Replacing page flow factory

Hello,
We are using Portal 8.1 SP6
I have seen an interesting way to implement dependency injection in NanoWAR (PicoContainer).
They have implemented their own the struts processorClass, which is responsible to resolve the dependencies for the struts Action classes, and there they inject dependencies.
The dependencies key is the URL to an action.
Since a page flow is somehow a struts action, I was looking for a way to replace the processor class by my own one. Have a look at the .pageflow-struts-generated directory and you will see that Portal has defined following line:
processorClass="com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.PageFlowRequestProcessor"
Has anybody any idea about how to replace that class?
If this is not possible, is there a way replace Portal's page flow factory by my own one?
Thanks,
Yves Bossel
Edited by ybossel at 05/29/2007 7:13 AM

Hello,
After some research Workshop documentation I have found the com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.FlowControllerFactory class.
That class is responsible to resolve the page flow class and to create new page flow instances.
If I could specify the FlowControllerFactory, it would be possible to inject the dependencies into the page flows, just after they get instantiated.
The idea is to declare a decorator for the FlowControllerFactory that injects the dependencies (setter injection) after the decorated FlowControllerFactory has created a page flow.
Note that I would prefer to use constructor injection. But this is a good start.
I would appreciate any idea about how to replace the FlowControllerFactory.
Thanks in advance,
Yves

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We are looking into this and will get back to you.
Regards,
Anurag
"John Hundley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
Hi,
I have developed a Page Flow application that has more than one entrypoint into
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that only works to go to the previous page and no further. I was thinkingI could
set a variable in the globalApp class that would point to the initialentry page
but I would have to do that in the .jsp and I haven't quite figured outhow to
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of doing what I am trying to do? Has anyone done this sort of thing andhave an
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Eddie O'Neil <[email protected]> wrote:
Zhenhao--
Try putting everything on a single line; it looks like the \n's at the
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Eddie
Zhenhao Qi wrote:
Hi Eddie,
Thanks for the hint, by using <netui:content/> tag, I did get rid ofthe HTML
<span> ...</span> wrap. However, I still got several empty lines beforemy output
(please see the attached returned-format.txt and the format_wanted.txtand the
screen shot ), this causes my plugin refuse to render the picture.I think those
empty line is due to my code below, somehow the WLS output newlineif I have code
on that line "
<%@ page contentType="chemical/x-mdl-molfile"%>
<%@ taglib uri="netui-tags-databinding.tld" prefix="netui-data"%>
<%@ taglib uri="netui-tags-template.tld" prefix="netui-template"%>
<%@taglib prefix="netui" uri="netui-tags-html.tld"%>
<netui-data:callPageFlow method="GetMolbyscode" resultId="jpfMol">
<netui-data:methodParameter value="{url.Sample_code}"/>
</netui-data:callPageFlow>
<netui:content value="{pageContext.jpfMol}" >
</netui:content>
I think we are getting close to solve the problem, but this maybe adifficult
one due to workshop's own setting.
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zq
Eddie O'Neil <[email protected]> wrote:
Zhenhao--
Try using the <netui:content/> tag; this simply writes the text to
the output stream and does not wrap it in an HTML <span>...</span>
as
the <netui:label/> tag does.
Let me know if that helps...
Eddie
Zhenhao Qi wrote:
Hi,
Looks like my workshop debugger is behaving better this afternoon.My apology
for the previous message, the "call PageFlow" did return the stringI expected,
However, the format is little off from what I expected, please seethe attached
return format and the format I wanted.
I have the following jsp code:
<%@ page contentType="chemical/x-mdl-molfile"%>
<%@ taglib uri="netui-tags-databinding.tld" prefix="netui-data"%>
<%@ taglib uri="netui-tags-html.tld" prefix="netui"%>
<%@ taglib uri="netui-tags-template.tld" prefix="netui-template"%>
<%@taglib prefix="netui" uri="netui-tags-html.tld"%>
<netui-data:callPageFlow method="GetMolbyscode" resultId="jpfMol">
<netui-data:methodParameter value="{url.Sample_code}"/>
</netui-data:callPageFlow>
<netui:label value="{pageContext.jpfMol}" >
</netui:label>
Is there any way inside workshop that I maybe able to tweak code alittle to make
the format suit my need, this is critical for my plugin to recognizethe format
to reder some picture.
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Zq
"Zhenhao Qi" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Eddie,
Thanks a lot for the info.! the "{url.Sample_code}" did solve my
dynamic
data
binding problem, however it looks like it did not return any thingwhen
I use
the following code:
<netui-data:callPageFlow method="GetMolbyscode" resultId="jpfMol">
<netui-data:methodParameter value="{url.Sample_code}"/>
</netui-data:callPageFlow>
<netui:label value="{pageContext.jpfMol}" >
</netui:label>
The method "GetMolbyscode" in the .jpf as following:
public String GetMolbyscode(String S_code)
try {
java.sql.Clob molfile = structuredb.getmolbyscode(S_code);
int len = (int)molfile.length();
String molfil = molfile.getSubString(1, len);
return molfil;
catch (SQLException e) {
System.err.print("Caught Exception : ") ;
e.printStackTrace() ;
return null;
I did use "toggle breakpoint" to step through the excution of "GetMolbyscode",
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the
returned
string "molfil" contains several "\n" inside it, I am wondering this
may cause
the problem.
By the way, the "toggle breakpoint" debugging function sometimesdid
not work,
I am wondering why.
Thanks!
Zq
Eddie O'Neil <[email protected]> wrote:
Zhenhao--
The NetUI tags use data binding expressions to access data. Oneof
the ways you could do this is to use the "url" binding context,
which
provides access to the first parameter that shows up on the URLfor
each
parameter key; this is equivalent to your getParameter(...) call.
Replace your methodParameter with this:
<netui-data:methodParameter value="{url.Sample_code}"/>
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Eddie
Zhenhao Qi wrote:
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I am new to this newsgroup. I am using workshop 8.1 and try to
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%>
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Page flow exception

