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Problems with Status

Frank Johnson

Posted: 16 October 2007 07:30 PM

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Hi. I posted this in the EE plugin discussion forum, but it was suggested that I might find more help here.

I’m trying to use the Form Helper plugin to create a stand alone edit form for my clients who own this site. I have been able to get the basic form working fairly easily, but I’m running into problems with the exp:form_helper:statuses tag.

Here’s the code I’m using:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="newsletters" show_expired="yes" rdf="off"}
{exp:weblog:entry_form weblog="newsletters"}

<input type="hidden" name="entry_id" value="{entry_id}" />

{exp:form_helper:statuses entry_id="{entry_id}"}
<input type="radio" name="status" value="{entry_status}" {checked} /> {entry_status}
{/exp:form_helper:statuses}

<p><strong>Title</strong><br />
<input type="text" name="title" value="{title}" class="saeftextfield" maxlength="100" /></p>

<p><strong>Image For The Article</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
(applies only to main weblog, newsletters and testbed; image should be 500 pixels wide by 100 pixels high)<br />
<textarea name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='entryimage'}"  rows="10" class="saeftextarea2" />{exp:form_helper:field_parser}{entryimage}{/exp:form_helper:field_parser}</textarea>
<input type="hidden" name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='body' which='format'}" value="br" /></p>

<p><strong>Body</strong><br />
<textarea name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='body'}"  rows="10" class="saeftextarea" />{exp:form_helper:field_parser}{body}{/exp:form_helper:field_parser}</textarea>
<input type="hidden" name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='body' which='format'}" value="br" /></p>

<p><strong>Extended Text</strong><br />
<textarea name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='extended'}"  rows="10" class="saeftextarea" />{exp:form_helper:field_parser}{extended}{/exp:form_helper:field_parser}</textarea>
<input type="hidden" name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='extended' which='format'}" value="br" /></p>

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />

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

The problem is that the status checkboxes don’t show up at all on the form.

If I use the standard status drop-down menu from an EE stand alone _entry_ form:

{status_menu}
<p>Status<br />
<select name="status">
{select_options}
</select>
</p>
{/status_menu}

I can get the drop-down menu to show up on the form, and I can close an entry from that form. However, if I go back to the same url (basedomainname/index.php/templategroup/saef/entryid) to see if I can open the entry again, I just get white space where the form should be.

My ultimate objective is to enable the client to use a stand alone edit form to close an entry and to open it back up again, but I would sacrifice the “open it back up again” if necessary.

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer - I really appreciate it. Let me know if you need more information or further explanation.

Frank

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sts

Posted: 15 August 2008 11:25 AM

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I’m actually experiencing this same issue. Can anyone give an explanation to this issue?

Basically, to sum it up, I cannot get the form helper status to work.

{exp:form_helper:statuses entry_id="{entry_id}" exclude="open|closed|hamsandwich"}
<input type="radio" name="status" value="{entry_status}" {checked} /> {entry_status}
{/exp:form_helper:statuses}

I only have an open and closed status. If I don’t include the exclude parameter, nothing shows up at all. If I do include it, the input shows up, but there are no statuses listed. It appears to me, {entry_status} variable isn’t being rendered in the value parameter or as the title for the input field. I’ve tried this with a select dropdown as well and it doesn’t work.

Has anyone else experienced issues when using the statuses form helper?

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Pie Man

Posted: 15 August 2008 11:31 AM

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Frank/Sts,

You’re both forgetting the <select> parts of the form field.

It should look like this:

<select name="status">
{exp:form_helper:statuses entry_id="{entry_id}"}
<option value='{entry_status}' {checked}>{entry_status}</option>
{/exp:form_helper:statuses}
</select>

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Posted: 15 August 2008 11:38 AM

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Thanks for the quick reply pieman…

Actually, I didn’t put that portion in my post although I’ve tried that. What I pasted was an input, not a select. Here is where I currently am with my struggles.

<p>
 <label>Status:</label>     
 <select name="status">
  {exp:form_helper:statuses entry_id="{entry_id}" exclude="open|closed"}
  <option value='{entry_status}' {selected}>{entry_status}</option>
  {/exp:form_helper:statuses}
 </select>
</p>

...and that is rendering out as:

<p>
 <label>Status:</label>     
  <select name="status">
   <option value='' ></option>
  </select>
</p>

...if I eliminate the “exclude” parameter which makes sense to me from the plugin docs, the following:

<p>
 <label>Status:</label>     
 <select name="status">
  {exp:form_helper:statuses entry_id="{entry_id}"}
  <option value='{entry_status}' {selected}>{entry_status}</option>
  {/exp:form_helper:statuses}
 </select>
</p>

...renders to this:

<p>
<label>Status:</label>     
 <select name="status">     
 </select>
</p>

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Posted: 15 August 2008 11:46 AM

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Just out of curiousity, what happens when you do this:

