topic Re: nesting radio button groups in xforms in Alfresco Archive

nesting radio button groups in xforms

fbousson — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:54:30 GMT

My problem is as follows: I would like to present my users with an XForm that shows a radio button group inside another radio button group.It would basically look like this:-item_1 -item_1_inner_1 -item_1_inner_2-item_2 -item_2_inner_1 -item_2_inner_2 -item_2_inner_3I want my users to

Re: nesting radio button groups in xforms

stephenr85 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:49:58 GMT

I have a very similar question.

I would like to have an option for the user to select a type of content (e.g. Html Content, Content Include, User Poll, etc), and then be presented with a set of fields specific to their selection. This way, they could order the pieces of content however they'd like, and not be stuck entering them in a rigid sequence.

The Wiki Forms Authoring Guide says to use an xf:switch in place of an xs:choice. It mentions in the Supported XML Schema Data Types that xs:complexContent creates an xf:switch, but doesn't give anymore detail…so I'm stuck.

Re: nesting radio button groups in xforms

fbousson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:16:32 GMT

I've been experimenting all day with both xs:choice and xs:complexContent

Haven't been able to get anything decent out of either…

Re: nesting radio button groups in xforms

stephenr85 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:05:44 GMT

Same for me 😕 I've been told by support that it has not been implemented, but they're looking into it further.
http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/WCM-251

For now, I'm just going to create a complex type with all of the insertable contents. This will expose each content type every time they add a block of content, so it's not nearly as elegant, but I supposed it'll have to do…

Let me know if you're able to get something to work for you, and I'll do the same.