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Surf Platform and Web Forms

sbarcena — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:02:34 GMT

Hi to all,I have a web site basing on the example described in http: // http://www.benh.co.uk/alfresco/surf-part-I-getting-started and after seeing the webinard " Introducing the Alfresco SURF Platform ". This site is deployed in my Tomcat (if I accede at http://localhost:8080/alfresco this not appe

Re: Surf Platform and Web Forms

deas0815 — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:50:58 GMT

Hallo sbarcena,

same scenario here.

At this time what we do is this:

_ Create webform based content instance in the web-client (alfresco webapp)
_ Select a content instance in a custom component in webstudio

Not perfect of course.

AFAIK alfresco is working on forms for the 3.1 and 3.2 releases. Maybe the changes ahead will allow creating
form based content easily from within a webscript component.

Nevertheless, I encountered other issues along the road.

In our scenario, form renditions do not really help. I'd like to have the raw xml content instance (or an equivalent bean)
in the controller and/or view. I got this working, but it required a few tweaks, but I may have missed something.

regards
Andreas

Re: Surf Platform and Web Forms

sbarcena — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:32:20 GMT

OK,

My site is static and is based on a structure of templates, components, pages and page-associations, so I have everything built with XML files and FTL templates.
I want build Web Forms to generate XML files in specific folders, and I'm going to have to change my FTL templates to draw the contents of XML.
Can I run jsp inside the template FTL? How?
Can I make the template FTL execute a JSP? How?
Can I configure my application to use templates JSP instead of FTL templates? How?

I'm desperate :roll:

Re: Surf Platform and Web Forms

deas0815 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:47:36 GMT

OK,

My site is static and is based on a structure of templates, components, pages and page-associations, so I have everything built with XML files and FTL templates.
I want build Web Forms to generate XML files in specific folders, and I'm going to have to change my FTL templates to draw the contents of XML.
Can I run jsp inside the template FTL? How?
Can I make the template FTL execute a JSP? How?
Can I configure my application to use templates JSP instead of FTL templates? How?

I'm desperate :roll:

I guess you are on the wrong track if you really consider executing a JSP from a freemarker template.

I guess what you really need/want is a natural "handy" representation of the form generated XML - at least this is
what I wanted.

I have extended alfresco classes to get a "natural" representation of the XML in Javascript (XML object) and in Freemarker (nodemodel). It works
in studio as well as "standalone".

It was a bit tricky though.

If you want, I can send you the source. Its uncommented and I'm quite busy now so I don't have time to explain in further detail.

regards
Andreas

Re: Surf Platform and Web Forms

ben — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:24:55 GMT

Hi,

I have also posted a tutorial showing two basic examples of using WCM content with SURF which may be useful - http://www.benh.co.uk/alfresco/surf-part-3-alfresco-wcm-content/

Regards, Ben.