Taglib documentation for tag mak:searchForm#
Description#
Produces a form to search for records in the database.
Search forms are in principal related to mak:forms, i.e. attributes allowed there are also allowed in search forms. Additionally, the following attributes are defined.

Attributes#
Name | Required | Runtime expression | Description | Comments |
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in | true | false | The MDD to search in
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Mandatory
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resultLabel | false | true | name of the label of the results, used in the resultList
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Optional. Defaults to "o"
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name | true | true | Name of the form
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As in mak:forms, but mandatory. Name is used in connection with mak:resultList, and is the prefix for several pageContext attributes set, which can be used to perform searching manually.
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message | false | true | The message that is displayed in the response page
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Defaults to "Search done!".
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action (from mak:form) |
false | true | the response page of the form
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Mandatory if a <mak:action> is absent
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method (from mak:form) |
false | true | the HTTP method (get or post)
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Defaults to get
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db (from mak:form) |
false | true | The makumba database to connect to. The format is Host_SQLEngineType_DatabaseName If not present, the default database is used. See database configuration and lookup.
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Cannot contain attributes, for now. The default database is chosen if this argument is not set. Can only be set for top-level (root) query tags Can be a Rtexpr <%= ...%>
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target (from mak:form) |
false | true | Form-specific HTML tag attribute
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The content is copied to the resulting <form...> tag. Careful with (escaping) quotes.
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onReset (from mak:form) |
false | true | ||
onSubmit (from mak:form) |
false | true | ||
styleClass (from mak:form) |
false | true | Generic HTML tag attribute
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results in class="..."
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style (from mak:form) |
false | true | Generic HTML tag attribute
(generic) |
The content is copied to the resulting html tag. Careful with (escaping) quotes.
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title (from mak:form) |
false | true | ||
onClick (from mak:form) |
false | true | ||
onDblClick (from mak:form) |
false | true | ||
onKeyDown (from mak:form) |
false | true | ||
onKeyUp (from mak:form) |
false | true | ||
onKeyPress (from mak:form) |
false | true | ||
onMouseDown (from mak:form) |
false | true | ||
onMouseUp (from mak:form) |
false | true | ||
onMouseMove (from mak:form) |
false | true | ||
onMouseOut (from mak:form) |
false | true | ||
onMouseOver (from mak:form) |
false | true |
See also#
mak:resultList, mak:criterion, mak:matchMode, mak:searchField
Examples#
<mak:searchForm in="company.Company" name="searchCompany"> ... </mak:searchForm>
