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Comment on XForms model to model communication by When MVC becomes a burden for XForms – XML London 2013 | Eric van der Vlist

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:33:10 +0000

[…] Communications between the master form and the subform are done using either in memory submissions (ContextSubmissionHandler identified by a model: pseudo protocol), the instanceOfModel() function which gives access to instances from other models or custom events passing context information. […]

Comment on Modularizing forms by When MVC becomes a burden for XForms – XML London 2013 | Eric van der Vlist

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:33:00 +0000

[…] are described, in the betterFORM documentation, as “a way to avoid redundancies and keep the documents […]

Comment on Zaphod – betterFORM As Service (Cross Context Environment) by Farah Zareen

Farah Zareen — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:07:14 +0000

Hi,

We are trying to use Betterform Zaphod to convert our Betterforms XForms into HTML. I am having an issue here – I am initially on a page with URI: /forms/home which has few submit buttons, each with a different resource-uri. method=”get”, and submission replace=”all”. When i click a button from “/forms/home”, i submit a “GET” request to a resource-uri called “/forms/getProfile”and get an xForms response back. But, betterForm-Full.js seems to be handling replace=”all’ by invoking fluxProcessor._handleBetterFormReplaceAll() that does a: window.open(window.location.href, “_self”);

In my case, window.location.href will be /forms/home, but i need to submit a request to /forms/getProfile. Since it is trying to send request to location.href, i am getting incorrect response back. So, i have a few questions here:

1. Why is it trying to submit to window.location.href. Based on the application, window.location.href could be different from the action/resource-uri the user wants to submit the request to.

2. Why is it making this second request to window.location.href when the first request on submit actually gets the response back? This is causing my application to make two requests – first one to the resource-uri of the submitted target (button clicked), and other through window.open(window.location.href, _self)

3. Is there a way to avoid this second request, if not how can i override window.location.href with the resource-uri of the button i clicked

Any responses would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Arshad

Comment on Modularizing forms by joernturner

joernturner — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:05:16 +0000

Please use our mailinglist for such questions: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/betterform-users

Comment on Modularizing forms by Mark R. Salamon

Mark R. Salamon — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:46:10 +0000

perhaps this is the wrong place to ask, but can you do cascading dropdowns with betterform?

Comment on Aeronautical Information Services (AIS) and XForms by joernturner

joernturner — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:50:15 +0000

We used XSLT to build a generator that converted the schemas into xforms. This was not a single-step transform but several transformations building on each other. This normally can’t be done without some ‘special case’ handling. E.g. there are constructs in some schemas that cannot be automatically (or generically) be transformed into a UI. In these cases you have to help the generator by adding special templates. Building such generator is an incrementatl process which make take some days but that effort is still not comparable to hand-coding all forms. If you’d like to learn more please don’t hesitate to contact us at info at betterform dot de.

Comment on Aeronautical Information Services (AIS) and XForms by Christian Bosson (@christianbosson)

Christian Bosson (@christianbosson) — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:11:28 +0000

Very interesting post, thank you !
I have a question : you said “The whole user interface (…) is generated from the XML Schema resulting in (…) separate XForms documents (…)”. How did you do that ? Is it a generic or automated method to do it ?
I am currently evaluating XForms with a sample application, for which I have defined a relatively complex XML Schema. I find very painful to have to write instances, bindings and UI elements for each complex types of my schema in my forms (and to update them when my schema is evolving !).
I would be very interested to know a little more about your experience on that problem.
Thanks in advance !

Comment on What’s XForms authoring? by Madhav (@madhavb)

Madhav (@madhavb) — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:35:58 +0000

Is the experimental XForm editor bundled in the limegreen-4.1 installer? I am able to see the small circle which when I click opens it in browser for view (not editable). And there is no option for editor, am I missing something here?

Comment on Using Subforms with betterFORM by rockeyjohn999

rockeyjohn999 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:47:56 +0000

Nice article.Pros and cons are explained very well. We can divide the sample form into sub forms.Sb forms are just like X forms. Free sample forms

Comment on What’s XForms authoring? by joernturner

joernturner — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:29:20 +0000

You cannot open it from within a form but from the betterFORM dashboard. There are 2 little circles on the right side of each form document. When you hover the left one of these you should see a very little icon. Click it to open the editor.