Re: [Xsltforms-support] Form data modification with Javascript

[Ivan P. <ipo...@ma...>]

Hello Alain!

 > Can you tell me how many developers are using XSLTForms?

We wrote a software product that utilizes XForms for data collection. In 
some aspects our product resembles MS Infopath. So we have two kind of 
developers:

1) those who write Java/GWT code for the "platform" and are not very 
familiar with XForms, there are two/three of us who are continuing to 
develop this product (not full-time at the moment).

2) and those who write XHTML/XForms "templates" for our platform --- 
these people are not developers, they only have been taught HTML, XForms 
and very basic Javascript. AFAIK, there are 5 people of this kind, and 
the "form templates" they write are being utilized in half a dozen of 
projects in different fields.

 > Have a look at XFControl.prototype.valueChanged method: each time a node
 > value is modified by a control, it is added in a list maintained for
 > each model. This list is then read when refreshing.

We will have to take some time to investigate this and then we will send 
you a feedback. Thank you for suggestion!

Regards,

Ivan Ponomarev.



On 20.01.2011 0:07, COUTHURES Alain wrote:
> Hello Ivan,
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are using xsltForms for quite a while. Great idea and a great
>> implementation. Still our developers constantly face several problems
>> that I can't solve.
> Can you tell me how many developers are using XSLTForms?
>> We sometimes need to select value from a huge list, stored in the
>> database. Traditional comboboxes and scrollboxes is not a solution in
>> this case, because the whole list of values (tens of thousands of
>> records) can't be placed in a webpage source. We have written special
>> Javascript (GWT) code, that shows a dialogue that allows one to filter
>> and pick a value from a huge list using AJAX techniques. The dialogue
>> saves chosen value (id and name) into the instance and refreshes the
>> whole form (xforms.ready = false; xforms.refresh(); xforms.ready =
>> true;). The problem of such an approach is that this type of refresh
>> sometimes fails to refresh constraints. The question is: what is the
>> most reliable way to automate insertion of data into form fields using
>> Javascript?
> Have a look at XFControl.prototype.valueChanged method: each time a node
> value is modified by a control, it is added in a list maintained for
> each model. This list is then read when refreshing.
>
> Thank you for your feedbacks!
>
> -Alain
>
>