I have one serious problem when handling exception in page flow. ie.
my code looks like,
// Generated by WebLogic Workshop
// Created on: Mon Dec 01 15:31:45 GMT+05:30 2003
// By: kshashishekar
package portlets.validation.validation;
import com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.FormData;
import com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.Forward;
import com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.PageFlowController;
import com.bea.wlw.netui.tags.html.TreeNode;
import javax.security.auth.login.FailedLoginException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
import org.apache.struts.action.*;
import com.login.CustomLogin;
import com.bea.p13n.controls.login.UserLoginControl;
* @jpf:controller struts-merge="struts-config-portlets-validation-validation2.xml"
* @jpf:message-resources resources="validation.validator.Message"
* @jpf:view-properties view-properties::
* 
* <view-properties>
* <pageflow-object id="pageflow:/portlets/validation/validation/validationController.jpf"/>
* <pageflow-object id="action:begin.do">
* <property value="280" name="x"/>
* <property value="60" name="y"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="action:validate1.do#portlets.validation.validation.validationController.ValidateForm">
* <property value="220" name="x"/>
* <property value="200" name="y"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="action:logout.do#portlets.validation.validation.validationController.ValidateForm">
* <property value="120" name="x"/>
* <property value="100" name="y"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="action-call:@page:validate1Page1.jsp@#@action:validate1.do#portlets.validation.validation.validationController.ValidateForm@">
* <property value="384,320,320,256" name="elbowsX"/>
* <property value="172,172,192,192" name="elbowsY"/>
* <property value="West_1" name="fromPort"/>
* <property value="East_1" name="toPort"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="page:validate1Page1.jsp">
* <property value="420" name="x"/>
* <property value="180" name="y"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="action-call:@page:Result.jsp@#@action:validate1.do#portlets.validation.validation.validationController.ValidateForm@">
* <property value="156,170,170,184" name="elbowsX"/>
* <property value="332,332,203,203" name="elbowsY"/>
* <property value="East_1" name="fromPort"/>
* <property value="West_2" name="toPort"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="page:Result.jsp">
* <property value="120" name="x"/>
* <property value="340" name="y"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="page:/error.jsp">
* <property value="40" name="x"/>
* <property value="180" name="y"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="forward:path#success#validate1Page1.jsp#@action:begin.do@">
* <property value="316,350,350,384" name="elbowsX"/>
* <property value="52,52,172,172" name="elbowsY"/>
* <property value="East_1" name="fromPort"/>
* <property value="West_1" name="toPort"/>
* <property value="success" name="label"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="forward:path#success#Result.jsp#@action:validate1.do#portlets.validation.validation.validationController.ValidateForm@">
* <property value="184,170,170,156" name="elbowsX"/>
* <property value="192,192,332,332" name="elbowsY"/>
* <property value="West_1" name="fromPort"/>
* <property value="East_1" name="toPort"/>
* <property value="success" name="label"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="forward:path#success#validate1Page1.jsp#@action:logout.do#portlets.validation.validation.validationController.ValidateForm@">
* <property value="156,270,270,384" name="elbowsX"/>
* <property value="92,92,172,172" name="elbowsY"/>
* <property value="East_1" name="fromPort"/>
* <property value="West_1" name="toPort"/>
* <property value="success" name="label"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="control:com.bea.p13n.controls.login.UserLoginControl#myControl">
* <property value="28" name="x"/>
* <property value="34" name="y"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="formbeanprop:portlets.validation.validation.validationController.ValidateForm#username#java.lang.String"/>
* <pageflow-object id="formbeanprop:portlets.validation.validation.validationController.ValidateForm#password#java.lang.String"/>
* <pageflow-object id="formbean:portlets.validation.validation.validationController.ValidateForm"/>
* </view-properties>
public class validationController extends PageFlowController
