With so many FarCry developers worldwide working on some interesting stuff I thought it would be good to create a “shout out” section to provide ideas to other developers who are all probably developing similar things. To get the ball rolling:
*Today: I extended alterType.cfc* *Task: *Developing an option to allow editors to create online forms and questionnaires. I wanted to leverage the power of FC formtools. The best method I found was to create a new form cfc dynamically, based on defined the questions, labels etc. *Why extend alterType.cfc? *Admin – Update COAPI metadata uses refreshCFCAppData in altertype to rebuild all COAPI types, rules, forms etc. as well as doing many other tasks. I did not want the frequency of form creation to create potential issues repeatedly running “Update COAPI metadata” so extended alterType.cfc into project and added new function called refreshSingleCFCAppData to take a single cfc name passed in and create/update it in the application metadata to allow forms to be created, updated and tested. *Result: *A simple, non-technical, process to create online forms using built in FarCry formtools/wizard code = happy client. *Future:* Have already looked at using a modified version of Justin's FarCry Builder to provide a visual form building tool. Chris. -- You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. To post, email: [email protected] To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev -------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
