On Tuesday, 13 March 2007 07:54 am, Al Maw escreveu:
> Thomas R. Corbin wrote:
> > or do you need to have each tab have it's own form?
> >
> > And if each tab has it's own form, does the user need to save their data
> > before switching tabs?
> >
> > Would the submit button be on each form, on each tab, or outside the tabs
> > entirely?
>
> You can do this however you want.
>
> If you want a single form, I'd put the submit button outside the tabs to
> make it more obvious that you can skip between them before hitting
> submit. You'd then need to modify your tabs so that the link to each tab
> is a SubmitLinks, with setDefaultFormProcessing(false) to avoid
> validating the entire form as you click between the links.
>
> Alternatively, you can just put a form on each tab and have a submit
> button inside each form. The tabs/forms will be independent of each
> other in this case (although I guess you could link them together like a
> wizard if you wanted to, the point is that each tab has a form and an
> onSubmit method and is effectively standalone).
>
> This is more a question about UI design than anything else - Wicket
> doesn't force you to do things like this in any particular way. Is it
> obvious to your users how a multi-tabbed form works? People aren't used
> to that kind of way of doing things.
>
> If your form is too big to fit on a single screen, you might like to
> consider other ways of doing things. If you're creating stuff, having a
> wizard is probably better. If you're editing an existing entity, putting
> the save buttons inside the tabs is almost certainly more intuitive. You
> could also investigate something like Mootool's accordion
> (http://docs.mootools.net/files/Plugins/Accordion-js.html).
>
>
> Al
Thanks so much for your advice. I'll be looking into it now.
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