[Catalyst] Question about workflow to handle multiple 'submit' buttons on one form

[will trillich]

Dang, this is really quite spiffy. Thanks for the idea!


On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Francisco Obispo <fobispo at isc.org> wrote:

> Well, what I would do, is keep the underlying 'save' and 'close' methods =
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> sub save : Private {
>  my ($self,$c)=3D at _;
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>  # your save code goes here
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> }
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> sub close : Private {
>  my ($self,$c)=3D at _;
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>  # your close code goes here
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> }
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> That way you could have:
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> sub action : Local {
>  my ($self,$c)=3D at _;
>  $c->forward('save');
>  $c->forward('close') if $c->request->param("close"); # or something
> }
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> On Feb 7, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Len Jaffe wrote:
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> > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:41 AM, will trillich <
> will.trillich at serensoft.com> wrote:
> > Catalystry:
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> > So there's a second page where they fill out some finalization options
> (with the original data in hidden fields) and there they have a final
> "submit" button for the purpose. And they should be able to use their
> browser's "back" button to get back to the edit form.
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> > The problem we're wrestling with is that the "edit" action should have a
> URL distinct from the close action so that the user can hit the "back"
> button if need be.
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> > /item/# <=3D view item
> > /item/#/edit <=3D edit form
> > /item/#/close <=3D confirm-close form
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> > Nah. I wouldn't have two URLs.  I'd have one URL, and determine whether
> to save or save+close based on the value of the submit button.
> > Furthernore, after a successful submit (assuming http POST) I'd redirect
> the user to a new display page via GET so that they can hit the refresh
> button all the like without attempting to repost the submission.
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> > Len.
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