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Ideas on Dynamic population in web forms?

rsulliv1 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:41:16 GMT

Hey all,I was wondering if anyone could lend some ideas on how to accomplish the followingopulate multiple textareas based on the selection of a single drop-down list.More detail:There would be content of a certain content type (i.e., sm:sample).The content of that type would be xml populated by a

Re: Ideas on Dynamic population in web forms?

kmehta31 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:07:03 GMT

Hi,

As you know, WCM web form is to create the content by defining XSD and applying templates.
However it doesnt have kind of behavior you are talking about. You can still include the dynamic values by various approaches (webscript, jsp etc.)
and use the values in your schema definition by import/include functionality…
However it doesnt have behaviour like change the values of dropdown Out of the box…unless u modify the implementation.

For more info…you need to see the Chiba implementation and do some custom coding…

Re: Ideas on Dynamic population in web forms?

rsulliv1 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:12:03 GMT

My fault, I should have updated this post. I actually did accomplish what I was going for by creating custom dojo widgets and incorporating them into alfresco.

I detailed the process here: http://ecmconsultant.blogspot.com/

Thanks for the reply!
-ryan