Autocomplete

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Stumpf, Jens Thorsten [mailto:Thorsten.Stumpf-
> [hidden email]]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. April 2012 21:48
> An: [hidden email]
> Betreff: [ops-users] Autocomplete
>
> Hi there!
>
> I have a few questions about using autocomplete:
>
> 1)
> Is the autocomplete feature only available in the trunk but not in the latest
> stable releases?
> Awkwardly I seem to remeber that I read something about it/used this in a
> version before 3.9?
> By beeing only present in the resource section of
> <http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/xbl-
> components/autocom
> plete> the note "introduced after the 3.9 release" seems to imply that
> the other parts have been available before, right?
>
> 2)
> Is there going to be a new stable community based version available soon?
> The last stable was AFAICS released in 2011/05.
>
> 3)
> What's going to happen, if the value the user enters is not listed in the xml
> source the service returns and the user exits the autocomplete form field?
> Is the value going to remain or is it deleted?
> Can I somehow persist the value in the field? For us it is perfectly ok if the
> users enters a value which is not in the list of proposals, because we don't
> know any foreign country train station though they are valid.
>
> 4)
> Unfortunately I can't get any autocomplete field in my form. Do I have to
> add/activate/run anything?
> I inserted the following into my forms model and body section:
>
> Model:
>
>             <xforms:instance id="train-stations">
>                 <itemlist xmlns=""/>
>             </xforms:instance>
>             <xforms:instance id="train-stations-params">
>                 <params xmlns="">
>                     <search/>
>                 </params>
>             </xforms:instance>
>             <xforms:submission id="train-stations-update"
> validate="false"
> action="http://.../bc/list?type=train&amp;query={instance('train-station
> s-params')//search}" method="post" serialization="application/xml"
> ref="instance('ticket')" replace="instance" instance="ticket"/>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------
>
> Body:
>             <fr:autocomplete ref="/train/@code" labelrefs="/train/@name"
>
> resource="http://.../bc/list?type=train&amp;query={$fr-search-value}"
>                 max-results-displayed="10">
>                 <xforms:label>Country code: </xforms:label>
>                 <xforms:itemset nodeset="//item">
>                     <xforms:label ref="text()"/>
>                     <xforms:value ref="@code"/>
>                 </xforms:itemset>
>             </fr:autocomplete>
>
>             <fr:autocomplete
> ref="instance('train-stations')//item/@code"
>                 labelref="instance('train-stations')//item"
>                 id="dynamic-autocomplete"
>                 dynamic-itemset="true">
>
>                 <!-- React to user searching -->
>                 <xforms:action ev:event="fr-search-changed">
>                     <xxforms:variable name="search-value"
> select="event('fr-search-value')"/>
>                     <xxforms:variable name="make-suggestion"
>                         select="string-length($search-value) >= 0"/>
>                     <xforms:action if="$make-suggestion">
>                         <!-- Update itemset -->
>                         <xforms:setvalue ref="instance('train-stations-params')//search"
>                             value="$search-value"/>
>                         <xforms:send
> submission="train-stations-update"/>
>                     </xforms:action>
>                     <xforms:action if="not($make-suggestion)">
>                         <!-- Delete itemset -->
>                         <xforms:delete
> nodeset="instance('train-stations')//item"/>
>                     </xforms:action>
>                 </xforms:action>
>
>                 <xforms:label>Train station: </xforms:label>
>                 <xforms:itemset
> nodeset="instance('train-stations')//item">
>                     <xforms:label ref="."/>
>                     <xforms:value ref="@code"/>
>                 </xforms:itemset>
>             </fr:autocomplete>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------
>
> As you can see I tried the resource method as well as the dynamic method.
> I'm not that sure about the dynamic method part because the wiki is not that
> explicit about it and I miss explanations for the usage of all the different
> instances.
> Though I guess the input should have appeared at least, shouldn't it?
>
> It's perfectly understandable the resource method doesn't work - we're
> using "Orbeon Forms 3.9.0.rc1.201103220245 CE".
> But what's wrong about the dynamic part?
