Rich and Lea98 wrote:

Hi,

Can anyone give me ideas on solving the following problem...

Im trying to pass information in a form using :records. One item in each record is a list I wish to pass as a list and use <dtml-in bob> to display the list contents.

I have tried all sorts of variations...

<input type="hidden" name="my_record.bob:records:list" value="<dtml-in bob><dtml-var sequence-item></dtml-in>">

and...

<input type="hidden" name="my_record.bob:list:records" value="<dtml-in bob><dtml-var sequence-item></dtml-in>">

Anything I try just places the whole of "bob" as one item in a list. eg if bob was ['this ','is ','bob']. The list in the record passed using the form would be ['this is bob'].

Thanks for any ideas in advance.

Richard

If you want to pass lists in text boxes, use the tokens marshaling and the string.join function on the list like so: <input type="hidden" name="my_record.bob:records:tokens" value="<dtml-var expr="_.string.join(bob)" html_quote>"> Tokens will create a list from each word in a string. So a caveat is that you cannot have spaces in a list item. To get around this you might try (untested): <dtml-in bob> <input type="hidden" name="my_records.bob:list:records" value="&dtml-sequence-item;"> </dtml-in> I don't know if combining list and records will work in this context however. -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan@kaivo.com `------------------>