Manually choose which attributes to edit

Thursday 29 July 2004 2:06:23 am

Hi!
Lets say I've made a class with 2 attributes: name (textline) and email (email). The email-attribute is required.
Now I want anonymous users to make new objects of this class. This is no problem when using code like

{include uri="design:content/edit_attribute.tpl"}

But how do I write the code if I only want the useres to fill in ONLY the email-attribute? In other words: I dont want them to be presented to a textline where they have to fill in their name.
I've tried to find the golden documentation page on how to make the form manually, but with no luck.

The html-output is something like

<input type="hidden" name="ContentObjectAttribute_id[]" value="785" />
<input class="" type="text" size="40"  name="ContentObjectAttribute_ezstring_data_text_785" value=""  />

and I think the name="..." is my problem. But how to make it dynamic?

Thanks!
Roy

Thursday 29 July 2004 5:52:30 am

Aaah! Thanks! Things are getting clearer.
But this means the user has to press some kind of Edit or New-button first. I would like to have the form present all the time, much like the search-form (even if my first post didn't tell). The intention is to make it easy for people to subscribe to a newsletter. But if my "clear" understanding is right I have to make a content/edit-call before I will be able to publish new objects, or..?

Roy

Thursday 29 July 2004 6:51:57 am

Thank you. I'll look into the tip-a-friend stuff soon. I've also made a module in order to send SMS, so I might just do some adjustments to make it create new objects. Wonder why I didnt think about doint it in php before. Well, I'll blame it on the fact that everybody else is on vacation and I still sit here :-)