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Chad Crowell

Posted: 01 April 2008 10:44 AM

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Hey Mitchell-

I have an SAEF edit form with form helper.

The form is working fine, but for the edit form, using your recommended hidden fields, the category is not getting populated even when the original post has a category assigned.

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="companies" disable="category_fields|member_data|pagination|trackbacks" rdf="off" author_id="CURRENT_USER" limit="1" category="9"}

     {if no_results}  
      <!-- Show the entry form -->
      
       {Company Profile Entry}
     
       {exp:weblog:entry_form weblog="companies" return="account" use_live_url="no" category="9"}

... fields removed for length...

       {/exp:weblog:entry_form}
     
     {/if} <!-- no_entries -->
     
      <!-- show the edit form -->
      
      {Company Profile Edit}
      
      {exp:weblog:entry_form weblog="companies" return="account" use_live_url="no"}
       <input type="hidden" name="entry_id" value="{entry_id}" />
       <input type="hidden" name="title" value="{title}" />
       <input type="hidden" name="entry_date" value="{entry_date format='%Y-%m-%d %g:%i %A'}" />
       <input type="hidden" name="category[]" value="{cat_id}" />
            
... fields removed for length...

      {/exp:weblog:entry_form}
     
    {/exp:weblog:entries}

Again, everything populates except for the category- view source is below:

<form id='entryform' method="post" action="http://mysite.com/account/company/"  >
<div class='hiddenFields'>
<input type="hidden" name="ACT" value="18" />
<input type="hidden" name="RET" value="http://mysite.com/account/company/" />
<input type="hidden" name="PRV" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="URI" value="/account/company/" />
<input type="hidden" name="XID" value="8288a27c371a2e77a7d48aced8e38f535b4eaef1" />
<input type="hidden" name="return_url" value="account" />
<input type="hidden" name="author_id" value="2" />
<input type="hidden" name="weblog_id" value="4" />
<input type="hidden" name="site_id" value="1" />

</div>


<input type="hidden" name="entry_id" value="11" />
<input type="hidden" name="title" value="Web Inception" />
<input type="hidden" name="entry_date" value="2008-03-26 10:52 PM" />
<input type="hidden" name="category[]" value="{cat_id}" />

Any ideas? Thanks- Chad

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Pie Man

Posted: 01 April 2008 10:53 AM

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Chad,

You’ll need to wrap the {categories} variable pair around your code

{categories}<input type="hidden" name="category[]" value="{category_id}" />{/categories}

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Chad Crowell

Posted: 01 April 2008 11:31 AM

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OK that worked.

The < input type="hidden" name="category[]" value="{cat_id}" / > in step 6 of your plugin instructions is a bit misleading. If you instead showed the line you recommended above I think it would have been much clearer. Just my .02.

TTYL thanks

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Posted: 01 April 2008 11:35 AM

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Yeah, you’re right… I’ll slap Mitchell for that one

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msteinruck

Posted: 13 November 2008 07:12 AM

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I wonder if someone can give me a hand here as well. I have an edit form manually populated with the values from the category because they don’t seem to come in automatically. But the real problem is that when I come to the edit page, the dropdown field doesn’t show the category selected for the entry. It always lands on “A” which isn’t correct. Here’s my code. Help.

<p><label for="category">Category</label>
<select name="category[]">
{exp:form_helper:categories entry_id="{entry_id}" parent_id="2"}
<option value="{cat_id}" {selected}>{cat_name}</option>
{/exp:form_helper:categories}
<option value="A">A</option>
<option value="B">B</option>
<option value="C">C</option>
<option value="D">D</option>
<option value="E">E</option>
<option value="F">F</option>
<option value="G">G</option>
<option value="H">H</option>
<option value="I">I</option>
<option value="J">J</option>
<option value="K">K</option>
<option value="L">L</option>
<option value="M">M</option>
<option value="N">N</option>
<option value="O">O</option>
<option value="P">P</option>
<option value="Q">Q</option>
<option value="R">R</option>
<option value="S">S</option>
<option value="T">T</option>
<option value="U">U</option>
<option value="V">V</option>
<option value="W">W</option>
<option value="X">X</option>
<option value="Y">Y</option>
<option value="Z">Z</option>
</select>
{categories}<input type="hidden" name="category[]" value="{cat_id}" />{/categories} 
</p>

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Pie Man

Posted: 13 November 2008 07:55 AM

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So this code does not work for you?

<select name="category[]">
{exp:form_helper:categories entry_id="{entry_id}"}
<option value="{cat_id}" {selected}>{cat_name}</option>
{/exp:form_helper:categories}
</select>

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msteinruck

Posted: 14 November 2008 09:22 AM

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What in the world?! I thought I had copied that same code out of the example php file verbatim. Apparently not, because this time it worked like a charm. Thanks Pie Man!

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Posted: 14 November 2008 09:31 AM

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msteinruck,

Haha… well, there’s a good chance that file is out of date, as it’s probably 1 or 2 years old

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