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APS Designer Forms Javascript & ADF

kevinbeddingfie — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:53:35 GMT

I have a client that has been using the out of the box APS user interface where I have added a fair amount of Javascript (client side) within the Forms via the APS App Designer in order to meet some of their business needs. We are now preparing to move to ADF to handle more enhancement requests. W

Re: APS Designer Forms Javascript & ADF

dvuika — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:03:26 GMT

It has never been possible to execute AngularJS (known as Angular 1) code inside the Angular 2-5 framework. So the answer is no, it's not possible due to the framework architecture.

The ADF Form component provides Angular (not AngularJS) alternative where applicable. It is possible to use FormService to listen to form and stencil events, also creating custom Angular components (see more details here alfresco-ng2-components/extensibility.md at master · Alfresco/alfresco-ng2-components · GitHub )

Re: APS Designer Forms Javascript & ADF

kevinbeddingfie — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:07:56 GMT

Thank you for your reply. I knew that custom stencils did not work within ADF but I was unaware that javascript embedded into the forms fell into that same category.