Hello, In a current project being built on top of Ofbiz I have a form for editing details of a freight transport job. Each job has multiple roles performed by different parties - Shipper, Consignee, Agent, BILL_TO_PARTY, etc.
The client required that the party contact details for each role be editable on the same form as the Job to allow operators to more easily capture job details. Building the form using the form widget xml was overly verbose and wasn't a good solution in cases where multiple parties might hold a role - e.g. there can be multiple billing parties for a job. I ended up using FTL macros for rendering each of the roles on the form. I've started looking at how I might move from the FTL macros back to the Form Widget, but have run into the problem of duplicate form input names when including a form multiple times on a screen. To resolve this I tried using the FlexibleStringExpander for a form field's parameter name. I've created a branch here: https://github.com/danwatford/ofbiz-framework/tree/flexible-form-parameter-name And a demonstration of how it might be used here: https://github.com/danwatford/ofbiz-framework/tree/flexible-form-parameter-name-demo To use the demonstration, build the branch and loadAll demo data. Run ofbiz and visit https://localhost:8443/partymgr [image: image.png] The demo displays 5 Persons and 5 PartyGroups in random order, using a different included form for each type. Click on Update [image: image.png] The next form shows all the fields that were posted. Any issues that might come up from using FlexibleStringExpander for parameter names in this way? Thanks, Dan. --
