Hi Mark, On 20 Dec 2018, at 07:37, Samuel Pelletier <sam...@samkar.com> wrote:
> I've done dynamic forms in the past (in PHP and WO) and never tried to map > them to an ORM entity. I think it is better to model your a Form entity and > another one for answers (FilledForm or CompletedForm). The Form entity is the > Meta model with the questions and the other contains only answers. You end > with 2 symmetric hierarchies with one answer class for each question type > class (numeric, text, choice, boolean, image, ...). Each of the Answer class > has it's edit component. > > The display form component is build by displaying the proper edit component > for each answer in order. For easy D2W integration, I think you can > initialize a new form with blank answers and simply use the D2W magic to > display the complete form (using an ordered toMany from the CompletedForm > entity to it's answers) . FWIW, that's pretty much exactly how we implemented a SurveyMonkey/Survs-style "create your own arbitrary survey" project for a client a few years ago. It worked reasonably well, and it's still in use. Are you wedded to the dynamic model approach you describe, Mark? -- Paul Hoadley https://logicsquad.net/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/logic-squad/
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