[ZPT] Looking for an answer to Sharing a form for both editing and adding (formulator)

[Charlie Clark]

On 2003-07-21 at 15:23:47 [+0200], Exteam wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I am looking for a solution to the problem of using both editing and 
> adding using formulator. Ran into the following page, on the web, which 
> asks the same question so well, that I am just quoting it here. 
> 
> U can find it in the following link:

Pradash, please stop sending HTML-mail to this list and please use a real 
name.

This is a formulator question, it seems. Maybe you should join the 
formulator list.

But the point Skip raises is also a general one. I use METAL-macros to do 
exactly this.

<form metal:define="add_edit" action="local_method" method="POST" 
tal:define="my_name request/my_name | nothing">
<input type=text name="my_name" tal:attributes="content value my_name">
</form>

The trick is in using dummy values when the form is called for a new entry.

Charlie