I have a feature which is provisioning 1 document library and 2 custom lists. A folder is included for each list containing the schema.xml for that list. Each folder also contains the associated forms (AllItems, DispForm, EditForm, NewForm, etc.). Everything deploys/works correctly but it seems a little redundant having the same forms copied into each list's folder. There is nothing special about these lists - the are basically a default doc library/generic list with additional fields provided through new content types (derived from Item/Document).
As far as I can tell these forms are pretty generic. Are there pre-installed forms that I can reference from my list so I don't have to deploy all of these extra files? Is there any reason I would not want to do this?
Update - moving xml in comment to original question for readability:
<Forms>
<Form Type="DisplayForm" Url="Forms/DispForm.aspx" WebPartZoneID="Main"/>
<Form Type="EditForm" Url="Forms/EditForm.aspx" WebPartZoneID="Main"/>
<Form Type="NewForm" Url="Forms/Upload.aspx" WebPartZoneID="Main"/>
<Form Type="NewFormDialog" Path="EditDlg.htm">
....
There are virtual defaults that are used if you don't specify a concrete page.
All lists use these template defaults unless you use a tool like SharePoint designer to customize the page. Then the template is used to create the concrete page and you can customize the look for a particular list without affecting others.
For my custom definitions, I use
<List>
...
<MetaData>
...
<Forms>
<Form Type="DisplayForm" Url="DispForm.aspx" SetupPath="pages\form.aspx" WebPartZoneID="Main" />
<Form Type="EditForm" Url="EditForm.aspx" SetupPath="pages\form.aspx" WebPartZoneID="Main" />
<Form Type="NewForm" Url="NewForm.aspx" SetupPath="pages\form.aspx" WebPartZoneID="Main" />
</Forms>
</MetaData>
</List>
If you have no reason to customize the out of the box version of these forms, you can use the virtual form and not deploy copies.
Related
A have problem with accessing my custom components (which are used as parts of the form).
Here is the story:
I have dynamic form which have few modes of work. Each mode can be selected and loaded into form body with AJAX. It looks like that (template):
<t:form t:id = "form">
<p class= "calcModeTitle">
${message:modeLabel}: <select t:id="modeSelect"
t:type="select"
t:model="modesModel"
t:value="selectedMode"
t:blankOption="NEVER"
t:encoder="modeEncoder"
t:zone = "modeZone"
/>
</p>
<div class="horizontal_tab">
<t:errors/>
</div>
<t:zone t:id="modeZone" id="modeZone" t:update="show">
<t:if test="showCompany">
<t:delegate to="block:companyBlock" />
</t:if>
<t:if test="showPersonal">
<t:delegate to="block:personalBlock" />
</t:if>
<t:if test="showMulti">
<t:delegate to="block:multiBlock" />
</t:if>
</t:zone>
<t:block id="companyBlock">
<t:modes.CompanyMode t:id="company"/>
</t:block>
<t:block id="personalBlock">
<t:modes.PersonalMode t:id="personal" />
</t:block>
<t:block id="multiBlock">
<t:modes.MultiMode t:id="multi" />
</t:block>
<div class="horizontal_tab">
<input type="submit" value="${message:submit_label}" class="submitButton thickBtn"/>
</div>
</t:form>
AJAX works pretty well and form changes accordingly the "modeSelect" state. But i run into problem when submitting the form. I have in class definition hooks for components placed as:
//----form elements
#Component(id = "form")
private Form form;
#InjectComponent
private CompanyMode company;
#InjectComponent
private PersonalMode personal;
#InjectComponent
private MultiMode multi;
where *Mode classes are my own components, containing form elements and input components. I planned to get access to them during validation, and check values supplied by user with form, but when I am trying to reach anything from them I've got nullPointerException - it seems that component are not initialized in my class definition of form. On the other hand form component is injected properly (I am able to write some error for example). I am a bit lost now. How to properly inject my components to class page containing the form?
Dynamic forms in tapestry are a bit complicated. Tapestry passes a t:formdata request parameter which contains the serialized form entities. This is then used serverside in the POST to re-hydrate initial form state. This must be kept up-to-date with what the client sees.
If you want to add dynamic content to a form via ajax, you will need to use the FormInjector. You might want to take a look at the source code for the AjaxFormLoop to see an example.
If you want to render hidden form fragments and make them visible based on clientside logic, you can use the FormFragment
From tapestry guide:
A block does not normally render; any component or contents you put
inside a block will not ordinarily be rendered. However, by injecting
the block you have precise control over when and if the content
renders.
Try to use here either "t:if" or "t:delegate".
