attribute_view_gui default value

Monday 16 June 2008 8:11:33 pm

Hi!

Is there a way to inform the default value for an attribute when using attribute_view_gui() function?

I'm using this function to show a class attribute:

{attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.data_map.email}

And would like to to fill the default value for this attribute (e.g. HTML VALUE attribute for INPUT element).

I tried something like this:

{attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.data_map.email value='myemail@server.com'}

But it didn't work.

Any ideas?

Thank you
Michael

Thursday 17 July 2008 8:03:57 am

Hi Michael,
I wonder how your solution could possibly work, if you have more than one occurrence of a data type?
I think a better solution is to have a look at the collect templates which attribute_view_gui uses in forms and learn from the html there.

If

{attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.object.data_map.your_attribute size='30'}

produces the correct input field for an attribute, the following code works to implement a default value :

<input class="box" type="text" size="30" name="ContentObjectAttribute_ezstring_data_text_{$node.object.data_map.your_attribute.id}"  	value="{$my_default_value}" />

Thereby it is also possible to pass the default value to a hidden field off course:

<input type="hidden" name="ContentObjectAttribute_ezstring_data_text_{$node.object.data_map.your_attribute.id}"  	value="{$my_default_value}" />

This worked perfectly for me and it should be easy to transfer this solution to other datatypes.

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