is the add_associated_link supposed to do this?

[patrick]

Looking at the generated source:
<input
id="project_release_attributes__new__0__disc_attributes__new____number__casting"
name="project[release_attributes][new][0][disc_attributes][new][-1]
[casting]" size="8" type="text">

The id and name do not match (the ID is missing the -1).. In fact all
of the partials added after the first have the same id... Is this
right?

-patrick

[James Golick]

yeah, I konw about this issue.

I just wasn't sure how to solve it, and it wasn't causing anybody any trouble, so I left it in.

Any ideas?

[patrick]

Hi James...

Well-- after a lot of experimentation, the solution I came up with was
this: (and mind you it is far from elegant)

Inside the attribute_fu 's associated_form_helper.rb, I added an
additional page << "fix_attribute_fu():"

@template.link_to_function name do |page|
page << "if (typeof #{variable} == 'undefined') #{variable} =
0;"
page << "new Insertion.Bottom('#{container}', new
Template("+form_builder.render_associated_form(object, :fields_for =>
{ :javascript => true }, :partial => partial).to_json
+").evaluate({'number': --#{variable}}))"
page << "fix_attribute_fu();"
end

....

Then in my application.js file, I put all of my model's column names
into an array, and set a disc_id variable...

form_name_list = new
Array("menuadn_id","vendor_id","designer_id","wts_id","team_id","wave","sku","textless","transemail","casting","transreceived","menupreapprove","menuapprove","dueauthoring","etaauthoring","approvemenu","shipimage");
form_id_header = "release_disc_attributes__new__";
disc_id = 0;

function fix_attribute_fu() {
disc_id ++;
for (f = 0; f < form_name_list.length; f++) {
var id_to_get = form_id_header+"__number__"+form_name_list[f];
form_element = $(id_to_get)
form_element.value = today;
previous_form_element = previousHTMLElementSibling(form_element);
new_id = form_id_header+"__fixed"+disc_id+"_"+form_name_list[f];
previous_form_element.htmlFor = new_id;
form_element.id = new_id;
}
}

function previousHTMLElementSibling(n) { while (n = n.previousSibling)
{ if (n.nodeType == 1) break; } return n; };

.. and this gives me outputted source like:
<li>
<label for="release_disc_attributes__new____fixed2_sku">SKU locked:</
label>
<input id="release_disc_attributes__new____fixed2_sku"
name="release[disc_attributes][new][-2][sku]" size="8" type="text">
</li>

...

I know this approach is probably less than ideal, but it was the best
I could come up with... Anyway, everything works great, and I can
grab elements by id freely...

-patrick

On Jun 19, 6:18 am, "James Golick" <jamesgol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> yeah, I konw about this issue.
>
> I just wasn't sure how to solve it, and it wasn't causing anybody any
> trouble, so I left it in.
>
> Any ideas?
>