Thanks for the reply and sorry for my turtle-slow response. I'm an intern working for OpenMRS (http://openmrs.org). My project is to replace their dependence on Microsoft InfoPath with OpenOffice.org's XML Forms component. The project page is at http://openmrs.org/wiki/MVC_Data_Entry_Alternatives and my (more informational) blog is at http://compiler-error.blogspot.com .
While I've found OOo to be surprisingly easy and compatible with XForms, there are a few things that I wish it did or did differently. I find OOo's code base to be a little too much for a beginner OOo dev like myself, so I sought to contact those developers working on the XForms component. My questions are as follows: If I wanted to request features/changes, how/where would I do this? What's the probability of these changes being worked on in the near future? If I wanted to try and make such changes myself, could you direct me to some information that would help me out on this? To give an example of the types of things I'd like to see (specifically for the benefit of OpenMRS, but they should help other XForms designers as well), I'm currently having an authentication issue with submitting the forms. The servers we use require you to log in via HTTP, and upon successful login the server sends you a JSESSIONID in an HTTP header. In order to submit the form to the server, you need to include the JSESSIONID in the header. I'm working on a way to "capture" this ID and then create my own submission button when the user clicks "submit". It would be nice if OOo could somehow support all or part of this process. (more info at http://compiler-error.blogspot.com/2007/08/capturing-session-id.html ) Also, MS InfoPath allows for the loading of template XML data to populate the form. You can download a template file with data already filled in, open it in InfoPath, and the data will automatically populate the forms. OOo almost supports this in that you can tell it to use some instance data file (or URI), but this is a manual process and you have to reload the form to get the data to populate the form controls. I discuss this in http://compiler-error.blogspot.com/2007/07/mid-term-report.html . I'm also running into a data validation issue where defining a valid range for data in a control of type Decimal propagates this validation to ALL controls of type Decimal. It seems to me that you should be able to have separate valid ranges for each control, but I may be wrong on this. More info at http://compiler-error.blogspot.com/2007/08/openofficeorg-annoyance.html . Any assistance you could provide on this would be much appreciated. Thanks, -Matthew Harrison Quoting Lars Oppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Matthew, > > I may be able to help you. However, I'd need to know the question first ;) > > Bests, > Lars > > Matthew Harrison wrote: > > > > Hello. I am looking for contact info on the folks that are working on the > XML > > Forms component of OpenOffice.org. Could anybody direct me to them? Am I > > asking in the right place? > > > > Thanks, > > Matthew Harrison > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
