[OFBiz] Users - Convert region to ftl

[Chris Howe]

I will change your comments to mine...


<forms
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.ofbiz.org/dtds/widget-form.xsd">
	<form name="CreateNewCustomer" <!-- This is the name
as referenced by the screen widget -->
		type="single" <!-- single, list or multi -->
		target="createCustomer" <!-- this is the uri in
controller.xml...this is the same as in an ftl as
action="<@ofbizUrl>/createCustomer</@ofbizUrl>"-->
		title="" 
		default-map-name="parameters" <!-- the name (or
location) of the map that contains the data for this 
field in the form context  -->
		default-title-style="tableheadtext" <!-- the name of
a style (like a CSS class) to apply to the title of
this field -->
		default-widget-style="inputBox" <!-- the name of a
style (like a CSS class) to apply to the widget that
the user will interact with for fields without
specification -->
		default-tooltip-style="tabletext"> <!-- the name of
a style (like a CSS class) to apply to the title of
this field when you mouse over -->

		<field name="USER_TITLE" title="User Title"/> <!--
the error is incomplete, so i'll take a stab that
"USER_TITLE" isn't a field in your database, and if it
were, it should be writtin as <field name="userTitle"
title="User Title"><display/></field> -->
	</form>
</forms>


Try that out.
-------------------Original Message----------------
Arish wrote:
Thanks for the response Chris.

While trying to implement your suggestion, I came
across this in the wiki that gives me the impression
that forms widgets are to be used for places where we
look up entities from the database. Although it
doesn't mention, the question is whether I can make
any arbitary form & add data to the database via this
form. 

Second, to implement your suggestion, here's my
understanding of how to do it.

The first part of your post was done anyways. So I
move onto the screen definition where I change the
relevant screen to point to "CustomerForms.xml". Then
I went & made the requisite file in the desired path.
My problem is to do with the understanding of this xml
file which I belive is called as the "form-widget"

Here's my definition along with notes on my
understanding of it, so far with errorneous result

--------------------------------------------------CustomerForms.xml
------------------------------------------
<forms
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.ofbiz.org/dtds/widget-form.xsd">
	<form name="CreateNewCustomer" <!-- This is the name
as referenced by the screen widget -->
		type="single" <!-- single, list or multi -->
		target="createCustomer" <!-- The simple method to
call, I'm not sure where the "MySimpleMethods.xml"
should be placed, can I provide some URI for it, if so
how & where-->
		title="" 
		default-map-name="parameters" <!-- This is the
resulting map that the method expects -->
		default-title-style="tableheadtext" <!-- Should I be
concerened -->
		default-widget-style="inputBox" <!-- for fields with
no widget-style defined, this will be used -->
		default-tooltip-style="tabletext"> <!-- Should I be
concerened -->

		<field name="USER_TITLE" title="User Title"/> <!-- I
just tried one field for starters & if I remove this,
there are no errors generated. AFAIK this is my
problem statement -->
	</form>
</forms>
--------------------------------------------------End
CustomerForms.xml
------------------------------------------

The error -      [java] 7824398[       
ModelScreen.java:103:ERROR]

which I'm sure has to do with my form-widget xml
definiton

Please excuse my ignorance if any, I'm still a novice
& the entire framework is just too overwhelming for me
right now

Thanks
Ashish Hareet




-----------------------Original
Message-----------------
To convert that form, it would perhaps be better to
use the form widget instead of freemarker.

In "
<component://party/webapp/partymgr/WEB-INF/controller.xml%22>
you should change the view map from:

    <view-map name="newcustomer" type="region"/>
to
    <view-map name="newcustomer" type="screen" page="
component://party/widget/partymgr/CommonScreens.xml#newcustomer"/
<component://party/widget/partymgr/CommonScreens.xml#newcustomer%22/>>

then in party/widget/partymgr/CommonScreens.xml add
the screen "newcustomer"  should look something like
this.
..................................
    </screen>
	    <screen name="createnewcustomer">
        <section>
            <widgets>
                <decorator-screen
name="main-decorator">
                    <decorator-section name="body">
                          <container>
				<include-form name="CreateNewCustomer" location="
component://party/webapp/partymgr/WEB-INF/customer/CustomerForms.xml"/
<component://party/webapp/partymgr/WEB-INF/customer/CustomerForms.xml%22/>>
                          </container>
                    </decorator-section>
                </decorator-screen>
            </widgets>
        </section>
    </screen>
.....................................
Then create a customer directory under
party/webapp/partymgr/
and then create a file "CustomerForms.xml" which
should look something like this:
.....................................
<forms xmlns:xsi="
<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance%22> 
        xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="
<http://www.ofbiz.org/dtds/widget-form.xsd%22>>
    <form name="CreateNewCustomer" type="single" 
            target="createnewcustomer" title=""
default-map-name="prodCatalog"
            default-title-style="tableheadtext"
default-widget-style="inputBox"
default-tooltip-style="tabletext">


enter all your fields  ( I don't believe auto-field
service is necessary, could someone back me up?)

    </form>
</forms
...............................
Because this is sending all of the variables to a
simple-method you should just need to have fields with
names that
correspond to the names in the simple-method. 
Although if you wanted to go all out you could also
convert the simple method
to a service and use nested forms (i haven't used
nested forms yet, so i'm not sure how they work in
detail).

I hope I spelled this out clear, if I haven't, I'd be
happy to clarify.

,Chris


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