Hi Oleg,
as far as I can remember there used to be an eclipse plugin for Cocoon
forms, which could be used to create forms. See [1] for more
information. I'm not really sure it the project still exists/is alive,
but there was an effort to create something like it.
[1]http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-lepido/
Regards,
Jeroen
Konovalov, Oleg wrote:
Job,
What I need is a Forms Builder tool (probably visual stylesheet editor,
so non-tech user can take XML Schema, select elements he needs, lay them on the
screen,
add some validations including individual fields and field1+field2+...=total)
and be able to submit that info to the host.
That's what Altova StyleVision does, but it's only ActiveX/IE.
AFAIK, there is no tool like that in Cocoon world (if not, please correct me!)
It probably should be an Eclpse plugin, I can't build it myself. :-(
Chiba doesn't have such tool.
Orbeon has Forms Builder in alpha (can't even save generated Xforms file yet).
IBM free Visual Xforms Designer/XML Form Generator seem to be in beta and long
abandoned
(Eclipse 3.2 only)
I started looking at IBM Lotus Forms (eForms). Any idea about it ?
Does it require some IBM servers (e.g. WS portal)?
Thank you,
Oleg.
-----Original Message-----
From: Job van Ommen [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:53 AM
To: Konovalov, Oleg [CMB-IT]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Forms builder
Dear Oleg,
The reason I decided not to use chiba is the exact reason you mention.
Altho I did get the demo working, and I found the chibacookbook. In the past
there was a project called chicoon integrating Chiba with cocoon. But that was
a long time ago with older versions.
I did play with the Orbeon form builder, my first impression was that it was
very promising. But because XFORMS aren't widely accepted yet I saw no need in
using them while there was a perfectly good form solution within cocoon.
So the question you should probably be asking yourself is do I want cocoon, or
just a form utility?
Regards,
Job
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Konovalov, Oleg <[email protected]>
wrote:
Job,
I was able to get a fair amount of info on Orbeon, but on Chiba - it's
almost nothing: most links are broken (demo, etc.), I can't gather
much at all. Could you recommend a good source of info?
Have you tried Orbeon Form Builder ? What's your impression ?
Have you tried Lotus Forms ?
Thank you,
Oleg.
-----Original Message-----
From: Job van Ommen [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:42 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Cocoon Forms builder
If you are looking for XForm tools you should check out orbeon and chiba. They
are both pretty decent.
Regards,
Job
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Konovalov, Oleg <[email protected]>
wrote:
Derek,
When you say that all layout is done by stylesheets, do you mean XSL or CSS ?
If so, how do I build the stylesheet graphically [more in Design mode]?
My users will not be programmers,
so I would like to avoid exposing them to some heavy coding.
Also, I've heard of Xforms, but that it's not supported by IE6&7 (is
it true?)
Could anyone compare CForms and XForms ?
Any tools for them ?
Thank you,
Oleg.
-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Hohls [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 2:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Cocoon Forms builder
Oleg
I am not quite sure why you want to build a form graphically - given that all
the layout is done by stylesheets? The forms essentially only contain the
field definition and any logic required to validate or alter/display their
values. FWIW, I have a small Python program that creates basic forms (and the
logic my app uses to manipulate them) from an SQL statement.
Derek
On 2009/02/19 at 11:59, in message
<[email protected]>, "Konovalov, Oleg
" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Are you aware of any tool which allows to build CForms graphically, similar to
how many Eclipse plugins ?
We have a limited set of XML fields, need to create (or find) a tool to build
forms through the GUI for non-programmers.
If not, how would you build such a tool, any building blocks ?
Any help is very appreciated.
TIA,
Oleg Konovalov
Email: [email protected]
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