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Is there a way to edit / validate our .xsd for WebForm???

xexiz — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:38:35 GMT

Hello, i'm trying to make a WebForm but I didnt find a validator anywhere and I can't make it work and since I dont know if there is a way to edit our xsd after we created the webform, I am doing it over and over, then add it to a web project then try to "create content" and then there is always an

Re: Is there a way to edit / validate our .xsd for WebForm???

xexiz — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:52:01 GMT

Another thing.. is there a way to EDIT a WebForm because when i'm editing it.. droping the .xsd with the Garbage icon, then i'm re-uploading it and Next, Next, Finish: i'm always having this stupid error!

Please correct the errors below then click Finish.

* A system error happened during the operation: Existing file or folder webPage.xsd already exists

I know it's existing, i just dropped it to re-upload it with my changes.. it's annoying! always having to delete the complete WebForm, and start back Eveytime i wanna change something to the xsd!!!! ops:

Re: Is there a way to edit / validate our .xsd for WebForm???

xexiz — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:20:58 GMT

oh well, it's still a pain in the ass to update a WebForm, actually.. Impossible to update! always have to delete and start back. but well Finally got some results.. this is my actual XML result (without the red text): I would like to remove the green lines and replace it by the red one.. so I need to know if we can set an attribute based on an enumeration.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <web_page xmlns:alf="http://www.alfresco.org" xmlns:chiba="http://chiba.sourceforge.net/xforms" xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events" xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<title>Test Page 55</title>
<location>tests</location>
- <contentBody lang="en">
<title>English title</title>
<language>English</language>
<body>English body test page<br /></body>
</contentBody>
- <contentBody lang="fr">
<title>Titre Francais</title>
<language>French</language>
<body>Corps Francais page de test<br /></body>
</contentBody>
<expiration_date>2007-12-25</expiration_date>
</web_page>

I've tried something like that.. which is not actually working having this error:


org.alfresco.web.forms.FormProcessor$ProcessingException: org.alfresco.web.forms.xforms.FormBuilderException: error parsing schema: at line 18 column 52: s4s-elt-must-match.1: The content of 'contentBody' must match (annotation?, (simpleType | complexType)?, (unique | key | keyref)*)). A problem was found starting at: attribute.
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
      xmlns:alf="http://www.alfresco.org"
      elementFormDefault="qualified">

  <xs:simpleType name="language">
    <xs:restriction base="xs:normalizedString">
      <xs:enumeration value="French"/>
      <xs:enumeration value="English"/>
    </xs:restriction>
  </xs:simpleType>

  <!– defines the form for creating a press release –>
  <xs:element name="web_page">
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element name="title" type="xs:normalizedString"/>
        <xs:element name="location" type="xs:normalizedString"/>
        <xs:element name="contentBody" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded">
           <xs:attribute name="lang" type="language">
         <xs:annotation>
              <xs:appinfo>
            <alf:label>French or English</alf:label>
            <alf:appearance>full</alf:appearance>
              </xs:appinfo>
         </xs:annotation>
      </xs:attribute>
           <xs:complexType>
              <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element name="title" type="xs:normalizedString"/>
            <xs:element name="body" type="xs:string"/>
         </xs:sequence>
           </xs:complexType>
        </xs:element>
   <xs:element name="expiration_date" type="xs:date"/>
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>
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Re: Is there a way to edit / validate our .xsd for WebForm???

xexiz — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:01:24 GMT

Ohhh god! finally got it worked!! but I would really appreciate if someone tell me how we can edit inline a WebForm without deleting it all and creating it back! Then go into the webProject and remove it from Web project settings and put it back to make sure he's referencing to the new version… because it's really useless if there's no way to edit a webForm…

Thx

Re: Is there a way to edit / validate our .xsd for WebForm???

xexiz — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:09:05 GMT

no one ever succeed to modify a WebForm schema??? without having to delete the complete WebForm space and creating it back and then go to the webProject and add it back to our webproject which will then, crash there when you will try to Create content, if your schema is invalid. So you would have to do all those step again making all the content already existing from this webform, Invalid..

help please!

Re: Is there a way to edit / validate our .xsd for WebForm???

janv — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:16:24 GMT

This is a known issue http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/WCM-807

Until resolved, a simple workaround is to drill down into the actual form's (definition) space and update the XSD from there. You can also change the XSD properties to "Allow Inline Editing", if needed.

