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Hi,

I was wondering how to make a value in a <select> in dafault when i enter in a jsp page.

eg.<html:select property="periodEnd">
<html ptionsCollection name="statSearch" property="misReportPeriodVec" value="periodEnd" label="periodEnd"/>
</html:select>

How can i make a particular value of periodEnd to be default?

thanks

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Try this:

in your formbean you have a data-member periodEnd where the value will be put in that is selected in the combobox when user submit form.

private [datatype] periodEnd = value_from_optionCollection; (use the value not the label)

and then it should work.
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Hi Roel,

Thanks for you suggestion, but i was more interested when the user came to the jsp, i want the a certain value of periodEnd to be selected(or defaulted) and then the user can select other values.

Thanks.

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Hi Anil,

You have a property in the ActionForm corressponding to the dropdown name, before coming to the jsp , you set this property value to whatever has to be selected.

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Hi Shankar,
I tried it but it does not seem to work.

Do you think i need to change the order of the values of the vector so that the default value is at the top of the list?

Thanks

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work out this problem with the answer I gave to your other post.

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Originally posted by AnilPrakash Raju:
I tried it but it does not seem to work.



Post the code that you tried and think should work. The suggested solutions by the two posters above are correct.
 
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Hi,

in the action just before going to the jsp, i set the field in the actionForm.

code:

statSearchForm.setPeriodEndingString(statSearch.getPeriodEndingString());

the bean statSearch also contains a vector having the values of the <select> tag.


in the jsp :
<html:select property="periodEndingString">
<html ptions name="statSearch" property="periodEndVec"/>
</html:select>

thanks
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I guess that you make the change to statSearchForm, but that another instance is created when the jsp-page is called.

change into your struts-config.xml the action that corresponds with your statSearchForm the attribute scope (default: request) into session. so you've got something like this:



another possibility is initialising your periodEndingString into your StatSearchForm, something like this


So in each instance made of this form your data member periodEndingString will be initialized with "blahblahblah"
[ August 09, 2004: Message edited by: Roel De Nijs ]

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Originally posted by AnilPrakash Raju:

statSearchForm.setPeriodEndingString(statSearch.getPeriodEndingString());



Check these:

1. Is statSearch.getPeriodEndingString() returning a valid option value?

2. Are the options successfully populated in the response?
 
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Hi,

To your ques1- statSearch.getPeriodEndingString() is returning a valid option value.

And to your ques2- The options are successfully populated in the response.

I am able to maintain the selected option once it is selected.

I am no longer using optionsCollection, just options(that should not make a difference i think ??)

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