[pmwiki-users] fun with forms

Kathryn Andersen kat_lists at katspace.homelinux.org
Thu Apr 19 18:49:12 CDT 2007


On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:23:47PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 04:02:43PM -0700, Martin Fick wrote:
> > -Add Summary field to page if it doesn't already exist
> >   (:input text +location$:Summary :)
> > -Delete Date field from page if it is left blank
> >   (:input text -$:Date :)
> > -Add Changes field to page if it doesn't already exist
> > or delete if it already exists and it is left blank
> >   (:input text +location-$:Changes :)
> 
> Very useful ideas.  I like +$:Summary -- the rest are going
> to take some time to grow on me (and I'd need to be convinced
> of the need for deleting fields).

I for one would NOT want fields to be deleted.  If I have something
standardized enough that I'm wanting to use a form to update it,
then I'm going to have standard fields, and I'd rather, therefore, that
they explicitly have no value e.g. (:Date::) than suddenly vanish.

Kathryn Andersen
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