Something like this:
<t:zone t:id="modeZone" id="modeZone" t:update="show">
<t:delegate to="myBlock" />
</t:zone>
<t:block t:id="companyBlock">
<t:modes.CompanyMode t:id="company"/>
</t:block>
<t:block t:id="personalBlock">
<t:modes.PersonalMode t:id="personal" />
</t:block>
<t:block t:id="multiBlock">
<t:modes.MultiMode t:id="multi" />
</t:block>
java:
#Inject
private Block companyBlock, personalBlock, multiBlock;
public Block getMyBlock(){
if (getShowCompany()) return companyBlock;
if (getShowPersonal()) return personalBlock;
return multiBlock;
}
I posted this on the Umbraco forum but to no avail, and wondered if the community at large might be able to offer some advice. We are upgrading our site from 4.0.3 to 4.6. I can't deploy it though as the macros aren't rendering - the error states the following about 30 times:
UmbracoPage Aliases must be unique, and element with alias 'data' has already been loaded!
And also says:
System.Web.HttpException: Multiple controls with the same ID 'ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl28' were found. Trace requires that controls have unique IDs.
I tried deleting the contents of my data file but this didn't help.. I also have 22 duplicate 'homepage' templates that Umbraco won't delete (possibly an issue for another post - or it could be related!).
The error message tells you the issue basically:
"Multiple controls with the same ID..." or in potentially no ID
You most likely have two Macros (of same type/alias) on the page and you are not specifying an ID for them.
Example:
<umbraco:Macro Alias="TestMacro" runat="server" />
<umbraco:Macro Alias="TestMacro" runat="server" />
If you want to render the same macro twice on the same page.
Then you must give them a unique ID (see below):
<umbraco:Macro ID="macro1" Alias="TestMacro" runat="server" />
<umbraco:Macro ID="macro2" Alias="TestMacro" runat="server" />
I'm using OpenRasta to create a Survey application.
I have a SurveyResource that is accessible at /surveys/{id} and editable at /surveys/{id}/edit
I'd now like to add questions to the survey, as that is the point of a survey, but I'm not sure what the most restful way of doing this is and how to set it up in OR.
I'm thinking I should have a QuestionResource (that has details of the question type, question text, etc) and it should be posted to /surveys/{id}/questions and handled by a question handler, but I can't work out how to configure OR.
I've pushed my project onto github at https://github.com/oharab/OpenSurvey/tree/add_question_to_survey
Can anyone help me?
Ben
it depends on the way you want to model your resources. It's perfectly possible that you'd never explicitly provide access to a single question, and would modify the entire survey document, like so:
PUT /surveys/123
<survey>
<link rel="update" href="/surveys/123" method="PUT"
type="application/vnd.mycorp.survey+xml" />
<question id="age">
<label>How old are you?</label>
<select>
<option>0 - 5</option>
<option>6 - 10</option>
<option>10 - 13</option>
</select>
</question>
</survey>
If you go this route, you could even use HTML, or HTML 5 for your content so it's easy to consume by clients. Now you're just modifying the entire survey document at once.
Alternatively, you might want to separately address each question, giving them an individual URI, which I think is what you're talking about, like so:
GET /survey/123
<survey>
<link rel="add-question" href="/survey/123/questions"
type="application/vnd.mycorp.surveyquestion+xml" method="POST" />
<question>
<link rel="delete" href="/questions/123-age" method="DELETE" />
<link rel="update" href="/questions/123-age" type="application/vnd.mycorp.surveyquestion+xml" method="PUT" />
<label>How old are you?</label>
<select>
<option>0 - 5</option>
<option>6 - 10</option>
<option>10 - 13</option>
</select>
</question>
</survey>
Neither of these is more RESTful than the other, the difference is only in granularity of call. If you need the granularity of the latter, then configure yourself a separate handler per resource as in
using(OpenRastaConfiguration.Manual)
{
ResourceSpace.Has.ResourcesOfType<Survey>().AtUri("/survey/{id}").HandledBy<SurveyHandler>();
ResourceSpace.Has.ResourcesOfType<Question>().AtUri("/questions/{id}").HandleBy<QuestionHandler>();
}
Can anyone provide a dummy guide \ code snippets on how to create a front end form in Magento that posts data to a controller action.
Im trying to write a variant of the contact us from. (I know its easy to modify the contact us form, as outlined here). I'm trying to also create a feedback form with additional fields.
Given this basic form:
<form action="<?php echo $this->getFormAction(); ?>" id="feedbackForm" method="post">
<div class="input-box">
<label for="name"><?php echo Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Name') ?> <span class="required">*</span></label><br />
<input name="name" id="name" title="<?php echo Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Name') ?>" value="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($this->helper('contacts')->getUserName()) ?>" class="required-entry input-text" type="text" />
</div>
<div class="button-set">
<p class="required"><?php echo Mage::helper('contacts')->__('* Required Fields') ?></p>
<button class="form-button" type="submit"><span><?php echo Mage::helper('contacts')->__('Submit') ?></span></button>
</div>
</form>
What are the basic step I need to take to get inputted name to a controller action for processing?
If any one is interested, I solved this by building my own module which was heavily based on the Magento_Contacts module.
