Control to add block of read-only text (in Form Builder)

> Hi,
>
> I'm building a solution using the Form Builder, and need my end-users
> to be able to add blocks of read-only descriptive text to the forms
> they create. None of the standard controls seem to give this option -
> the 'Text Output' control only allows 1 line of text, and making the
> standard 'Multi-Line Text' control read-only isn't very user-friendly.
>
> I've tried creating my own control in XBL (baed on the Multi-Line Text
> control), but have had a lot of trouble with it and am not sure if
> there is a better way.
>
> Soes anyone have any suggestions or examples of how I might do this?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Simon
>
>
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> Simon,
>
> Currently, XBL components do not actually have a WYSIWYG appearance in
> Form Builder itself, so I think this will require a change to Form
> Builder, because you will want a textarea to enter the text, right?
>
> -Erik
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Simon Goodchild<[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm building a solution using the Form Builder, and need my end-users
>> to be able to add blocks of read-only descriptive text to the forms
>> they create. None of the standard controls seem to give this option -
>> the 'Text Output' control only allows 1 line of text, and making the
>> standard 'Multi-Line Text' control read-only isn't very user-friendly.
>>
>> I've tried creating my own control in XBL (baed on the Multi-Line Text
>> control), but have had a lot of trouble with it and am not sure if
>> there is a better way.
>>
>> Soes anyone have any suggestions or examples of how I might do this?
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
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> Yes, I was thinking that a simple textarea was all that would be
> needed on the Form Builder side, so I just need a way to transform
> that content into a static text block in the generated form. I tried
> doing this using an xsl transformation in a new XBL component, but
> couldn't find a way to retrieve the content from the textarea for
> display. I was hoping it would be fairly easy to do, as the 'Text
> Output' control is doing almost the same thing with a text field, but
> maybe it's more difficult :-)
>
> Simon
>
> 2009/7/21 Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]>:
>> Simon,
>>
>> Currently, XBL components do not actually have a WYSIWYG appearance in
>> Form Builder itself, so I think this will require a change to Form
>> Builder, because you will want a textarea to enter the text, right?
>>
>> -Erik
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Simon Goodchild<[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm building a solution using the Form Builder, and need my end-users
>>> to be able to add blocks of read-only descriptive text to the forms
>>> they create. None of the standard controls seem to give this option -
>>> the 'Text Output' control only allows 1 line of text, and making the
>>> standard 'Multi-Line Text' control read-only isn't very user-friendly.
>>>
>>> I've tried creating my own control in XBL (baed on the Multi-Line Text
>>> control), but have had a lot of trouble with it and am not sure if
>>> there is a better way.
>>>
>>> Soes anyone have any suggestions or examples of how I might do this?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>>
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> I don't think it's *very* difficult to do, but again it requires a
> change to Form Builder. If you look at grid-cell-editor.xml in the
> source, you will see the following match for the text output control:
>
> <xforms:group ref="xforms:output[not(@mediatype)]">
>
> This is where Form Builder decides to place an input field to edit the text.
>
> Something similar would be needed to place a textarea for your control.
>
> -Erik
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Simon Goodchild<[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Yes, I was thinking that a simple textarea was all that would be
>> needed on the Form Builder side, so I just need a way to transform
>> that content into a static text block in the generated form. I tried
>> doing this using an xsl transformation in a new XBL component, but
>> couldn't find a way to retrieve the content from the textarea for
>> display. I was hoping it would be fairly easy to do, as the 'Text
>> Output' control is doing almost the same thing with a text field, but
>> maybe it's more difficult :-)
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> 2009/7/21 Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]>:
>>> Simon,
>>>
>>> Currently, XBL components do not actually have a WYSIWYG appearance in
>>> Form Builder itself, so I think this will require a change to Form
>>> Builder, because you will want a textarea to enter the text, right?
>>>
>>> -Erik
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Simon Goodchild<[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm building a solution using the Form Builder, and need my end-users
>>>> to be able to add blocks of read-only descriptive text to the forms
>>>> they create. None of the standard controls seem to give this option -
>>>> the 'Text Output' control only allows 1 line of text, and making the
>>>> standard 'Multi-Line Text' control read-only isn't very user-friendly.
