topic Displaying Complex Forms in a WebScript in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/displaying-complex-forms-in-a-webscript/m-p/243639#M196769 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm trying to develop a webscript to allow users to update metadata for all files in a space at once.&nbsp; I'm currently using the </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Scripts_Examples#File_Upload" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">file upload</A><SPAN> example as my model for displaying a form that submits to another webscript.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In that form, is there a way to create the complex form fields that alfresco uses in its built-in "edit property" form.&nbsp; For example, the data fields in the built-in form are broken up into year/month/date, and the "tags" field has a very complex little UI that pops up to edit the tags for the object.&nbsp; I don't want to have to duplicate those form fields in my webscript, is there a way to just print out the form controls used by alfresco itself?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:47:17 GMT jk3us 2010-04-15T14:47:17Z Displaying Complex Forms in a WebScript https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/displaying-complex-forms-in-a-webscript/m-p/243639#M196769 I'm trying to develop a webscript to allow users to update metadata for all files in a space at once.&nbsp; I'm currently using the file upload example as my model for displaying a form that submits to another webscript.&nbsp; In that form, is there a way to create the complex form fields that alfresco uses i Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:47:17 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/displaying-complex-forms-in-a-webscript/m-p/243639#M196769 jk3us 2010-04-15T14:47:17Z Re: Displaying Complex Forms in a WebScript https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/displaying-complex-forms-in-a-webscript/m-p/243640#M196770 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>When I've developed form based web scripts I built the form field components myself in html/javasript/YUI since I didn't see a way to leverage the components used in the JSF interface in my nonJSF forms.&nbsp; I never looked into building JSF based forms to leverage the existing Alfresco components, but that seems like an alternative.&nbsp; In the Share module, the xforms (</SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Forms_Examples" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Forms_Examples</A><SPAN>)capability exists which I assume then you could leverage any OOTB Share form components.&nbsp; I understand the xforms approach will be available throughout Alfresco (DM) in the future, but I don't know if it is slated for v3.3.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:58:01 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/displaying-complex-forms-in-a-webscript/m-p/243640#M196770 stevegreenbaum 2010-04-17T15:58:01Z