[albatross-users] setting value field

[Eric S. Johansson]

over the past couple of days, you ever patient folks have seen me butt my head 
against various parts of albatrosson.  Here's another one.

In the Web interface, I use multiple buttons to trigger different events.  One 
button toggles sorting order (ascending/descending), another triggers the 
process for training which messages or spam or not spam.

The only button I do anything fancy with is the sorting order button. 
Originally, I changed the value of the button to reflect the sorting order and 
used the value of the button as state information when toggling to the other 
sort.  Since the <al-input> tag doesn't seem to support variable values except 
in special circumstances, I'm a bit hosed.

I'm also trying to puzzle out how to deal with page initial state versus page 
after processing button results.  So far, I'm some some context.local variables 
that come and go depending on whether or not it's the first time through the 
page templates.

puzzled but still persisting,

---eric