> Oh, it's not about a missing namespace -
> xmlns:fr="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/form-runner" is defined ;-)
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
>
> Thorsten

> Hi there!
>
> I have a few questions about using autocomplete:
>
> 1)
> Is the autocomplete feature only available in the trunk but not in the
> latest stable releases?
> Awkwardly I seem to remeber that I read something about it/used this in
> a version before 3.9?
> By beeing only present in the resource section of
> <http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/xbl-components/autocom
> plete> the note "introduced after the 3.9 release" seems to imply that
> the other parts have been available before, right?
>
> 2)
> Is there going to be a new stable community based version available
> soon?
> The last stable was AFAICS released in 2011/05.
>
> 3)
> What's going to happen, if the value the user enters is not listed in
> the xml source the service returns and the user exits the autocomplete
> form field?
> Is the value going to remain or is it deleted?
> Can I somehow persist the value in the field? For us it is perfectly ok
> if the users enters a value which is not in the list of proposals,
> because we don't know any foreign country train station though they are
> valid.
>
> 4)
> Unfortunately I can't get any autocomplete field in my form. Do I have
> to add/activate/run anything?
> I inserted the following into my forms model and body section:
>
> Model:
>
>            <xforms:instance id="train-stations">
>                <itemlist xmlns=""/>
>            </xforms:instance>
>            <xforms:instance id="train-stations-params">
>                <params xmlns="">
>                    <search/>
>                </params>
>            </xforms:instance>
>            <xforms:submission id="train-stations-update"
> validate="false"
> action="http://.../bc/list?type=train&amp;query={instance('train-station
> s-params')//search}" method="post" serialization="application/xml"
> ref="instance('ticket')" replace="instance" instance="ticket"/>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------
>
> Body:
>            <fr:autocomplete ref="/train/@code" labelrefs="/train/@name"
>
> resource="http://.../bc/list?type=train&amp;query={$fr-search-value}"
>                max-results-displayed="10">
>                <xforms:label>Country code: </xforms:label>
>                <xforms:itemset nodeset="//item">
>                    <xforms:label ref="text()"/>
>                    <xforms:value ref="@code"/>
>                </xforms:itemset>
>            </fr:autocomplete>
>
>            <fr:autocomplete
> ref="instance('train-stations')//item/@code"
>                labelref="instance('train-stations')//item"
>                id="dynamic-autocomplete"
>                dynamic-itemset="true">
>
>                <!-- React to user searching -->
>                <xforms:action ev:event="fr-search-changed">
>                    <xxforms:variable name="search-value"
> select="event('fr-search-value')"/>
>                    <xxforms:variable name="make-suggestion"
>                        select="string-length($search-value) >= 0"/>
>                    <xforms:action if="$make-suggestion">
>                        <!-- Update itemset -->
>                        <xforms:setvalue
> ref="instance('train-stations-params')//search"
>                            value="$search-value"/>
>                        <xforms:send
> submission="train-stations-update"/>
>                    </xforms:action>
>                    <xforms:action if="not($make-suggestion)">
>                        <!-- Delete itemset -->
>                        <xforms:delete
> nodeset="instance('train-stations')//item"/>
>                    </xforms:action>
>                </xforms:action>
>
>                <xforms:label>Train station: </xforms:label>
>                <xforms:itemset
> nodeset="instance('train-stations')//item">
>                    <xforms:label ref="."/>
>                    <xforms:value ref="@code"/>
>                </xforms:itemset>
>            </fr:autocomplete>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------
>
> As you can see I tried the resource method as well as the dynamic
> method.
> I'm not that sure about the dynamic method part because the wiki is not
> that explicit about it and I miss explanations for the usage of all the
> different instances.
> Though I guess the input should have appeared at least, shouldn't it?
>
> It's perfectly understandable the resource method doesn't work - we're
> using "Orbeon Forms 3.9.0.rc1.201103220245 CE".
> But what's wrong about the dynamic part?
> Oh, it's not about a missing namespace -
> xmlns:fr="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/form-runner" is defined ;-)
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
>
> Thorsten
>
>
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