Creating forms in alfresco share

[santoshbaradwaj]

Hi all,

Can you please help me in Creating forms in alfresco share.

my scenario is like new user option in share, when i am click on New Employee button the employee entry form will appear in the screen and what ever values i entered those values stored in DB.

can you please guide me in this.


THANKS
IN ADVANCE

[jpotts]

There are numerous resources related to the form service. When you are exposing custom properties of an object, it is simply a matter of XML configuration to expose those properties as fields on a form.

In your case, however, you are trying to add properties to a user object. The user form is not built to be extensible out-of-the-box. Here is a blog post that discusses how to add properties to the user form in Alfresco Share 3.4. The code will likely not work as-is for Alfresco 4, but it should give you an approach.

Jeff

[santoshbaradwaj]

Thanks for your replay Jeff,

can you please provide any link which helps to create new properties for user type in alfresco 4

[jpotts]

I don't know of any. If you can't find any on your own, your best bet will be to attempt to follow the same pattern as the example that works for 3.4 and make adjustments as necessary.

Jeff

[ptvnrao]

hi ,
i am new to forms development in share and webeditor please give me step by step solution for this as soon as possible.
how to open web-editor too it asking username and password i am entered share user name and password its showing error page please guide me.
thanks in advance.

[jpotts]

ptvnrao,

If you are trying to add properties to the user object, like the original poster, you can follow the example cited in my first reply. If you are trying to configure Alfresco Share to show custom properties, follow this tutorial:
http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2012/01/09/1509

If you are trying to create generic web forms in Alfresco Share that have nothing to do with content types you'll have to follow the examples that are in various Alfresco Add-Ons or follow various examples available in blog posts.

Jeff

[ptvnrao]

hi hpotts,
            Thanks for reply.yes as per you said i am installed one add-on to create forms in share i.e "alfresco model designer" and i could created one form also but exactly i dont know from where in share that form will call actually i am created form is example form.give me suggestion on this please.
                                         thanks in advance

[ptvnrao]

hi jpotts ,
          I am new to alfresco so let me know some basic things about alfresco will you please clarify below thing.
         1)what is the flow of alfresco share and explorer?
         2)what is the request processor of forms in share ?
         3)tell me a little bit of word like form service ,form component ,form process and etc and files or resources like ftl file and tell me about configuration files.
             please clarify this thing or if any attachments is there with you please attach it is very help to learn alfresco more.
           Thanks for help and coordinate with me.thanks in advance

[jpotts]

Regarding Share and Explorer, these are two completely different web clients. Explorer is the old JSF-based client. It is not being actively developed at this point. Share is the new Surf-based client. The Explorer client is currently embedded in the same WAR as the repository itself. So there is really no "flow" or relationship between the two web clients. Many customers have moved to Share for everything. Some older customers have made significant customizations to the Explorer client, so they are slower to move.

Regarding your detailed forms questions, I refer you to the Forms Developer Guide on the wiki.

Jeff

[ptvnrao]

thanks jeff,
         Thanks for suggestion ,but actually my doubt is lets take share app how this app working in background ,how our request is going throw the how many resources ,which resource is view component and model component and which one is controllers and responsibility respectively.if i know that thing then i will understand how to make changes in alfresco share as per clients requirement like adding dashlets and integrate email from other mail engines etc.And also please tell me previous post mentioned words a little.
       For the forms development which add-on is better and flow of forms executions previously i am installed "alfresco model designer" but i am not clear with that later i am installed "alfresco Form Model Management" for this no good video's there if you don't mind how to create and managed the forms please tell me that step by step or any link for video please…
                                          Thanks for reply and thanks in advance…