Here are some links that helped me figure things out.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/custom_module_with_custom_database_table
http://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/magento-custom-emails/
To make $this->getFormAction() return the URL to your custom controller, you have two options:
call setFormAction() somewhere else on the block.
use a custom block type that implements getFormAction().
(1) is what happens in Mage_Contacts_IndexController::indexAction(), but (2) is the cleaner approach and I'm going to explain it in detail:
Create a custom module
app/etc/modules/Stack_Form.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<modules>
<Stack_Form>
<active>true</active>
<codePool>local</codePool>
</Stack_Form>
</modules>
</config>
app/code/local/Stack/Form/etc/config.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<modules>
<Stack_Form>
<version>0.1.0</version>
</Stack_Form>
</modules>
<frontend>
<routers>
<stack_form>
<use>standard</use>
<args>
<module>Stack_Form</module>
<frontName>feedback</frontName>
</args>
</stack_form>
</routers>
</frontend>
<global>
<blocks>
<stack_form>
<class>Stack_Form_Block</class>
</stack_form>
</blocks>
</global>
</config>
This configuration registers the stack_form block alias for own blocks and the feedback front name for own controllers.
Create custom block
app/code/local/Stack/Form/Block/Form.php
class Stack_Form_Block_Form extends Mage_Core_Block_Template
{
public function getFormAction()
{
return $this->getUrl('stack_form/index/post`);
}
}
Here we implemented getFormAction() to generate the URL for our custom controller (the result will be BASE_URL/feedback/index/post).
Create custom controller
app/code/local/Stack/Form/controllers/IndexController.php
class Stack_Form_IndexController extends Mage_Contacts_IndexController
{
public function postAction()
{
// your custom post action
}
}
If the form should behave exactly like the contact form, just with a different email template and additional form fields, there are two solutions that I have outlined at https://magento.stackexchange.com/q/79602/243 where only one of them actually requires a custom controller action to send the form:
If you look at the contacts
controller
used in the form action, you will find that
the transactional template is taken directly from the configuration
all POST data is passed to the template (as template variable data), so that you can add any additional fields to the form
template and use them in the email template. But validation is hard
coded for "name", "comment", "email" and "hideit".
So, if you need a completely different email template or
additional/changed input validation, your best bet is to create a
custom controller with a modified copy of the postAction of
Mage_Contacts_IndexController.
But there is another solution that is a bit limited but without any
custom code involved:
create a hidden input that determines the type of the form. It could be just <input type="hidden" name="custom" value="1" />.
in the contact transactional email template, use the if directive to show different content based on the form type:
{{if data.custom}}
... custom contact form email ...
{{else}}
... standard contact form email ...
{{/if}}
How to use this custom block
You can add the form anywhere in the CMS using this code (CMS directive):
{{block type="stack_form/form" template="path/to/your/form.phtml"}}
If you do this, you need to add "stack_form/form" to the block whitelist under System > Permissions > Blocks!
Or in the layout using this code (layout XML):
<block type="stack_form/form" name="any_unique_name" template="path/to/your/form.phtml" />
Solution without custom module
If you use the solution without custom controller and a single email template mentioned above, you can set the form action using layout XML as well.
To achieve this, we use the feature to call helpers as parameters for block actions. Unfortunately, the core helper does not have a public method to get a URL but the helper from Mage_XmlConnect has, so you can use that one:
<block type="core/template" name="any_unique_name" template="path/to/your/form.phtml">
<action method="setFormAction">
<param helper="xmlconnect/getUrl">
<route>contacts/index/post</route>
</param>
</action
</block>
In the CMS directive you cannot use helpers, so there you would need to put the actual URL:
{{block type="stack_form/form" template="path/to/your/form.phtml" form_action="/feedback/index/post"}}
Since you probably have different CMS pages/blocks in different store views, this should not be a big problem.
I've added the following new Eclipse template via extension point. It simply adds a template for a sample testTag tag.
<!-- Add code template -->
<extension point="org.eclipse.ui.editors.templates">
<template autoinsert="true"
contextTypeId="html_tag"
description="[Description] Template populated by Snippet values ***"
id="org.eclipse.jst.jsf.ui.newHtmltag"
name="testTag">
<pattern>
<![CDATA[
<testTag style="background: ${color}"></testTag>
]]>
</pattern>
</template>
<resolver
contextTypeId="html_tag"
type="src"
class="TestTagTemplateVariableResolver">
</resolver>
</extension>
What I'd cannot figure out is how to change the value of the $(color) variable at runtime. More specifically, when the user presses Ctrl + Space (or the equivalent for content-assist) and types in "testTag" and presses Enter -- instead of the "color" placeholder text, I'd like it replaced by some other text value I have in another class. How do I do this?
This email chain from 2004 says it might not be possible:
the Java editor chooses not to respect resolvers contributed to its two context types ('java' and 'javadoc'), but only recognizes the built-in resolvers.
The html editor you are working with may have a similar restriction.