[Arp] Populating a form

[Rich Rodecker]

yeah, usually one big load in the beginning, at least for the data
that isnt going to change through a visit to the site (like a product
list or whatever).  I then stick all that data into a ModelLocator,
and retrieve it when necessary.




On 1/23/06, Chris Velevitch <chris.velevitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/24/06, Sam Shrefler <sshrefler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How do you usually take care of prepopulating this data?  Do you usually
> > have 1 call to the service and return all the data in one big valueobject?
> > Do you have multiple calls and just make sure each of them returns?
>
> I have 1 call and return one big valueobject because of the latency of
> multiple calls.
>
> > Also, do you usually have a dispatchEvent in your onLoad function like
> > dispatchEvent ( { type: "populateMyForm" } );
>
> Usually, it depends on whether the data life is the same the form life
> or the data needs to exist longer.
>
>
> Chris
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> Chris Velevitch
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