Thanks for the info people!

The problem is that I give only technical advice, I do not make the decisions.

If that would be possible, and then listing the objects with all the 
properties, it would rock.



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De: users-boun...@xwiki.org [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] En nombre de 
Sergiu Dumitriu
Enviado el: jueves, 05 de marzo de 2009 13:21
Para: XWiki Users
Asunto: Re: [xwiki-users] Killer App for xwiki

Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> Hernández Cuchí wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>  
>>
>> In my organization we are debating between XWiki and Sharepoint. There 
>> is a functionality that makes sharepoint different from many 
>> alternatives, and it is to create forms in an easy way. I've been 
>> searching the documentation of xwiki, and even though I found that 
>> there are forms, I hadn't found a way of making them "in a simple 
>> way", I mean, with a form to create the forms. Then, displaying the 
>> structured data and being able to copy paste to the office suite.
>>
>>  
>>
>> So here comes the question, is there any easy way to create a formular?
>>
>>  
>>
>> I mean that if there isn't, if someone knowing the technology could do 
>> it I would just be awesome.
> 
> There is no public form designer for the moment, although there was an 
> attempt to do this a few years ago (still in the sandbox), and we do 
> know that this is a Must Have feature, but there's no volunteer for it 
> at the moment. Technically, this shouldn't be that difficult to do for 
> an experienced developer (either in JS or in GWT), but our GWT 
> developers are pushing on the new WYSIWYG editor, and our JS developers 
> are busy on other things. And I didn't see any Summer of Code candidate 
> good enough to handle this project, maybe this year we'll have one.
> 
> Another alternative for the moment is to use the class sheet found in 
> XE, as it creates a basic automatic form for a class, one that simply 
> lists all properties and displays them in order.
> 
> So in summary, we're planning to have this as soon as we find resources 
> or volunteers to work on it.

Alternatively, since you're planning on spending some money, you can go 
to www.xwiki.com for payed support, and you can support the development 
of this feature. It is better to invest in Open Source than to keep 
feeding the MS monopoly.

-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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