JSP argument mapping

Question

Hi,
I am new to JSP and was trying my hands at using JSP in BPM.I was able to build a simple JSP where the user enetered the name and his age which I had retrieved in BPM by using BPM tag library.The form also has two buttons Submit and Cancel button and when users clicks any of them , I am then determining my next set of actions.
But i am not able to get the button action in BPM.There is something called 'Show Out' in the argument mapping and has number of output arguments.However i am clueless which one of them to use and how.If anybody has an idea or some kind of basic tutorial on JSP n BPM,please help.
I have also tried using the sample exp given for JSP in OBPM but there is no argument mapping in that :(
Thanx in advance,
Ritu

Answer 1

Hi Ritu,
You want to navigate to another page clicking on the SUBMIT/CANCEL button.
For doing so you have to add the following code
<form method="post" name="sampleForm" id ="sampleForm" action="<f:postResults/>">
<input type="submit" id="SUBMIT" value="Submit" onclick="submitForm('SUBMIT')">
<input type="submit" id="CANCEL" value="Cancel" onclick="submitForm('CANCEL')">
<input type="hidden" id="selectedButton" <f:fieldName att="bpmObject.selectedButton"/> value="<f:fieldValue att="bpmObject.selectedButton" onlyValue="true"/>"/>
</form>
<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
function submitForm(buttonId) {     
document.getElementById("selectedButton").value = buttonId;
</SCRIPT>
Now you can get the value of the bpm attribute in process layer and you can make use of the value of the bpm attribute and make a conditional flow if the value of the attribute is SUBMIT then have a conditional flow and if not then do another conditional/unconditional flow.
I hope this will help you out
Bibhu
Edited by: Bibhuti Bhusan on May 21, 2010 1:36 AM