how to populate a bean in a form?

[Peter Primrose]

Hi there,

I would like to populate an object's (bean) info into my form.

can anyone assist what the code should be look like???

I have this:

    
<html:text property="empl.name" 
value= "what should be written here???"
size="45" 
maxlength="60" />
<html:errors property="name" />

the bean is in this format:
<bean:write name="empl" property="name" />

thanks

PS:
I know I can simply populate the form from the action prior to this page, but this isn't the case since the page is a composition of couple of pages.

[Merrill Higginson]

value= "what should be written here???"

Answer: nothing

You shouldn't code a value attribute at all. The <html:text> tag automatically uses the value of the actionform property you specify.

I know I can simply populate the form from the action prior to this page, but this isn't the case since the page is a composition of couple of pages.

Whether the page is a composition of pages is irrelevant. The correct place to set the ActionForm property is in an Action class that forwards to this JSP. If this page is part of a tiles definition, that's fine. You can still populate the ActionForm prior to the page being displayed.

[Peter Primrose]

well the problem occurred when I placed the fw in a composition page:

original (worked OK)

    
<actionpath="/menuProposal"
      type="com.struts.group.proposal.MenuProposalAction"
       name="GroupProposalForm"
        scope="request"
        input="/pages/content/GroupProposalMenu.jsp"
        validate="false">
<forward name="addNewGroupProposal" path="/pages/display/GroupProposalForm.jsp"/>

<!-- this works ok -->
<forward name="editManagementGroupProposal" path="/pages/content/CGroupProposalFrom.jsp"/>
 

<forward name="errorEditGroupProposal" path="/pages/errors/errorUpdate.jsp"/>
   </action>

the fw I replaced was this

    
<forward name="editManagementGroupProposal" path="/pages/display/GroupProposalManagement.jsp"/>

and it doesn't work. I assumed it's because of the page composition.
any idea?