Erik Myllymaki writes:
A users starts with a blank form.
She fills in some field values, slects some values form pull-downs.
Submits the form which adds a new record into a database.
Later, the user wants to update that infomation (or input a NEW record but use that info as a template).
What is the cleanest way to pull up that form with the fields already containing the data from that database record?
Is there a product that is close to this? Formulator? I think, "Formulator" will help you.
It's not difficult, too, in plain coding provided there are no name conflicts: <input ... value="&dtml.missing-column_name;"> This requires that the template is used within a <dtml-with "the_object"> for an update and without it for the initial insert. In ZPT, it will look like <input ... tal:attributes="value obj/column_name | nothing"> where "obj" is defined for update and not defined for initial insert. Dieter