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icon3.gif   Prefill attributes for new post, posted by Johan Forsberg on Tue Jan 12 11:35:55 2016 
    icon3.gif   Re: Prefill attributes for new post, posted by Andreas Luedeke on Tue Jan 12 11:48:57 2016 
    icon2.gif   Re: Prefill attributes for new post, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Jan 12 11:50:22 2016 
       icon2.gif   Re: Prefill attributes for new post, posted by Johan Forsberg on Tue Jan 12 14:05:55 2016 
Message ID: 68213     Entry time: Tue Jan 12 11:35:55 2016     Reply to this: 68214   68215
Icon: Idea  Author: Johan Forsberg  Author Email: johan.forsberg@maxlab.lu.se 
Category: Request  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: V3.1.0-2411f95 
Subject: Prefill attributes for new post 

Hi all,

I have a use case for ELOG where I need to be able to "prefill" some attributes in the "cmd=new" form, based on the URL.

To illustrate, imagine a link that takes the user directly to the form for creating a new post, with the "Subsystem" attribute already filled out to "Vacuum".

Is this possible already? I've tried naively using URL parameters (e.g. "&Subsystem=Vacuum") but that does not work. If it's not implemented, I think it would be a useful feature to have (and quite important for my particular use case). I could create a new post first using the "elog" tool, with the desired attributes set, but it makes more sense to defer the actual creation of the post to the user, i.e. he/she might change their mind before pressing "submit".

Thanks,

Johan Forsberg, MAX IV Laboratory, Sweden

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