Forms within Forms

[Mi-ul-vmijiI]

First the easy question - is this possible?

Secondly what approach should I take / any pointers?

I have a job sheet page that for each job has accept / refuse buttons (one form, 2 submit buttons)

Once the job has been accepted that cell in the table becomes an allocate box (dropdown list and submit button)

I want to be able to allocate all jobs (i.e. change each dropdown box as required, then hit one (?any?) submit button but presumably this will need the whole page in a single form and then good use of array notation. Is this possible or will it interfere with my accept / refuse buttons?

Many thanks
Michael

[Newsgroup_User]

On 2008-11-30 01:59:31 +0200, "Mi-ul" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> said:

> First the easy question - is this possible?

Not in HTML: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.3


> Secondly what approach should I take / any pointers?
>
> I have a job sheet page that for each job has accept / refuse buttons (one
> form, 2 submit buttons)
>
> Once the job has been accepted that cell in the table becomes an allocate box
> (dropdown list and submit button)
>
> I want to be able to allocate all jobs (i.e. change each dropdown box as
> required, then hit one (?any?) submit button but presumably this will need the
> whole page in a single form and then good use of array notation. Is this
> possible or will it interfere with my accept / refuse buttons?

There are multiple solutions in this case (list contains just pointers
and it's not exhaustive):
- use javascript to set a hidden field with the id of the job when
accept/refuse is clicked then submit the form. In the action page if
the hidden field has a value then it's accept/refuse id;
- use javascript on accept/refuse something like:
window.location.href='update_accept_status.cfm?status=accept/refuse';
- use ajax to send the status to the server, get the html with the
dropdown and submit button and replace the current html.

--
Mack

[Dan_Bracuk]

In addition to Mack's answer, you could use radio buttons instead of regular buttons for your accept/refuse choices. Then you could have a regular submit button at the end of the page.

[Mi-ul-vmijiI]

THanks for the pointers.

The accept/ refuse buttons need to be independant as they take the user off to a new screen to send replies etc.

I'm starting to consider having a separate view (there are already 3 or 4 others) for allocating jobs, or possibly looking into changing the accept / refuse buttons into buttons rather than submit buttons within a form