Question

Maybe it's just a newbie question, but it's really driving me crazy.

I need to get the content of some formfields to create a new topic with its name based on them. Just like this:

I've tried with

%FORMFIELD{"ProjectName" topic="WEB.TOPIC" alttext="Field doesnt found"}%

but it always displays alternative text, so it doesn't seems to find that field.

What should I do?

Environment

-- RaquelAlegre - 25 May 2007

Answer

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FORMFIELD refers to TWikiForms not to HTML forms.

If you want to construct one form field from another, the only option I know of is to use javascript. You could also have an intermediary creator page that can do the text manipulations and present a new form with the appropriate field.

-- JustinLove - 25 May 2007

I believe this should work. Here's a slight variation on your form demonstrating use of formfield to populate field:

-- LynnwoodBrown - 25 May 2007

Thank you both I've tried using javascript and it worked. It's quite simple! I've included a javascript function

function canSubmit(inForm)

which is called from the "onSubmit" parameter in the HTML form. I've defined some variables to get the content from the fields:

var inputProjectName = inForm.ProjectName.value; ...

and the i've defined the action here, with the javascript code, better than with de action parameter from the HTML form. This way, I can mix the variables from javascript and twiki:

inForm.action="%SCRIPTURLPATH{edit}%/%BASEWEB%/"+inputProjectName + "%GMTIME{$mo$day$year$hour$min$sec}";

This function is called when pressing the "submit" button and redirects the user to the edit view of a new topic with a name like this

ProjectName05302007081843

-- RaquelAlegre - 30 May 2007

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