* This is the control used to generate this pageflow
* @common:control
private UserLoginControl myControl;
// Uncomment this declaration to access Global.app.
// protected global.Global globalApp;
// For an example of page flow exception handling see the example "catch"
and "exception-handler"
// annotations in {project}/WEB-INF/src/global/Global.app
* This method represents the point of entry into the pageflow
* @jpf:action
* @jpf:forward name="success" path="validate1Page1.jsp"
protected Forward begin()
return new Forward( "success" );
* @jpf:action validation-error-page="validate1Page1.jsp"
* @jpf:forward name="success" path="Result.jsp"
* @jpf:catch method="exceptionHandler" type="Exception"
protected Forward validate1(ValidateForm aForm) throws Exception
com.bea.p13n.usermgmt.profile.ProfileWrapper var = myControl.login( aForm.username,
aForm.password, getRequest());
getRequest().setAttribute( "results", var );
return new Forward("success",aForm);
* Action encapsulating the control method :logout
* @jpf:action
* @jpf:forward name="success" path="validate1Page1.jsp"
* @jpf:catch message="not authenticated" path="/error.jsp" type="Exception"
public Forward logout( ValidateForm aForm )
throws Exception
myControl.logout( getRequest() );
return new Forward( "success" );
* @jpf:exception-handler
* @jpf:forward name="errorPage" path="/error.jsp"
protected Forward exceptionHandler( Exception ex, String actionName, String
message, FormData form )
String displayMessage = "An exception occurred in the action " + actionName;
System.out.println ("display message "+displayMessage);
getRequest().setAttribute( "errorMessage", displayMessage );
return new Forward( "errorPage" );
* FormData get and set methods may be overwritten by the Form Bean editor.
public static class ValidateForm extends org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorForm
private String password;
private String username;
public void setUsername(String username)
this.username = username;
public String getUsername()
return this.username;
public void setPassword(String password)
this.password = password;
public String getPassword()
return this.password;
* added just to test validate (override) method.
public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping map, HttpServletRequest req)
ActionErrors errors = null;
try {
errors = super.validate(map,req);
}catch (Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
if (errors ==null) {
System.out.println ("errors = "+errors);
} else
System.out.println ("errors= "+errors);
return errors;
in the above code when we call "validate1" action, it will authenticate successfully
when we enter valid username and passowrd.
But when i enter invalid credentials page flow controller should execute "handleException"
method but at this time i am getting an error
Page Flow Unhandled Exception
Exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
Message: argument type mismatch
A java.lang.IllegalArgumentException exception was thrown and not handled by any
Page Flow. See the console for the exception stack trace.
please help us on how to rectify this error.
thanks,
shashi
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Hi-
That may be on the right track, but the /index.jsp page gets displayed in the
portlet...I am still within the portal framework, so I don't think I am loosing
the context...
-Howie
"Khurram Zafar" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
you are most likely redirecting to the /error.jsp page and losing the
context for
your portal app. The index.jsp page may be defined as your <welcome-file>
in your
web.xml file. The best thing to do is to save the context before visiting
error.jsp
and then provide a link in error.jsp to go back. Look at javadoc for
PageURL for
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pass it
to your error page.
"Howie Oakes" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello-
I have a page flow portlet that I am testing some exception handling
on. Right
now when I catch an exception, I display the global /error.jsp page,
using the
@jpf:catch tag. The problem is when I refresh the page after viewing
the error
page, the pageflow always pulls up the /index.jsp page at the root of
the webapp.
I have to get a new session to see the original page flow.
This only happens when I am running the Jpf as a portlet...I don't see
this behavior
with it stand-alone.
I am not sure why the index.jsp page is being called...there are noreferences
to it in my jpf code...
thanks,
Howie

