topic Per-form default-controls doesn't work in 3.4.d in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/per-form-default-controls-doesn-t-work-in-3-4-d/m-p/249379#M202509 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello everybody!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have a problem with defining default-controls in Alfresco Share forms.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>In this manual (</SPAN><A href="http://docs.alfresco.com/3.4/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.alfresco.Enterprise_3_4_0.doc%2Fconcepts%2Fkb-share-forms.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://docs.alfresco.com/3.4/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.alfresco.Enterprise_3_4_0.doc%2Fconcepts%2Fkb-share-forms.html</A><SPAN>) there is an example:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;config evaluator="node-type" condition="cm:content"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;forms&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;default-controls&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;type name="text" <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; template="/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/textfield.ftl" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/default-controls&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;form&gt;<BR />&lt;!– cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut –&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>I want to use it this way:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;config evaluator="node-type" condition="my:ownWorkflowTaskType"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;forms&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;default-controls&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;type name="text"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; template="/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/info.ftl" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/default-controls&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;form&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/forms&gt;<BR />&lt;/config&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>But in Alfresco Share (Community 3.4.d) this example just doesn't work, system ignores &lt;default-controls&gt; tag when it's in </SPAN><STRONG>&lt;config evaluator="node-type" condition="my<img id="smileysurprised" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysurprised" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-surprised.png" alt="Smiley Surprised" title="Smiley Surprised" />wnWorkflowTaskType"&gt;</STRONG><SPAN> block.When i put it in common </SPAN><STRONG>&lt;config&gt;</STRONG><SPAN> block, like this:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;config&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;forms&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;default-controls&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;type name="text"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; template="/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/info.ftl" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/default-controls&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;form&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/forms&gt;<BR />&lt;/config&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>it works. But in this case i cannot define per-form default controls, as </SPAN><STRONG>&lt;config&gt;</STRONG><SPAN> block affects all my forms. Example: i have two workflow forms; one form is for input, the second one is informational. They contain many text fields, and i want to make them not-editable only in second form using </SPAN><STRONG>info.ftl</STRONG><SPAN> instead of default </SPAN><STRONG>textfield.ftl</STRONG><SPAN>, without writing many many "read-only = true" definitons.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Do you have any ideas?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Regard,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Igor.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:05:15 GMT d_garry 2011-06-24T14:05:15Z Per-form default-controls doesn't work in 3.4.d https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/per-form-default-controls-doesn-t-work-in-3-4-d/m-p/249379#M202509 Hello everybody!I have a problem with defining default-controls in Alfresco Share forms.In this manual (http://docs.alfresco.com/3.4/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.alfresco.Enterprise_3_4_0.doc%2Fconcepts%2Fkb-share-forms.html) there is an example:&lt;config evaluator="node-type" condition="cm:content"&gt;&nbsp; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:05:15 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/per-form-default-controls-doesn-t-work-in-3-4-d/m-p/249379#M202509 d_garry 2011-06-24T14:05:15Z Re: Per-form default-controls doesn't work in 3.4.d https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/per-form-default-controls-doesn-t-work-in-3-4-d/m-p/249380#M202510 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Have you tried setting each field's controller using the appearance tag for each property that you want to change?</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;appearance&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;field id="my:prop"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;control template="/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/info.ftl" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/field&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/appearance&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>It is probably more markup but should do the job.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:58:48 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/per-form-default-controls-doesn-t-work-in-3-4-d/m-p/249380#M202510 mccarthymp 2011-08-02T19:58:48Z