[pmwiki-users] Attach form field type (was: More answers to:More Wikiforms)

[John Rankin]

On Tuesday, 7 August 2007 11:30 AM, Sameer Kumar <skumar at eharch.com> wrote:
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>On a related issue: In case I want to convert each of the
>entries into links (I do that by using
>[[(groupname.)<formfield>]]), I would not be able to achieve
>that with these multiple input boxes, would I? I believe that
>it would be best achieved by creating separate input boxes for each entry. Do you agree?
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That's correct.
 
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>I have had an "attach" field type on my to do list for a while.
>Maybe it's time to give this task a higher priority...
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>That sounds good. I would like to be able to restrict the file
>names and not have the users type it in.
>Could you guide me some more with this?
>Thanks.
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In that case, you might be better using the "hide" field type;
for example:

:Image file:image (hide Attach:Image_$Name.png)

This will force the value of the field to be (for page 00001)
Attach:Image_00001.png

I included the page name to guarantee a unique file name.


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