Multiple Browsers with the same Page Flow

I have a legacy application that I am working on migrating to Weblogic. The
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module open at the same time. Users found this useful if they wanted to look
at two different records in the same module. For example, if you had a
registration app and you wanted to look at Joe's registration information
and Sue's registration. Is it possible to have two browsers within the same
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I believe our problem is that our form beans are class members of the page
flow thus when you open another instance of the same controller the form
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tabs with a form bean for each tab. The module has a controller, signifying
the page flow for the module. So, one record in a module will span multiple
tabs. We did not want to have one big form bean that is why we multiple
form beans. But it now looks like we will need to store these form beans
perhaps to the session in a collection identified by the window instance
they belong to.
We also need to do multiple different page flows but I don't think nested
page flows will not work here because the page flows would almost need to be
nested of each other. I guess you could almost think of as each module is
an independent application however some can be invoked by others.
<Rich Feit> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
Hi Michelle,
Yes, that should be just fine. That page flow will remain the "current
page flow" as requests from both browser windows hit it. The NetUI
runtime synchronizes the action methods, so you don't need to worry about
thread-safety within them.
There's also a way to have multiple different active page flows at the
same time, but in this case you don't need to do anything special.
Rich

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I have a legacy application that I am working on migrating to Weblogic. The
legacy application allowed the user to have multiple windows of the same
module open at the same time. Users found this useful if they wanted to look
at two different records in the same module. For example, if you had a
registration app and you wanted to look at Joe's registration information
and Sue's registration. Is it possible to have two browsers within the same
session open and pointing to the same RegistrationController.jpf?
We currently have our form beans stored in the page flow which seems to
cause a problem as when we open another browser instance in the same session
pointing to the same page flow, the form beans from the first window are
overwritten. An approach we are possbily looking at is to store the form
beans in an object in the session and identify a set of form beans as
belonging to a particular window instance - perhaps by uniquely naming the
windows as they are opened.
Has anyone done this before with needing to have multiple instances of the
same page flow or multiple instances of different non-nested page flows open
at the same time?
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Hi Vijay,
Thanks for the reply, But that's not the right aproach.
I cannot change the application to stateless, Since the standard application where the page resides is statefull.
Also some of the business logic I cannot achive with stateless application
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I've been struggling to communicate between different page flow portlets,
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I am able to do this by using PageUrl class and RequestDispatcher's forward method using definition label of the index page flow portlet.
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public void getMessage(ActionRequest request, ActionResponse response,
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Any clues on this bug. I get this error while editing pageflow. It just started
happening this morning.
I must say, WLW crashes gracefully. It allows me to report this message directly
to BEA, and then allows me to save my files. However, I do need a resolution to
this problem, hopefully soon.
java.lang.NullPointerException
     at workshop.pageflow.model.ExternalPageFlow.refChanged(ExternalPageFlow.java:120)
     at workshop.pageflow.model.DocumentEventAdapter.processModelObjects(DocumentEventAdapter.java:492)
     at workshop.pageflow.model.DocumentEventAdapter.process(DocumentEventAdapter.java:177)
     at workshop.pageflow.model.DocumentEventAdapter.elementChange(DocumentEventAdapter.java:123)
     at com.bea.ide.element.ElementChangeSupport.fireListeners(ElementChangeSupport.java:253)
     at com.bea.ide.element.ElementChangeSupport.fireElementChange(ElementChangeSupport.java:243)
     at com.bea.ide.element.ElementChangeSupport.fireElementChange(ElementChangeSupport.java:219)
     at com.bea.ide.document.DefaultDocument.fireElementChildRemoved(DefaultDocument.java:482)
     at com.bea.ide.sourceeditor.DefaultSourceDocument.mergeComplete(DefaultSourceDocument.java:523)
     at com.bea.ide.sourceeditor.DefaultSourceDocument.mergeMetadata(DefaultSourceDocument.java:610)
     at workshop.sourceeditor.compiler.CompilerProject$MergeRunner.run(CompilerProject.java:1448)
     at workshop.sourceeditor.compiler.CompilerSvcImpl$TreeMergeLock.runMerger(CompilerSvcImpl.java:161)
     at workshop.sourceeditor.compiler.CompilerProject$4.run(CompilerProject.java:1498)
     at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:178)
     at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:448)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:197)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:150)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:144)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:136)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:99)
Thanks
Kunal Mittal

