We are looking at Umbraco as a possible alternative to our current CMS which was developed in house and which although powerful, is dated now and becoming more difficult to maintain.
One really good feature which we would be loth to lose is the widget feature. Using this, we can build a widget by defining a number of inputs (eg text fields, media picker, links etc) together with the html required to output the results (using placeholders to substitute in the content entered by the web content editors).
On the page, content editors can select which (if any) widget(s) to use, enter content into the inputs defined in the widget, and the page outputs this accordingly.
In other words, without resorting to programming, we can create widgets just by defining inputs and the output html in minutes.
Users can select widgets and their input is controlled and formatted.
Simple and effective.
Is anything like this available in Umbraco without having to develop new C# code for each widget? I have looked into using macros in a rich text field, but I can't see how they can be made editable using complex data entry as described above.
Beside the Macro in richtext,
In Umbraco you can use a picker/list view data type to select some "component/widget items" and for rendering it requires some code if more than one document type is allowed, if document type is x1 do code a1.
Use (Partial view) Macro Files for reuse.
This is the closest to the "widget" function you want.
A other relatively new datatype in Umbraco is the Grid layouts, allow editors to create a Complex data, column structure with multiple data types. I suspect not comparable/useful for your "widget" function.
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I'm trying to make a form-fillable pdf where List Boxes will affect other parts of the sheet.
I have several Hidden Paragraphs in my document (hiding graphics, etc), and a List Box. I'd like to use the List Box choice as the Condition to dynamically hide and unhide the various Hidden Paragraphs.
Example: The user selects clicks on the List Box, and Cat, Dog, and Bird are listed. If the user selects "Dog" from the list, the paragraph with text and pictures of dogs is no longer hidden.
I get that I have to do Hide Paragraph if [List Box choice] != "Dog" as my Condition, I just can't figure out where to get the List Box choice. Feels like I hit a wall in searching for an answer or guide because I'm missing specific terminology (field? formula?).
I am actually trying to do the same thing, and I'm getting very frustrated by it. I developed a case management database for my law office (actually, it pretty much manages almost every aspect of the office at this point), but because we handle all kinds of different cases (criminal defense, civil litigation, probate, etc.) the information we need to track often varies. For instance, on criminal cases, we need to keep track of the sentencing guidelines scoring, the current offer from the prosecutor, prior convictions, and so on. For family law cases, we need to keep track of things like assets, parenting time schedules, etc. Putting all of these variable on one page at the same time gets very cumbersome very quickly, so I'm trying to set the form up so that when you select a case a "criminal defense", it shows the "Criminal Defense" portion of the page, and hides the "Family Law", "Civil Litigation", "Probate", and other portions.
The only way I could come up to do it was the create a variable (in this case, I called it "CaseType") and set the paragraphs to hide or be visible depending on what the variable is set to. This works great, except (a) it's awkward making users select the type of case it is for database purposes, and then making them select the type of case details to display in the form; and (more importantly) (b) the user has to type the required value of the variable into the dialog directly, which is a pain. I would much rather be able to have the type of sections that are displayed determined by the value of the case type in the database, or at the very list have the panels displayed in a dropdown list.
I came up with an idea to record a macro that would run when you pushed buttons--for example, press the "Criminal Case Panel" button and a script would run that selected the variable via double-click, entered the correct value in the dialog box, and then applied the new variable, but it seems that Writer will not let you record macros that change values in dialog boxes.
There is so much untapped potential in this aspect of the software; if the user variables could be set by forms--or if the "hidden" flags could be triggered to be hidden by the values of database variables--it would open up so many possibilities. Makes me wish I had the coding skills to work on this part of the software.
According to https://help.libreoffice.org/7.0/en-US/text/swriter/01/04090200.html, you can set up a database for Writer conditions. It looks like this would work with LibreOffice Base, where forms with list boxes can be created.
However, if you are trying to use values from a list box in a standalone Writer template or other document, then looking at that link, it does not seem possible. Writer conditions are restricted to document metadata, not the contents of the document.
One solution is to write a macro that pops up a dialog with a list box, and then when the dialog is closed, modify the Writer document based on the selected values. LibreOffice has a dialog development front end to help you set this up, and then you would need to write code to execute the dialog and do the changes. See https://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php for help writing the necessary code.
I'm trying to record a scenario of SAP CRM.
But I have a problem due to that everytime I login SAP CRM generates a new hashed token and will be used in URL like below:
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I tried to check where is the information stored, and in firebug and I found it in DOM tab:
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Is there any way to get the value from this DOM Properties using Jmeter?
Usually the choices are in:
CSS/JQuery Extractor
XPath Extractor
Regular Expression Extractor
Choose the one, you're most familiar with. Usually it is Regular Expression Extractor, however parsing HTML with regular expressions is not a good idea, moreover you will be very sensitive to DOM changes (part of the element goes to next line, attributes change positions, etc.).
So I would recommend choosing between CSS and XPath, but choose them wisely. I.e. if the number of styles on the page is not too big - go for CSS, if there are a lot of styles but the DOM itself is not very complicated - choose XPath.
What is the standard method for implementing a "wizard" using successive web forms?
I'm implementing a CGI that accepts several options, files, etc. But some of these options have dependencies to one another, and allow or require other options to be used.
For example, one type of object that needs to be initialized by the CGI can be created using:
two files of type X
two strings
one file of type Y
In my command line version, I look whether two files of type X, two strings, or one file of type Y is provided, and construct the object in the appropriate manner.
