I have looked for this for a long time. I started writing my own, but more important
things (paying customers) came up...
At 03:36 PM 1/3/01 +0000, Paul Johnston wrote:
>This may sound a little bit odd, but I am surprised that I can't find such a
>tool.
>
>At the moment I am in development of a custom tag that will take a CF
>structure, and create a form from it. Nothing new, except that I intend to
>give the user control of the output to as great an extent as possible.
>
>I have seen custom tags that you can put in fieldnames, and out comes a
>terrible form (ie no possibility of adding classes field names, or the table
>is formatted badly). I have also seen custom tags that use a database to
>hold lots of information and you can do surveys and statistics and
>everything like that.
>
>There isn't a "Take a structure and make a form" kind of tag. The only
>reason I feel this could be important is that it takes out another bit of UI
>from the programmer (a bit like using XML) and gives it more to the
>designed. In other words, you pass in a structure and you get out the form.
>
>The other reason it's important is that if you want 40 different forms all
>emailed to the same place (which is why I'm making it), you can create these
>forms on the fly and change them all at once (ie if you need to add in a
>field to every one of them).
>
>What do you think? Anyone done this? Do I make sense? Is it just to late
>in the day (in the UK) and I didn't get enough sleep last night or what?
>
>Paul
>
>PS I know you can create dynamic forms in various ways. The whole point of
>this is to provide a common interface (ie a CF structure) to a decent "Form
>Creator" type of tag.
>
>
>
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