Raj -
Yes I am using SP2. I have had Workshop crash SEVERAL times when working with
page flows. Some sort of null pointer exception. The only good thing is that workshop
crashes gracefully, so I didn't lose any work that I was doing.
Thanks.
Kunal
"Raj Alagumalai" <[email protected]> wrote:
Kunal,
Can you try using SP2 ?
Thanks,
Raj Alagumalai
Backline Workshop Support
"Kunal Mittal" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Workshop Gurus -
Any clues on this bug. I get this error while editing pageflow. Itjust
started
happening this morning.
I must say, WLW crashes gracefully. It allows me to report this messagedirectly
to BEA, and then allows me to save my files. However, I do need aresolution to
this problem, hopefully soon.
java.lang.NullPointerException
atworkshop.pageflow.model.ExternalPageFlow.refChanged(ExternalPageFlow.java:12
0)
atworkshop.pageflow.model.DocumentEventAdapter.processModelObjects(DocumentEve
ntAdapter.java:492)
atworkshop.pageflow.model.DocumentEventAdapter.process(DocumentEventAdapter.ja
va:177)
atworkshop.pageflow.model.DocumentEventAdapter.elementChange(DocumentEventAdap
ter.java:123)
atcom.bea.ide.element.ElementChangeSupport.fireListeners(ElementChangeSupport.
java:253)
atcom.bea.ide.element.ElementChangeSupport.fireElementChange(ElementChangeSupp
ort.java:243)
atcom.bea.ide.element.ElementChangeSupport.fireElementChange(ElementChangeSupp
ort.java:219)
atcom.bea.ide.document.DefaultDocument.fireElementChildRemoved(DefaultDocument
.java:482)
atcom.bea.ide.sourceeditor.DefaultSourceDocument.mergeComplete(DefaultSourceDo
cument.java:523)
atcom.bea.ide.sourceeditor.DefaultSourceDocument.mergeMetadata(DefaultSourceDo
cument.java:610)
atworkshop.sourceeditor.compiler.CompilerProject$MergeRunner.run(CompilerProje
ct.java:1448)
atworkshop.sourceeditor.compiler.CompilerSvcImpl$TreeMergeLock.runMerger(Compi
lerSvcImpl.java:161)
atworkshop.sourceeditor.compiler.CompilerProject$4.run(CompilerProject.java:14
98)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:178)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:448)
atjava.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.ja
va:197)
atjava.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java
:150)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:144)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:136)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:99)
Thanks
Kunal Mittal

How do you drag pages from one PDF to replace pages in another?

In Acrobat Pro CS2 for Macintosh you could drag one or more pages from one PDF, and choose whether to insert them into another PDF, or replace pages in the other PDF.
To insert them you dropped the dragged pages between two pages in the Pages panel.
To replace pages in the other PDF you dropped the dragged pages onto a page in the Pages panel.
I recently upgraded to Acrobat CS5, and this no longer seems to work. All you can do is insert.
Of course I can then delete the pages I wanted to replace, but it's now much less convenient, and there's more opportunity for error.
Am I missing something, or has this feature really been removed between CS2 and CS5?

You still can but you have to press command + option when you cursor is hovering over the page you want to replace. A blue border will appear around the page.
So select the new page you are bringing in, drag it over to your main document, keeping the mouse pressed down. Hover over the page you want to replace and press command + option. A blue box will appear around the page. Let go of the mouse and you will get your confirmation message. Press OK, and you are good to go.

How to submit a form with checkboxes in a page flow?

