Saving instances

I must be missing something... but can't we save an instance that has been imported with xi:include ???

I have a form, and the instance is loaded with the xi:include. I modify then a few things in my form. With the widget inspector, I see that everyting is modified correctly, i.e. the instance is updated.

I then want to store my instance

<xforms:instance id="profile-instance">
  <xi:include href="input:data"/>
</xforms:instance>

[...]

<xforms:submission id="save-submission" ref="instance('profile-instance')" method="post" action="/update" />

[...]

<xforms:trigger appearance="minimal">
  <xforms:label>
    <img src="/design/images/save.gif" alt="Save" />Save
  </xforms:label>
  <xforms:action ev:event="DOMActivate">
    <xforms:send submission="save-submission" />
  </xforms:action>
</xforms:trigger>

My trigger will not work. If I replace the instance (another instance but this time not imported, just hard written) that is specified in my submission, then the trigger will work. So my question again is : do I have to put an empty instance that is exactly the same as the one i'm imported, then in the trigger I set the values of the empty instance to the corresponding values in the imported instance, and then I can fire the trigger? Isn't there a better way ?

Good :-)

BTW, especially now that we fixed a related bug, we recommend using:

  <xforms:instance src="input:instance"/>

instead of using XInclude.

The reason is that better caching can take place this way.

-Erik

On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:05 AM, Stephane Ruchet wrote:

Sorry for the spam... after a little night of sleep I found out the problem. The trigger was not launched because an input that was required was empty. ;)


Stephane Ruchet a écrit :

I must be missing something... but can't we save an instance that has been imported with xi:include ???

I have a form, and the instance is loaded with the xi:include. I modify then a few things in my form. With the widget inspector, I see that everyting is modified correctly, i.e. the instance is updated.

I then want to store my instance

<xforms:instance id="profile-instance">
  <xi:include href="input:data"/>
</xforms:instance>

[...]

<xforms:submission id="save-submission" ref="instance('profile-instance')" method="post" action="/update" />

[...]

<xforms:trigger appearance="minimal">
  <xforms:label>
    <img src="/design/images/save.gif" alt="Save" />Save
  </xforms:label>
  <xforms:action ev:event="DOMActivate">
    <xforms:send submission="save-submission" />
  </xforms:action>
</xforms:trigger>

My trigger will not work. If I replace the instance (another instance but this time not imported, just hard written) that is specified in my submission, then the trigger will work. So my question again is : do I have to put an empty instance that is exactly the same as the one i'm imported, then in the trigger I set the values of the empty instance to the corresponding values in the imported instance, and then I can fire the trigger? Isn't there a better way ?

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Of course there is a reason, I just don't know which one ;-)

We use this daily so it does usually work. Do you get an error?

-Erik

On Dec 4, 2007, at 12:35 AM, Stephane Ruchet wrote:

Hi Erik,

Thanks for the info... but that line will not work. Any reason why?

Erik Bruchez a écrit :

Good :-)

BTW, especially now that we fixed a related bug, we recommend using:

  <xforms:instance src="input:instance"/>

instead of using XInclude.

The reason is that better caching can take place this way.

-Erik

On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:05 AM, Stephane Ruchet wrote:

Sorry for the spam... after a little night of sleep I found out the problem. The trigger was not launched because an input that was required was empty. ;)


Stephane Ruchet a écrit :

I must be missing something... but can't we save an instance that has been imported with xi:include ???

I have a form, and the instance is loaded with the xi:include. I modify then a few things in my form. With the widget inspector, I see that everyting is modified correctly, i.e. the instance is updated.

I then want to store my instance

<xforms:instance id="profile-instance">
  <xi:include href="input:data"/>
</xforms:instance>

[...]

<xforms:submission id="save-submission" ref="instance('profile-instance')" method="post" action="/update" />

[...]

<xforms:trigger appearance="minimal">
  <xforms:label>
    <img src="/design/images/save.gif" alt="Save" />Save
  </xforms:label>
  <xforms:action ev:event="DOMActivate">
    <xforms:send submission="save-submission" />
  </xforms:action>
</xforms:trigger>

My trigger will not work. If I replace the instance (another instance but this time not imported, just hard written) that is specified in my submission, then the trigger will work. So my question again is : do I have to put an empty instance that is exactly the same as the one i'm imported, then in the trigger I set the values of the empty instance to the corresponding values in the imported instance, and then I can fire the trigger? Isn't there a better way ?

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