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How to reset form

 
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Hi Fellas

I am using the normal ActionForm class.

This is the design flow of how it is setup.

There is a link on the homepage. When this link is clicked, the POPULATE_FORM_ACTION class is called which prepopulates the drop down menus etc of the form.

Now this form has two buttons, the submit and the reset. When I click the reset button, I want the same action class (POPULATE_FORM_ACTION) to be called which will show the form with default values and all the values entered by the user should be cleared.

But I am not able to do this. The values entered by the user are not cleared.

I was told to change the scope to request - but it has to be session for this project. I have a reset method in which i initialize all fields to null. But that doesnt help either.

I am sure its a very simple problem cos every form does have a submit and reset functionality - but I dont know why i'm having problems

Thanks
gublooo
 
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Are you using <html:reset ... /> for the reset button? I know that is usually my problem when buttons are not working as expected.
 
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Hi

I tried html:reset button but the weird thing is nothing happens when u click on that button . I mean even the page does not get submitted and the button is inside the form tag - so i'm not sure why that happens....

Gublooo
 
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You don't want html:reset for what you're doing. html:reset won't submit the form because it performs a browser functionality of resetting values to what they loaded as. You need a regular old submit button.
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