Accessing container form from a field

[robballantyne]

It's probably simple but driving me mad.

I have a nested form with a partial inside, from the partial i naturally have $field available, but I would like to figure out how to identify (and get data from) another field in that form. Is there a simple way to do this?

[bennothommo]

@robballantyne You could just query the model directly for the data if you know the field name.

For example, if the field is for the property name, you could just use $model->name in your partial.

[robballantyne]

Sure,

Re attached screenshot, I wanted to get the data from the richeditor (or any other field/widget) in the 'main' tab into the 'preview' tab without having to save the model.

I now think I can just do this by refreshing the form and the data will be available in $model anyway, even if I haven't saved - If thats correct, I just need to apply some logic to do a form refresh when the preview tab is activated.

Ps. excuse the ui, im developing for both platforms.

[LukeTowers]

@robballantyne you could try using the dependsOn option to trigger an update of your partial field based on the richeditor field.

[robballantyne]

@LukeTowers dependsOn is the right way, thanks. Simple things escape me at times.

I've gone for a manual refresh, though using a checkbox as my richeditor wasnt causing a refresh. Also I probably don't want to re-load the whole view on every keystroke while it's out of view.

Happy with the results - Thanks again!

[LukeTowers]

@robballantyne your richeditor looks like a custom integration, in which case you need to make sure you're triggering the change event on the element that holds your data to trigger the dependsOn and trigger functionality

[LukeTowers]

Since you'd have to do that custom anyways, there's no reason why you couldn't debounce the event and only trigger it after x seconds of no typing.