<p>
 <label>Status:</label>  
 <select name="status">
  {exp:form_helper:statuses entry_id="{entry_id}" exclude="closed"}
  <option value='{entry_status}' {selected}>{entry_status}</option>
  {/exp:form_helper:statuses}
 </select>
</p>

Or this: ({checked} instead of {selected} - I thought I remember there being an issue with {selected})

<p>
 <label>Status:</label>  
 <select name="status">
  {exp:form_helper:statuses entry_id="{entry_id}" exclude="closed"}
  <option value='{entry_status}' {checked}>{entry_status}</option>
  {/exp:form_helper:statuses}
 </select>
</p>

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Posted: 15 August 2008 11:55 AM

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They actually both render the same:

<p>
 <label>Status:</label>  
 <select name="status">
  <option value=' ' ></option>
 </select>
</p>

hmm.

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Posted: 15 August 2008 11:56 AM

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It’s basically ignoring {entry_status}. I re-downloaded the plugin and installed it, just to make sure I had the latest build of it, and it’s the same result.

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Posted: 15 August 2008 12:00 PM

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Well, for the time-being, is it ok if you hardcode the form?

<select name="status">
<option value="open" {if status == "open"}selected="selected"{/if}>Open</option>
<option value="closed" {if status == "closed"}selected="selected"{/if}>Closed</option>
</select>

The conditionals will “remember” which is currently selected

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Posted: 15 August 2008 12:06 PM

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Actually, that is exactly what I just implemented and it’s working well. Of course, I would like to set it and forget it, but this will work for now. Thanks so much!

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Posted: 15 August 2008 12:22 PM

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Strange though… I have it working on my site....

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Posted: 15 August 2008 12:27 PM

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yeah, something must be up on my site because it doesn’t work with status or pulldowns, but categories work like a charm. I’m using a url_title="{segment_3" and limit="1" parameters. Would that cause any ill effect?

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Posted: 15 August 2008 12:47 PM

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sts - 15 August 2008 12:27 PM
I’m using a url_title="{segment_3" and limit="1" parameters. Would that cause any ill effect?

Hmmmm… even if that was somehow the issue, Categories seems to work though…

Are you able to post your full code?

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Posted: 15 August 2008 12:51 PM

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Following is all of my code for the edit form. I actually had an error in the custom field pulldown problem that I mentioned. I had a typo in my custom field variable. The status is still the issue and right now, I have it being set conditionally with pure Expression Engine. If you see anything for me to try, I’ll give it a shot:)

{if segment_2 == "edit_form" AND segment_3 != "submitted"}  

  {exp:weblog:entries weblog="as_materials" status="open|closed" url_title="{segment_3}" limit="1"}

    <div id="c1">
     <img src="/images/uploads/ad_support/previews/{title}.jpg" width="450" height="450" />
    </div><!--/c1-->

    <div id="c2">

     {exp:weblog:entry_form weblog="as_materials" return="ad_support/edit_form/submitted"}
     <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}" />
     <input type="hidden" name="url_title" id='url_title' value="{url_title}" />
     
     <p>
      <label>Title:</label>
      <input class="input" type="text" name="title" id="title" value="{title}" size="50" maxlength="100" onkeyup="liveUrlTitle();" />
     </p>
     
     <p>
     <label>File type:</label>
     <select name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='as_filetype'}">
     {exp:form_helper:custom_pulldown entry_id="{entry_id}" field_name="as_filetype"}
     <option value="{value}" {selected}>{value}</option>
     {/exp:form_helper:custom_pulldown}
     </select>
     <input type="hidden" name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='as_filetype' which='format'}" value="br" />
     </p>
     
     <p>
     <label>Description:</label>     
     <textarea class="textarea" name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name="as_description"}" cols="10" rows="4">{as_description}</textarea>
     </p>

     <p>
     <label>Categories:</label>
     <select class="multiple" name="category[]" size="5" multiple="multiple">
      {exp:form_helper:categories entry_id="{entry_id}"}
      <option value="{cat_id}" {selected}>{cat_name}</option>
      {/exp:form_helper:categories}
     </select>
     </p>
      
     <p>
     <label>Status:</label>     
     <select name="status">
      <option value='open' {if status == "open"}selected{/if}>open</option>
      <option value='closed' {if status == "closed"}selected{/if}>closed</option>
     </select>
     </p>
          
     <div id="submit_area">
      <input class="submit" type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />
     <div class="clear"></div><!--/clear-->
     </div><!--/submit_area--> 
    {/exp:weblog:entry_form}
  {/exp:weblog:entries}   

    <br class="clear" />
    </div><!--/c2-->

{if:elseif segment_2 == "edit_form" AND segment_3 == "submitted"}
    <div id="submitted">
     <h1>Submitted!</h1>
    </div>
{/if}

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Posted: 19 August 2008 06:33 AM

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Just for the record, you shouldn’t need to use url_title="{segment_3}” as it will automatically detect the Entry ID from the URL

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