Re: schema-driven data entry UI

2011-01-20 Thread Cory Zue
While everyone is discussing this, you might also consider using XForms [1]. XForms is a standard way to do protocol-driven forms that supports pretty complicated repeat and branching logic. My organization wrote an application called couchforms [2] that takes XForm submissions and sucks them in

Re: schema-driven data entry UI

2011-01-20 Thread Ernesto Freyre
jFormMap is a jQuery plugin I wrote one year ago to render Data Entry Forms in the web based on JSON Definitions, The form gather all form data into a JSON document. I havent published ever, but I do use it in personal and enterprise proyects. If anyone interested, just let me know, it ships with

Re: schema-driven data entry UI

2011-01-20 Thread Ryan Ramage
There is also JSON Widget. A form can be generated client side based on a 'JSON schema'. http://robla.net/jsonwidget/example.php?sample=blankaddr&user=normal A bit quirky, but I would like to see more of these things. On Thu,

Re: schema-driven data entry UI

2011-01-20 Thread Benjamin Young
Hey Alexander, Sorry to jump into this late, but you might enjoy checking out http://bigbluehat.github.com/reformed/ It's primarily a JSON editor (so far). There's some initial support for rendering more complex, HTML5 forms. Most recently, I've added Bespin for editing HTML & JavaScript tha

Re: schema-driven data entry UI

2010-12-16 Thread Alexander Bolotnov
Kenneth, what I see on the page looks quite promising yet I haven't figured how to use this to do what I explained in my original post. Your help on this will be greatly appreciated. Alexander Bolotnov www.gorizont-zavalen.ru On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Kenneth Tyler wrote: > Alexander

Re: schema-driven data entry UI

2010-12-15 Thread Kenneth Tyler
Alexander, I have been working on something like this. In my case I am building documents inside of the couchdb that are templates. These templates are then used by a javascript library to erect a UI for data entry. I have written a little about it at http://crumbsinthecouch.com/ although i am beh

Re: schema-driven data entry UI

2010-12-15 Thread Chris Johnson
I have been reading the Beginning CouchDB book from APress and it walks you through building a small application (task manager) in Chapter 10. As part of this, it talks about building a web page (the user interface) and how to post and retrieve data from Couch. They use CouchApp to build the appli

schema-driven data entry UI

2010-12-15 Thread Alexander Bolotnov
Hi, Is there a tool (I suspect something like this exists for SQL databases) that will allow me to define a schema and build a data-entry UI that users will fill out to push data to couchDB? Or nothing has yet been created in this field and I have to write something by myself. Perhaps, something l