set_element_properties for thor form view

[Steve]

$grad_year = $this->get_element_name_from_label('High School
Graduation Year');
$this->change_element_type($grad_year, 'year');
$this->set_element_properties($grad_year, array
('num_years_after_today' => 4, 'num_years_before_today' => 4,));

Hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone can tell me why the set_element_properties
method isn't working in the above code. I've done successfully done
this before in other form views on the textdatetime type.

Much appreciated,
Steve

[Matt Ryan]

The code looks OK to me -- nothing obvious that would keep things from
working. The first thing I would check would be to make sure that my
IP was getting notices, though, because
$this->get_element_name_from_label('High School Graduation Year'); is
inherently fragile -- any change to the label and the method will
return false.

Not really a solution so much as an FYI: you should be able to do the
same thing in two lines:

$grad_year = $this->get_element_name_from_label('High School Graduation Year');

$this->change_element_type($grad_year, 'year',
array('num_years_after_today' => 4, 'num_years_before_today' => 4,));

-- Matt

[Steve]

Thanks Matt. When I used the condensed code you provided it worked
like a charm. I wonder why set_element_properties failed.

Steve

On Oct 23, 12:18 am, Matt Ryan <matt.d.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The code looks OK to me -- nothing obvious that would keep things from
> working. The first thing I would check would be to make sure that my
> IP was getting notices, though, because
> $this->get_element_name_from_label('High School Graduation Year'); is
> inherently fragile -- any change to the label and the method will
> return false.
>
> Not really a solution so much as an FYI: you should be able to do the
> same thing in two lines:
>
> $grad_year = $this->get_element_name_from_label('High School Graduation Year');
> $this->change_element_type($grad_year, 'year',
> array('num_years_after_today' => 4, 'num_years_before_today' => 4,));
>
> -- Matt
>

[Matt Ryan]

I agree, it's odd, and might represent a bug. If you can identify in
what cases it seems to be failing -- is it just that plasmature type,
or is it some other condition in the form? -- we'd love it if you
could describe the issue in the issue tracker on the Google Code site.

Matt

[Steve]

OK. I'll do some more testing to try and narrow down the cases. Then
I'll submit it via the issue tracker.


Thanks for the help,
Steve