I have an address search area on my form in my asp.net mvc3 application. the whole form is submitted using the main submit button and the address search is initiated using the search button.
When the user submits the form using the search button only the house number and postcode fields need to be validated. When the user submits the whole form the whole form needs to be validated.
How is this achieved using fluentvalidation?
This is not an ideal situation in MVC design but still you can achieve this buy submitting form on search button click by jQuery. Use separate identifier to specify whether it was submitted by search button or main button by passing additional parameter through jQuery either in model itself or querystring. Once you have that identifier on serverside, you can use custom fluentValidation to validate model with that if..else condition. You can use .ajax as well if that fits in your design.
Hope this helps.
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I am working on a Grails project, its an accounting project. We have multiple clients and they can have multiple types of accounts. I have to create the 'create' page for client, there should be a way to add multiple types of account to the client.
So I was thinking of making a drop-down list with account types and few text boxes to enter account name and other info about account. Also, as a client can have multiple accounts, so I want to create a 'add' button, when clicked it would display a new row to add a new client. I have done this kind of UI before using javascript but in this case, as there is a drop-down list and other components, I think it would be very hard and may not work.
I was thinking of creating a partial view which would render each time user clicked the 'add' button with additional row, problem with this would be during validation errors, edit page and i would also have to pass all values each time user clicks 'add' button.
Is there any other for doing this?
For the template approach you must use ajax if you don't want to carry on the params that the user has already set.
It is possible to make new drop-down lists appear (or any group of elements inside a <div>) when a user clicks a button, since Grails already comes with jQuery you might want to take a look at the .clone() method.
The problem with the two listed approeaches is that it will be possible to have duplicates.
Now, another option is to use checkboxes, so you can check just the type of account you want.
But to be honest it does seems a bit odd or even inapropiate to let the user choose the type of account he wants with such freedom.
I want the html.checkbox() in ASP.NET MVC to be as a link that goes to an action controller (GET and not POST).
Question:
It is possible to make the html.checkbox() to act as a "actionlink" instead of going to the FormCollection without using Javascript and JQuery or any additional plugin?
This wouldn't be possible in any framework as checkboxes are just static input elements. They have no ability to trigger any sort of action on their own, hence where javascript and event handlers comes in.
You could try making a form who's method is GET, but it would still have to go somewhere.. I guess you could make an action that handles various states of a checkbox and then routes to the correct page, however you'd still need to submit this form by having the user click a submit (again because the only way to trigger an action from clicking a checkbox is by using javascript)
You could also fake a checkbox using css and checkbox-like images.
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If you need to show it as either checked or unchecked, you would use two classes with two different checkbox-like images.
I doubt this is possible without javascript.
Except for buttons and links, no controls actually do anything but change their own value in the DOM.
It would however be rather trivial to add an onclick to your checkbox that would do whatever (including a GET request).
I'm building a web application that has a particular model representing some events. Users need to be able to add N number of people to a given event. Choosing people is handled by a partial view.
I'm trying to build a menu that displays when users click "add a person" to the event. Because the event hasn't been filled out completely yet, there is nothing in the database to persist between requests.
I also have validation logic on the event page.
My proposed solution is to add the form to search or add for people on the event form itself and have a submit button that sends the values that have been added back to the server, where I can store them in ViewData or Session.
Unfortunately, doing this flags the validation.
My second solution is to load a partial view responsible for loading the UI to add/search for a person. I could add a little code on the method in the controller that returns a partial view storing the existing data in a session variable or viewdata. Trouble is, I have to submit the form to do it--again tripping the validation!!!
I'm wondering if perhaps I chose the wrong tool to do this...because in webforms, there would probably be a postback and you would just perform an operation on that postback. I'd like to avoid rewriting the application in webforms and am wondering if there are ways I'm overlooking in ASP.NET MVC.
Thanks in advance for the ideas!
I would probably have the partial view send it's data to the main page (with javascript). That way there is only one post to the server and it is when all of the data the user needs to enter has been filled out. How are you displaying the partial view? Is it on the main page (in a div), or is it a separate pop-up window? Either way, you should be able to use javascript to store this data on the main page and post all of the data back at one time.
HTH
I have a view with two forms. A main form to create a new contact and another form to add a new folder (for organization).
Is it possible to get params for both forms to be set when one of the forms is submitted? Say, if a new folder is created I'd like to return to the view with any filled out contact information still there (or the other way around if the main form has errors).
Thanks!
It's a basic constraint of HTTP that a form submission only includes the values for the submitted form (which is, of course, a feature, not a bug).
Options to actually deal with your need:
If the two forms go to the same place, you could of course simply make them one big form; they can look like two forms visually without being two forms within the page
You could use javascript to populate one form with hidden fields representing the values in the other form. These could be updated either whenever the values change, or just before the actual submission takes place
Or (and this is what you should do, in my opinion) you could make both forms submit via AJAX rather then submitting the full page. That way, the form that hasn't been submitted won't change anyway, and there won't be any need to restore the values.
I'm working with Ruby on rails 2.3.4 and I'd like to pass some parameters from one page to another ones the first one is submitted.
For example:
On the first page, I have a form that when it's filled a Preview button can be clicked to check all the info entered before submitting the form. That button redirects to another page with the info entered before, but I don't know how to get it in the second page.
There are two possible solutions:
You can emulate the stepped form filling by creating a record in first form and saving it with status "unverified" or "pending". This way you won't have to deal with hidden form fields in 2nd and 3rd pages. All you'll need to pass is the id of pending record. You'll just need to update record status to "active" once the data is confirmed.
Use client side paginated from (all popular JS frameworks have plugins for this). Hence you will only display different <div>s in single loaded page (something like an interface for a setup wizard).