Populating field in Container based on replicant added in 2 different containers

acezone

Hi All,

I have a situation where requirement is such that client requires dynamic population of field based on replicant added in 2 different container.

Let's elaborate this situation a bit:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding='UTF-8' standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE data-capture-requirements SYSTEM "datacapture6.0.dtd">
<data-capture-requirements type="content" name="portlet">
<ruleset name="portlet">
<root-container name="A" location="A">
<container name="ConA" location="ConA" min="1" max="5">
<label>Container A</label>
<item name="TextA" pathid="TextA">
<text required="t"/>
</item>
</container>


<container name="ConB" location="ConB" min="1" max="2">
<label>Container B</label>
<item name="TextB" pathid="TextB">
<text required="t"/>
</item>
</container>


<container name="ResultAB" location="ResultAB" min="1" max="10">

<!-- Max value for container "ResultAB" should populate dynamically based on each replicant added in ConA(5 replicants) and ConB(2 replicants) respectively (i.e.5x2=10 replicants) -->

<label>Container A</label>
<item name="ResultAText" pathid="ResultAText">
<text required="t"/>
</item>
<item name="ResultALink" pathid="ResultALink">
<browser required="t"/>
</item>
</container>


</root-container>
</ruleset>
</data-capture-requirements>

Any pointer or reference in achieving this functionality would be a great help.

Regards,
Ace

nipper

What's the problem ?

It is not trivial but it is fairly standard.

You will need a lot of FormAPI, onReplicantAdded & onReplicantDelete (check those events, typed from memory)

When a container is added, read the other set and dynamically add items to the third set. You can also be lazy and write a function that dumps replicant 3, reads 1 and 2 and then rebuild 3 from scratch. Then you just call it each time a replicant is added/removed.