component. In that case look at some of the existing page level components in wonder. On 2010-12-16, at 3:04 PM, Johan Henselmans wrote: > > Here's the idea: > > I have a custom component page from somewhere else with javascript that does > a whole bunch of calculations based on values of an EO. > > No problem, I thought, according to the D2W Rules References I follow rule 7: > > (http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/D2W+Rules+Reference+-+Cookbook+-+FAQ) > > 7. How do I easily use my own custom component in a Direct to Web page? > > Step 1: > > Add the following rules to your rule file: > > 100: pageConfiguration = "ListTheEntity" and propertyKey = "theProperty" => > componentName = "D2WCustomComponent" > 100: pageConfiguration = "ListTheEntity" and propertyKey = "theProperty" => > customComponentName = "MyThePropertyComponent" > > > Step 2: > > Create a component in your project named 'MyThePropertyComponent' and give it > an 'object' and 'key' binding. The object will receive the current object, > and the key will receive the current propertyKey (as a string) from > DirectToWeb. Do with them what you will. > > public > EOEnterpriseObject object() { > > return (EOEnterpriseObject) valueForBinding("object" > ); > } > > > public String > key() { > > return (String) valueForBinding("key" > ); > } > > > So I add these methods, but removed this propertyKey thingy because I want my > the entity to be used as the object. > > Im my situatiion: > > 100: pageConfiguration = "InspectTheEntity" => componentName = > "D2WCustomComponent" > 100: pageConfiguration = "InspectTheEntity" => customComponentName = > "MyNiceJavascriptAndAllPage" > > first I had to add some extra methods to this page, because WebObjects > complained it could not set object and key values, so I added: > > public void setObject(EOEnterpriseObject anObject) { > currentObject = anObject; > } > > public void setKey(String aKey) { > currentkey = aKey; > } > > But then it displayed the page. > > 20 times. > > I get a display of my custom page for all the components in the page. So > component 1 displays a complete empty page, component 2 etc. None of my > EOEnterprise values are displayed from the EOObject that I selected. > > I must be missing something. I understood that the object would pass through > the current select enterprise object, and I could use that to fill in the > values in my custom page. Apparently, that is not the case. I tried to find > some customcomponent in the d2wmodels of BugTracker or ERMoviesDemo, but did > not find anything over there. > > Can someone enlighten me? > > Johan Henselmans > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/dleber_wodev%40codeferous.com > > This email sent to [email protected] ;david -- David LeBer Codeferous Software 'co-def-er-ous' adj. Literally 'code-bearing' site: http://codeferous.com blog: http://davidleber.net profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidleber twitter: http://twitter.com/rebeld -- Toronto Area Cocoa / WebObjects developers group: http://tacow.org _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
