topic Re: Rendering an ECM Form in Alfresco Archive

Rendering an ECM Form

kamlesh — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:01:30 GMT

Hi,I am using Labs 3c version of Alfresco for evaluation purpose. XForms rendition in Alfresco web-client is not supported for ECM forms the way it is supported for WCM forms. Following is the quote from Alfresco wiki page: ECM Forms, also known as 'DM Forms' or simply 'Forms', are now available in

Re: Rendering an ECM Form

zaizi — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:28:28 GMT

What solution are you trying to build?

Re: Rendering an ECM Form

kamlesh — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:06:09 GMT

The XML file generated using ECM Form feature of Alfresco is specific to Chiba and Alfresco (contains namespaces specific to them). I want to transform this XML in form of a html. So that the file can be rendered in a browser properly.

For example, a standalone Chiba application does server side XForms transformation and renders a file to the end user by converting it into html. Something similar I want to achieve.

My basic requirement is to incorporate Forms feature in Alfresco, wherein an user can upload a form definition and she can design and view a form using that form definition. I am trying to match my requirement with ECM Forms.

Can you through some lights on this.

Regards,
Kamlesh

Re: Rendering an ECM Form

zaizi — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:31:35 GMT

You can do that with Custom Template using Freemarker. Let's assume all your ECM forms are being created within Space X. You can write a custom template and assign it to Space X to "render" the XML files in a certain way. You can make this as rich / functional as you like.

See Calendar implementation from Alfresco 2.9. It renders an entire calendar application using custom template which makes use of Yahoo UI to render events defined in XML files within the Space.