In my CGI, I'd like to do this using multiple pages or DHTML (perhaps a radio button that specifies which arguments the user wishes to provide; changing the radio button will change the form to the right).
Anyway, I have this situation for 3 main groups of arguments. I thought it would be pleasing to the user to create a 6 "page" wizard (think online dating):
Page 1:
"How would you like to specify your proteins of interest?"
radio button:
Two FASTA files
Prefix and suffix strings that match all of my proteins (and match only my proteins)
A text file containing the proteins
Page 2:
"Great! Please choose your (either 'fasta files', 'prefix and suffix strings', or 'text file')."
(appropriate web form)
Unfortunately, if the form is split over different pages, I'm not sure how the 3rd, 4th, etc. pages will know the location of the temporary folder created for the uploaded files from pages 1 and 2.
I'd really appreciate your advice; I have a good command line app, but I am having a difficult time making beautiful interface code that will do what I want. And I'd be shocked if there isn't a very easy standard way to do this with Django or some other framework; it just seems it must come up very frequently.
There's a wizard plugin for jQuery.
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/formwizard
If you don't know jQuery, it is a javascript framework for doing DHTML.
Try the demo at http://thecodemine.org/
I have to create a table in my wizard page and I want to create it using TableViewer. I'm using WindowBuilderPro for designing my wizard page. The TableViewer control is available in the palette of WindowBuilderPro but I'm not getting how to use it properly.
Has any body used the same?
Thanks a lot in advance!!
You have two ways of filling the TableViewer with contents (similar to TableViewers in JFace):
You can define a content provider and a label provider manually. A content provider has to return a set of Objects, that represent each line of the table; while the TableLabelProvider translates the returned objects to texts in the columns. The content and label providers are to set in the Properties box on the left. In this case, the resulting code should look like the following snippets: http://wiki.eclipse.org/JFaceSnippets#Snippet001TableViewer or http://wiki.eclipse.org/JFaceSnippets#Snippet007FullSelection.
On the other hand you could define JFace Data Bindings to fill the table with contents. In this case you have to define a corresponding binding, that returns the list of all contents; additionally you have to create a label provider, that works similar to the previous one.
There is also a way to fill the table content using a newer API then supported directly by WindowBuilder: you could create TableViewerColumns, and ColumnLabelProviders for each column, thus resulting in much nicer code for Label Providers (and also this API is newer, so it should be preferred for new JFace based code) - but in this case you have to create your code manually. See the JFace Table tutorial from Lars Vogel.
Additionally, if you don't know the JFace Viewer framework from before, I suggest reading the first few questions listed in the JFace FAQ to gain a better understanding of the ideas (and the tutorial from Lars Vogel is also nice for this reason).
My SSRS report contains 7 input parameters and while running my report the size of the parameter(i.e. length) is increasing.
One of my input parameter(drop down list) may contain 100 characters so the size is not constant but i want to place all parameters in 2 lines or 3 lines(in a row).
Now it is coming 2 parameters per a row
Please advice
As gbn indicates, it's not easy to change the built in report server method of presenting the parameters. SSRS likes to always use two parameters per line, presented in the order that they exist in the report (which must match the dependency order.)
So the alternatives that gbn mentions: Both involve building a "Wrapper" application: some custom code or a web page that you can code however you like to get the parameters. Then you call Reporting Services, either in code or by passing a formatted URL with your parameters. The report can be displayed in a frame, new window, or passed as a stream to where ever you'd like.
The URL access is pretty straightforward and reliable: I often use it either by hand (to create "favorites") or in code.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms153586.aspx
For what you are looking for, these might be more work than you expected, but they will be extremely flexible for your interface.
Jamie
You can certainly do that, just right click on the RDL file in the solution explorer and select view code. then move the XML tags named <ReportParameter Name="Nameofparameter"> under <ReportParameters> according to where ever you want to position. And then save it. thats it!!!
The report parameters are kind of floating in values of 2, so if u have 4 report parameters then it will be shown as 1,2 next line 3,4. Best of luck!!
Use ASP.NET for the paramaters and a ReportViewer control or URL access to render. Seriously.
I don't know of any option to present parameters any way other then the default
I believe you could try using jQuery. The report parameters are rendered in a table under a div tag with class sqlrv-ParameterContainer. Write a jQuery or JavaScript function that will extract the full innerHTML from this div ie. the table content and then extract the table row information like the <label> or <input> tags.
Create your desired table structure with <table><tr><td>{extracted sections}</td><td></td></tr></table> or leave it to your requirement...
Then just append this new HTML structure in place of the original default structure.
In jQuery it will be like
$(".sqlrv-ParameterContainer").html();
which will give you the entire table structure that comes inside the parameter. Use XML parsing and get the input controls and all. Extract these controls as-is, don't change anything.
$(".sqlrv-ParameterContainer table").remove(); // it will remove the SSRS rendered default table from DOM
$(".sqlrv-ParameterContainer table").appendChild('<table><tr>......</tr></table>'); // Append your custom html structure here....
This was something that came to my mind quickly... I would suggest you test it... :)
This doesn't help the OP with SSRS-2008 but in case it helps others - Microsoft have improved this in SSRS 2016 - parameters can now be easily managed via the GUI in Report Builder / Visual studio:
https://www.intertech.com/ssrs-parameters-2016-update/