Prefill form-field

[SPQRInc]

Hi,

I am working on a little mail-part of my component. In my edit-view there's an editor, which is used to format the email.

Well, I would like to add a list-field with different possible signatures. If I click on a signature, this signature should be filled into the editor.

Is that possible?

[NathanHawks]

Yes, via Javascript. E.g. if your dropdown has id="signature" and your textarea has id="message" you'd do something akin to:

msg = document.getElementById('message');
sig = document.getElementById('signature');
sigTxt = sig.options[sig.selectedIndex].value;
msgTxt = msg.value;
newMsg = msgTxt + "\n--\n" + sigTxt;
msg.value = newMsg;

You'd put that into a function to be called via the select's onChange.

[SPQRInc]

Hi nathan...

Thank you very much...

Well, I created a list like this:

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		<field
			name="signature" 
			type="list"
			label="" 
			description=""
			class="inputbox small" 
			size="1" 
			default="1"
			onchange="test();" >	
			<option value="test">Test</option>
			<option value="test2">Test2</option>
		</field>		

In my layout (edit.php) I added the following code:

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<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Beginning of JavaScript -

function test (textstring) {
msg = document.getElementById('message');
sig = document.getElementById('signature');
sigTxt = sig.options[sig.selectedIndex].value;
msgTxt = msg.value;
newMsg = msgTxt + "\n--\n" + sigTxt;
msg.value = newMsg;

alert (textstring) 

}

// - End of JavaScript - -->
</SCRIPT>
<form 	action="<?php echo JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_bestia&layout=edit&id='.(int) $this->item->id); ?>" 
		method="post"
		name="adminForm" 
		id="adminForm" 
		class="form-validate">

		<?php echo JLayoutHelper::render('joomla.edit.title_alias', $this); ?>


...

If change the list, I'm getting this error in the error console:

[Error] TypeError: 'null' is not an object (evaluating 'sig.options')
test (index.php, line 221)
onchange (index.php, line 307)
trigger (jquery.min.js, line 3)
trigger (jquery-migrate.min.js, line 2)
(anonyme Funktion) (jquery.min.js, line 3)
each (jquery.min.js, line 2)
each (jquery.min.js, line 2)
trigger (jquery.min.js, line 3)
result_select (chosen.jquery.min.js, line 1)
search_results_mouseup (chosen.jquery.min.js, line 1)
(anonyme Funktion) (chosen.jquery.min.js, line 1)
dispatch (jquery.min.js, line 3)
handle (jquery.min.js, line 3)

I'm not really a JS-guru... Maybe you can help me to find the error?

[NathanHawks]

I apologize, I have my own projects to take breaks from

[SPQRInc]

No problem...

If you find some time you maybe could help me out