excellent idea, Chris. Thanks for sharing it with the community.. Tunç
On 31 Oct 2013, at 11:55, Chris Kent <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
