topic Re: Data entry HTML form in Alfresco Archive

Data entry HTML form

nikes — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:07:17 GMT

Hello folks,I want to integrate HTML form containing some fields, which user fills and data should be stored in database table(User created table).How can I achieve this to integrate with Alfresco web client? Do I need to create JSF pages and write any beans for this?Thanks,Nikesh

Re: Data entry HTML form

nikes — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:41:51 GMT

Guys, please provide some inputs on how to achieve this requirement.

Re: Data entry HTML form

nikes — Sun, 24 May 2009 06:11:50 GMT

Dear Alfresco members, please guide me for my requirements.

Re: Data entry HTML form

mrogers — Sun, 24 May 2009 10:21:37 GMT

So you want to code your own JSFs and store the data in your own tables? A Java Textbook will have examples.

Do you want to use Alfresco at all? Normally you would persist data in Alfresco as node properties and there are a whold load of APIs for doing so and then retrieving the data once its saved.

Re: Data entry HTML form

nikes — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:55:25 GMT

So you want to code your own JSFs and store the data in your own tables? A Java Textbook will have examples.

I am very well aware of java database connectivity and no need for any Java textbook friend.

Microsoft sharepoint has feature called "LIST" and IBM Filenet can store properties without document upload.

I wanted to know whether similar feature is avaible in Alfresco?

I know if not then to integrate data entry form in Alfresco, JSF Hibernate is the last option to do the job.

Thanks,
Nikesh

Re: Data entry HTML form

mrogers — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:19:02 GMT

Yes a node can have properties without having to have a file uploaded.     So your requirement then becomes to have some sort of UI storing data in a Node properties.

Alfresco supports content modeling to allow you to define your custom types and aspects.    http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Beginner_Guide_-_Content_Modeling

Then the alfresco explorer interface (for one example) will allow you to define property sheets to display the properties of your custom types.        Or another approach would be to have plain HTML form feeding a web script which sets node properties.

Re: Data entry HTML form

nikes — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:09:42 GMT

Thanks mrogers ,

Is there any sample available for adding propertysheet data (Without uploading document).
I have successfully added Type, Aspects to folder as a rule, as well as added custom property in Advanced search paramaters.

But I didn't get enough input for propertysheet generation.
Can anyone give reference link to achieve this?

Second requirement is to maintain audit trail (what, who, how etc….) of properties. If I use custom table then to maintain audit trail would be very complex. What do u suggest?

I read little about custom wizard. Is it a good solution to use custom wizard in our requirements?

Thanks,
Nikesh

Re: Data entry HTML form

nikes — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:08:07 GMT

Any one here who can guide me?

What would be NODE in this requirement?