Hi All,
I have posted the below to Netbean forums and Chris Kutler has suggested
me to post our conversation to the Woodstock community.
First Question was
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I had a question regarding the usage of tabset
for managing record with a large set of information. I would like to use
the tabset to solve the problem and can you let me know if it is an
appropriate way to use the tabset. An example of what I would like to do
is
Main form
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Employee Id
Employee status
Etc a the top
Tab set
underneath above attributes
(part of the form)
Tab 1
-------
Employee details
such as name, age, sex etc
Tab 2
-------
Employee address
details
Tab 3
--------
Table with list
of past job history
Tab 4, Tab 5
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Others,
Underneath the tab set, I will have command
buttons. Save, Cancel, etc.
You got my point!!!
It would be nice way of managing the user
interface with tabs as information is logically group together.
Additionally, I would like to set required and other validation checks
etc on attributes on all tab sets. The run time behaviour I am expecting
is
- User should be able to jump from one tab to
another without going through validation cycle.
- When user 'save' the record by pressing the
Save button, all validations would be enforced regardless of whether
they are on active tab or not.
The problem I am facing is unless fields are on
the active tab set, they are not going through the validation cycle. I
am not sure I did something wrong or don't know what I need to do. Is
there a way to design the above layout and set up validations? Another
problem is, when I switch from one tab to another, the active (source)
tab is going through the validation process. I don't want that as
validation should be triggered only by Save button action.
What's your thoughts on this? I have done
research on tutorials, blog, etc. However, tabsets were not mentioned to
manage for this kind of situation. I could use third party
javascript/css tabs to organise it.
But I would like to use the VWP tabset/tabs. I
stumble into an example in Apache myFaces. Example is
http://www.irian.at/myfaces/tabbedPane.jsf
(client side tab switching). Is that similar to
what I can do with VWP component? Appreciated your reply.
My follow up was (work around)
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I found some kind of way around this using third party
java script. I
thought you might be interested. Here is step by step
what I have done
- Download tab pane components from WebFX into project
directory\download.
http://webfx.eae.net/
- copy tab.css, tab.webfx.css and tab.winclassic.css to
web\stylesheets
directory.
- copy tabpane.js to web\stylesheets directory.
- copy luna directory to web\stylesheets directory.
- drop a script and link components under advanced in
palette to the
page.
- set the url property of link to
/stylesheets/tab.webfx.css.
- set the url property of script to
/stylesheets/tabpane.js.
- add
<div class="tab-pane" id="tab-pane-1">
<div class="tab-page">
<h2 class="tab">General</h2>
...... here is the components
under tab 1
</div>
<div class="tab-page">
<h2 class="tab">Privacy</h2>
...... here is the components
under tab 2
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
setupAllTabs();
</script>
Now components are organised through tab. All
validations are working as
I would like to.
Hopefully, in the future, Woodstock would incorporate
this.
Regards,
Win Pe
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