I'm having some trouble with a form that contains several checkboxes, and
how to submit this form within a page flow...
I have a JSP page containing a form with N checkboxes. The value and
checked/unchecked status of each checkbox is generated from parsing an XML
document. Here is the (simplified) code:
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/xml" prefix="x" %>
<netui:form action="doUpdate">
<x:forEach select="...">
<input type="checkbox" name="id"
<x:if ...>checked</x:if> value="<x:out ... />">
</x:forEach>
<netui:anchor formSubmit="true" action="doUpdate">Submit</netui:anchor>
<netui:anchor action="doCancel">Cancel</netui:anchor>
</netui:form>
When this form is submitted, the checkbox values are lost -- the following
code (in the action) produces an empty array:
String[] prefs = this.getRequest().getParameterValues("id");
I looked at the <netui:checkbox> tag, but it does not appear to give me a
way to set the state and value (unless I've missed something).
Can I submit a form without using a form bean? If I do use a form bean, can
I set the state and value from my JSP?
Any suggestions on how to do this (or insights into what I'm doing wrong)
are welcome...
-- Craig

I am new to this, but I think this may solve your problem:
I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but you can create a LinkedHashMap
with the req key/value pairs in the page-calling action in the pageflow and then
pass that via a getRequest().setAttribute("myCheckboxes",myCheckboxHashMap);
You can then access it in code using the optionsDataSource portion of the netui:checkBoxGroup
- ie
<netui:checkBoxGroup dataSource="{actionForm.thisCheckbox}" optionsDataSource="{request.myCheckboxes}">
Hope this helps!
m
"Craig Coffin" <craig+1268fbec@nfld-dot-com> wrote:
I'm having some trouble with a form that contains several checkboxes,
and
how to submit this form within a page flow...
I have a JSP page containing a form with N checkboxes. The value and
checked/unchecked status of each checkbox is generated from parsing an
XML
document. Here is the (simplified) code:
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/xml" prefix="x" %>
<netui:form action="doUpdate">
<x:forEach select="...">
<input type="checkbox" name="id"
<x:if ...>checked</x:if> value="<x:out ... />">
</x:forEach>
<netui:anchor formSubmit="true" action="doUpdate">Submit</netui:anchor>
<netui:anchor action="doCancel">Cancel</netui:anchor>
</netui:form>
When this form is submitted, the checkbox values are lost -- the following
code (in the action) produces an empty array:
String[] prefs = this.getRequest().getParameterValues("id");
I looked at the <netui:checkbox> tag, but it does not appear to give
me a
way to set the state and value (unless I've missed something).
Can I submit a form without using a form bean? If I do use a form bean,
can
I set the state and value from my JSP?
Any suggestions on how to do this (or insights into what I'm doing wrong)
are welcome...
-- Craig

Drag and drop STILL sketchy in Struts Page Flow

Struts Page Flow has been a major problem area in JDev since it was introduced, and I am still having some useability issues with it.
I CANNOT drag an application module method out, onto a data action; if the data action isn't one of the newest actions on the page. If the action has more than one target, (multiple "forwards") or just isn't one of the "newest" actions on the page, the GUI shows me dragging a the method from an app mod out onto the action, but no work is done once I drop it. I must delete the data action, and re-create it. This, in the mean time, will overwrite any data action class I had defined originally.
This needs to be fixed very soon, as it has been in every build of 10g that I have dealt with.

Ok. To reproduce the bad drag and drop behavior:
Create a Misc Data page, name it "Home"
Drag a data page out, name it "A", and put stuff on it. (Doesn't need to be complex).
Drag an action out, name it "B".
Drag another action out, name it "C"
Connect a forward from "A" to "B", connect a forward from "B" to "C". Connect a forward from "C" to "Home".
Connect a "fail" forward back, from "B" to "A".
Try to drag a method off of an applicaiton module to Action "B". It should not work.

Problem Replacing pages in Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro

I have a 130 page PDF document with hundreds of links, all of which work and display in their proper position on all pages in original document. I have generated new pages to replace most existing pages & I'm having a problem with the links. Both the original 130 page document & the replacement pages are in landscape 11 X 17" format. When executing a Document|Replace pages command, the page is replaced but the links in the original document are rotated 90 degrees clockwise as if the command thinks I'm dealing with a portrait document. See below:
The above image shows the problem. The new page has replaced the original page but the original page links are rotate 90 degrees clockwise as I attempted to show with the crude red arrow. The box I'm pointing to should have remained at the lower left corner of the displayed page. I could, of course, removed the links and started all over but I'm hoping there is a simpler solution. I don't look forward to replacing over 1300 links.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Pete K.

