Hello everyone,
I take part in the development of a module of Ofbiz/Neogia within the
ASPerience company. I seek to dynamically define a form without
passing by a ftl.
I was unable to find some issue (jira) about this functionality.
Is it possible to do something like this ? (and how is it possible ?)
This possibility was evoked by N.Malin on Neogia's wiki
(http://www.neogia.org/Field_Iterate)
(this is an approximative page's transduction)
Principle:
Currently, the forms use a static definition to be able, since a
context, to post information in a dynamic way. When we want to obtain
a dynamically defined form, we must generally pass by screens ftl.
In order to add dynamics in the forms, we can define a new iterative
element which iterate on a list of map and applies each map of the
list like a context to the elements contained in the iterative element.
Ex :
<form name="example" type="single" target="NewObject">
<field name="field1" title="${uiLabelMap.Example}"><display/></field>
<field name="field2" title="${uiLabelMap.Example2}"><text/></field>
<field name="records">
<iterate suffix="_it">
<field name="field3" title="title3"><display also-hidden="true"/><field>
<field name="field4" title="title4"><text/><field>
</iterate>
</field>
<field name="submit"><submit/></field>
</form>
This form can receive a context like this:
field1 = foo
field2 = bar
records = [[field3 = firstFoo, title3 = ${uiLabelMap.ExampleTitle3},
field4 = firstBar, title4 = ${uiLabelMap.ExampleTitle4}],
[field3 = secondFoo, title3 = ${uiLabelMap.ExampleTitle3Other},
field4 = secondBar, title4 = ${uiLabelMap.ExampleTitle4Other}],
[field3 = thirdFoo, title3 = ${uiLabelMap.ExampleTitle3Another},
field4 = thirdBar, title4 = ${uiLabelMap.ExampleTitle4Another}]]
When the modelForm reads the iterate type's field, it starts again a
fields construction with each element of the list as context. One adds
the attribute suffix on iterate to be able to recover the fields by a
service via the List type.
Sincerely,
Eric Llusca.
