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Using Form Pipelets

Use form pipelets to create, clear and manipulate in-memory form instances. While templates and scripts access the data in the form instances for browser display, data manipulation or database storage, form pipelets access in-memory form instances via the Pipeline Dictionary object: CurrentForms.

These are the form pipelets:

Pipelet	Description
AcceptForm	Causes the values contained in the form instance to be transferred to the object that is bound to the form instance via the Pipeline Dictionary.
ClearFormElement	Clears the values in an entire form instance or a field, depending on the expression passed to the pipelet. For example, `Current.Forms.giftcert` resets all fields in the `giftcert` data element, while C `urrentForms.giftcert.email` resets only the `email` portion of the `giftcert`element.
InvalidateFormElements	Invalidates (makes false) the specified form element, then sets the form element's error message to the appropriate value.
SetFormOptions	Clears a form field's options, then sets the options from a map of name/value pairs contained in the `Options` input parameter. The `Begin`and `End` values specify which elements in Options to use.
UpdateFormWithObject	Creates an in-memory form instance using the attributes described in the form definition. The pipelet has two input parameters: A path expression to a form group or form list item within the in-memory data structure A path expression to the business object The pipelet binds the method listed in the form definition to the object specified as an output parameter when calling the pipelet.
UpdateObjectWithForm	Updates the specified business object with the corresponding property values contained in the in-memory form instance. This pipelet has the same two input parameters (as `UpdateFormWithObject`), both of which are required.

Example

The following shows the ClearFormElement pipelet (in the cart pipeline) and the expression used to identify which form element to clear, in this case, shipments.

This is the shipments portion of the cart form.

<!-- shipments -->
	<list formid="shipments">
		<!-- products -->
		<list formid="items" binding="productLineItems">
			<field formid="quantity" type="number" binding="quantityValue" format="0.#"/>
			<action formid="editLineItem" valid-form="false"/>
			<action formid="deleteProduct" valid-form="false"/>
			<action formid="addToWishList" valid-form="false"/>
			<action formid="addToGiftRegistry" valid-form="false"/>
		</list>
	
		<!-- gift certificates -->
		<list formid="giftcerts" binding="giftCertificateLineItems">
			<action formid="deleteGiftCertificate" valid-form="false"/>
		</list>
	</list>

The ClearFormElement pipelet resets the in-memory form instance that is created based on this portion of the form:

All parsed values (value properties) are set to their defaults (if default values are defined).
All string representations are set to an empty string.
All bound objects are removed.
All list elements are cleared.

Continue with this example: Using Interaction Continue Nodes with Forms.