I'm having the exact same problem, and I am not about to
redo all of the links. Did you ever receive an answer on this? I'm so beyond frustrated right now.

Can't Replace Pages (via drag and drop in Pages panel) in Acrobat 9 Pro

I'm running OS X 10.5.8, Acrobat Pro 9.1.3, PPC G5 PowerMac.
I'll have two PDFs open and I'll want to replace certain pages from document A with certain pages from document B. Rather than using the Replace Pages command from the Document menu, I prefer to visually see what I'm changing. For this reason I've always preferred the drag and drop method, where one selects a page thumbnail from one document and drops it onto a page thumbnail in another document. This only seems to be a problem in Acrobat 9. This works fine in Acrobat 7.1.1 and 8.1.6. Drag and drop will allow one to insert pages but the replacement of pages is not working. As described in Acrobat Help, under "Replace pages using a page thumbnail," I try to drop the page thumbnail onto the page number as prescribed but the page to be replaced never highlights like it should. It will only give the insertion highlight between each page, indicating that it is about to insert a page.
Other macs exhibit the same behavior -- it always works in Acrobat 7 and 8 but not 9.
Thank you for your assistance.

I'm using the Windows version of Acrobat Pro 9 and found this thread with the same problem. (Key command to replace on Windows is: Ctrl + Alt).
Anyway, to answer the how to disable the warning, go to the Acrobat Preferences. In the General category under "Warnings", check the setting "Do not show edit warnings". There should be a similar setting on the Mac version.
(Now I wish replacing pages didn't require a key command like in previous versions.)

Drag/replace pages from one document to another?

Hello,
I've recently upgraded from Acrobat 7 to 9, and a feature I've used for years (since Acrobat 5) doesn't seem to be there anymore... I have a product manual I'm editing, and have a couple of replacement pages with new/updated content. I have them side by side on my screen, and each one as the "Pages" sidebar open, and I'm trying to drag one of the replacement pages from one document, over the corresponding page in the other document.
In earlier versions of Acrobat, I was able to drag the replacement page directly over another page in the other document, and it would simply replace it. All I seem to be able to do in Acrobat 9 is insert it before or after the the "target" page, and then delete the page I want to replace.
Am I missing something here? I hope so, as the way that feature used to work was a lot more convenient! Any help is much appreciated.

Strange how they kill a good feature.
to replace the contents of a page in a Pdf with a replacement.
open PDF you want to alter.
next go to Edit menu > Replace.
when window is open select the new page (PDF) choose replace.
Especially with forms, the form info will stay put while the background info will change.
(Please note information is given by an Experienced User of Acrobat. I am not an employee of Adobe.)

Replacing pages text but preserving «form» pages... A real problem of (wasting) energy and time?

Section A: a bunch of pages with text that are having a lot of changes.
Section B: a bunch of pages with forms already approved.
(Of section B have a already a PDF file with fields, buttons, links, etc, absolutely perfect)
Problem: change in section A a lot of pages.
Two ways: one, is replacig in the new PDF —now with many changes in section A — just the PDF section B pages already right.
In this procedure pages are indeed changed but field are lost...; the second way (I am using against any logic as time and energy are related) is copy-paste all the fields and buttons from the «good» PDF of section B to the new PDF with changes already made in section A.
What's wrong?
Why the file gets sick and does not allow to do this?
Going back to export as IDML is not enough.
Inserting the perfect pages of section B in the new PDF (either removing before or later the inadequate pages) damages the TOC in the new PDF and the hyperlinks related no page numbering get dead.
And inserting/replacing new section A in the old section B claims again for a loss of links as the PDF file has been made up of two parts. (?)

No, is not at all a problem related to maintaining forms.
All the contrary.
Please be kind and read again the post, is a problem with links, with the integrity of the file, with anomalies in behavior, just with many things far beyond the user that can not be reduced to that known resource:
http://indesignsecrets.com/designing-forms-with-indesign-acrobats-replace-pages-feature-is -at-your-service.php

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