Thank you Guillaume That is what I was looking for.
Maybe there should be a link on http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/Forms ? (BTW - search has now ceased to function - I guess Vincent must be playing with it? :)) Thanks again, - Hugh -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guillaume Lerouge Sent: 01 March 2010 3:53 PM To: XWiki Developers Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] Documentation request Hi Hugh, On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Hugh Hulme <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm an experienced software engineer but scripting XWiki still seems > to be about as clear as mud to me. > > I know I could create a Form. > I know this could result in a new Page being generated. > However, I have no idea how to make this happen. > Is an event raised when I submit the form? If so, how do I attach a > handler to that event? What do I then need to do to squeeze the > user-provided data into a page generated from a template? Or into some > data store from which a templated page would be generated? > > I would be incredibly grateful if someone could throw together a very > quick walk-through of doing the following from a web browser: > > Creating a new form with a singular field, e.g. Name Writing the code > which takes the contents of this form and creates a new page with > title "Name's Greeting" and content "Hello, Name!" > > This does raise further questions. For example: Can a user go back > later and edit the data in the form? Or would the resulting page need > to be edited instead? > You should try following this tutorial: http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial It will help a lot. Guillaume > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki SAS Skype: wikibc Twitter: glerouge http://guillaumelerouge.com/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