Thanks,
Jan

Re: Is there a way to edit / validate our .xsd for WebForm???

xexiz — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:51:29 GMT

thx.. and where can I enable this "feature" (Allow Inline Editing for XSD) ?

Re: Is there a way to edit / validate our .xsd for WebForm???

janv — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:08:13 GMT

This is a standard feature for supported document types. You can select "View Details" action (on <your>.xsd file). In the document "Properties" section you can simply click on the "Allow Inline Editing" link, and then select the "Edit" action.

Regards,
Jan

Re: Is there a way to edit / validate our .xsd for WebForm???

xexiz — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:18:26 GMT

This is a standard feature for supported document types. You can select "View Details" action (on <your>.xsd file). In the document "Properties" section you can simply click on the "Allow Inline Editing" link, and then select the "Edit" action.

Regards,
Jan

Oh well! that was a hidden option!! But anyways still cant edit it inline! I got the TinyMCE editor then I paste my XSD and when Im getting back to my WebProject, im having this error

org.alfresco.web.forms.FormProcessor$ProcessingException: org.alfresco.web.forms.xforms.FormBuilderException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Reference is not allowed in prolog.‍

I've try to paste my XSD code into the HTML editor of tinyMCE too but it didint seem he liked it! hehe

I guess ill have to wait for v2.2, and i'm hoping to find some improve feature soon! (supposed to be release in december!)

Thx

Re: Is there a way to edit / validate our .xsd for WebForm???

janv — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:31:02 GMT

I ran a quick test, and inline editing seems to work fine for a newly created XSD. However, if you also try to upload XSD updates then this seems to cause the content type to change from 'XML' to 'Octet Stream' which in turn causes TinyMCE to appear next time you try to inline edit ?

If this is the case, then a quick fix is change the content type back to 'XML' (by using the "Modify" icon to the far right of the Properties section).

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Jan

Re: Is there a way to edit / validate our .xsd for WebForm???

kvc — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:53:09 GMT

Everyone:

There are currently two ways to quickly update and test an XSD:

1. CIFS

     You can mount the Alfresco repository as a shared drive and
     and have direct access to your XSD from Windows Explorer.
     You can open, edit, and save changes directly to your XSD from
     your tool of choice. For web developers working with schema for
     the first time, a standard site development tools like DreamWeaver
     is also an excellent tool for working with XSDs.

2. Check-out / check-in - OR - Update

     The XSD in the Data Dictionary is a normal Alfresco-managed asset.
     If you cannot mount a shared drive and work via CIFS, you can do
     a normal check-out to download your XSD to workstation, edit
     locally, and then check-in your changes or use the Update action to
     upload and replace the current XSD with the new version from your
     desktop.

A few considerations:

A. For XSD editing, we highly recommend using an editor like a
     DreamWeaver. Although you can use any simple text editors,
     more developer-friendly editors like a DreamWeaver help you when
     writing your XSD in doing things like closing out all your tags, etc.

     I would not recommend using TinyMCE for XSD. TinyMCE is designed
     to write our formatted hypertext and is intended for business users
     only when authoring certain sections of a web page where in-line
     formatting options are needed.

     TinyMCE is not designed to be an XML or XSD editor. I would expect
     TinyMCE to add extraneous characters or whitespace that will in all
     cases break your XSD.

B. Once you've updated your XSD, you can immediately test out in a
     Web Project that is subscribed to that Web Form. The XSD is read
     from the Data Dictionary each time you go to the Create/Edit Content
     Wizard.

     It is often useful to have a test Web Project that just subscribes to
     your new Web Forms until you get in working order. Then, once you
     save a new XSD via CIFS direct back to the Data Dictionary, you can
     immediately test in a safe, protected environment.

C. With all this in mind, please note that the Edit Web Form Wizard is
     what you access to do things like (a) change or add output paths
     or (b) add or remove new template associations. The Edit Web Form
     Wizard is a configuration wizard to set the properties of the Web Form.
     This configuration wizard is not intended for edit. Edit, as noted above,
     is to be handled just as you would any normal Alfresco asset, as your
     XSDs and templates are just normal editable nodes in the Data
     Dictionary.

I hope that helps.

Kevin