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dfire input fields repeater
I have a related list for student (master-detail) of educational institutions the student has previously attended.
Since this list will vary for student to student, I would like to create some sort of repeater that will create a new line of fields that will be entered as new record in the related list.
The examples I saw using <apex:repeat> seem to just be to display a list of fields for one record, but not a repetition of the same fields for multiple records.
So, anybody know how I can do this?
thanks.
So you'd still use a repeat and it would run over empty object variables e.g.
1. A button called "Add Info" on the page that would call a method "Add()" and reRender the <apex:repeat> component (wrap the repeat in an outputPanel and rerender that for best results).
2. The Add() method would do something like:
public PageReference add(){
Record__c r = new Record__c();
records.add(r);
return null;
}
3. The records variable would be a publicly accessbile list of the same record type e.g.
public List<Record__c> records{get;set;} // initialise this in the controller constructor to avoid errors records = new List<Record__c>();
4. The repeat would then run over the "records" which wouldn't yet be written to the database but would be storing information for later.
5. A "save" button that does calls an action method that does something like "insert records;"
Understand?
Wes
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Hey,
A repeat does exactly what you'd like to do. It iterates over a list of records (or classes) and displays the fields value for each record. You might also want to look at <apex:pageblocktable> and <apex:datatable> since they do a similar thing but format the output into neat tables.
If you click this link: http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/pages/index_Left.htm#StartTopic=Content%2Fpages_compref.htm|SkinName=webhelp
And look for "Standard Component Reference" on the left-hand pane you'll find the documentation and examples for each.
Wes
I looked at the reference. But all the examples with <apex:repeat> seem to be where you want to iterate over existing records. I want to create new records.
For example, I want the user to submit a list of there past education where each school he attended would be a new record.
So line 1 would be: [NAME OF SCHOOL] [START DATE] [END DATE] [GRADUATED] [MAJOR/MINOR]
line 2 would be the next school: [NAME OF SCHOOL] [START DATE] [END DATE] [GRADUATED] [MAJOR/MINOR]
line 3: [NAME OF SCHOOL] [START DATE] [END DATE] [GRADUATED] [MAJOR/MINOR]
and so on...
There would be 1 or a few lines showing initially and an option to add more. Obviously we only want to save records with information in them.
Does this make sense?
So you'd still use a repeat and it would run over empty object variables e.g.
1. A button called "Add Info" on the page that would call a method "Add()" and reRender the <apex:repeat> component (wrap the repeat in an outputPanel and rerender that for best results).
2. The Add() method would do something like:
public PageReference add(){
Record__c r = new Record__c();
records.add(r);
return null;
}
3. The records variable would be a publicly accessbile list of the same record type e.g.
public List<Record__c> records{get;set;} // initialise this in the controller constructor to avoid errors records = new List<Record__c>();
4. The repeat would then run over the "records" which wouldn't yet be written to the database but would be storing information for later.
5. A "save" button that does calls an action method that does something like "insert records;"
Understand?
Wes