>>>>
>>>> I've tried creating my own control in XBL (baed on the Multi-Line Text
>>>> control), but have had a lot of trouble with it and am not sure if
>>>> there is a better way.
>>>>
>>>> Soes anyone have any suggestions or examples of how I might do this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>>
>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>>>
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> Thanks for the hint Erik. I now how the new group defined within
> grid-cell-editor.xml, an my custom XBL component setup, so that I can
> add the control in using the Form Builder. The textarea correctly
> appears in the formbuilder for editing, but there is nothing displayed
> when I actually test the form output. I'm assuming there's another
> config file somewhere whih will map my new component to a view whe the
> form is run, but haven't found anything yet. Any ideas to help me do
> this?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Simon
>
> 2009/7/28 Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]>:
>> I don't think it's *very* difficult to do, but again it requires a
>> change to Form Builder. If you look at grid-cell-editor.xml in the
>> source, you will see the following match for the text output control:
>>
>> <xforms:group ref="xforms:output[not(@mediatype)]">
>>
>> This is where Form Builder decides to place an input field to edit the text.
>>
>> Something similar would be needed to place a textarea for your control.
>>
>> -Erik
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Simon Goodchild<[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> Yes, I was thinking that a simple textarea was all that would be
>>> needed on the Form Builder side, so I just need a way to transform
>>> that content into a static text block in the generated form. I tried
>>> doing this using an xsl transformation in a new XBL component, but
>>> couldn't find a way to retrieve the content from the textarea for
>>> display. I was hoping it would be fairly easy to do, as the 'Text
>>> Output' control is doing almost the same thing with a text field, but
>>> maybe it's more difficult :-)
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>> 2009/7/21 Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]>:
>>>> Simon,
>>>>
>>>> Currently, XBL components do not actually have a WYSIWYG appearance in
>>>> Form Builder itself, so I think this will require a change to Form
>>>> Builder, because you will want a textarea to enter the text, right?
>>>>
>>>> -Erik
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Simon Goodchild<[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm building a solution using the Form Builder, and need my end-users
>>>>> to be able to add blocks of read-only descriptive text to the forms
>>>>> they create. None of the standard controls seem to give this option -
>>>>> the 'Text Output' control only allows 1 line of text, and making the
>>>>> standard 'Multi-Line Text' control read-only isn't very user-friendly.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've tried creating my own control in XBL (baed on the Multi-Line Text
>>>>> control), but have had a lot of trouble with it and am not sure if
>>>>> there is a better way.
>>>>>
>>>>> Soes anyone have any suggestions or examples of how I might do this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon
>>>>>
>>>>>
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> Simon,
>
> Does your component appears in the Form Builder toolbox?
>
> It should also work at runtime then!
>
> -Erik
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Simon Goodchild<[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Thanks for the hint Erik. I now how the new group defined within
>> grid-cell-editor.xml, an my custom XBL component setup, so that I can
>> add the control in using the Form Builder. The textarea correctly
>> appears in the formbuilder for editing, but there is nothing displayed
>> when I actually test the form output. I'm assuming there's another
>> config file somewhere whih will map my new component to a view whe the
>> form is run, but haven't found anything yet. Any ideas to help me do
>> this?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> 2009/7/28 Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]>:
>>> I don't think it's *very* difficult to do, but again it requires a
>>> change to Form Builder. If you look at grid-cell-editor.xml in the
>>> source, you will see the following match for the text output control:
>>>
>>> <xforms:group ref="xforms:output[not(@mediatype)]">
>>>
>>> This is where Form Builder decides to place an input field to edit the text.
>>>
>>> Something similar would be needed to place a textarea for your control.
>>>
>>> -Erik
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Simon Goodchild<[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>> Yes, I was thinking that a simple textarea was all that would be
>>>> needed on the Form Builder side, so I just need a way to transform
>>>> that content into a static text block in the generated form. I tried
>>>> doing this using an xsl transformation in a new XBL component, but
>>>> couldn't find a way to retrieve the content from the textarea for
>>>> display. I was hoping it would be fairly easy to do, as the 'Text
>>>> Output' control is doing almost the same thing with a text field, but
>>>> maybe it's more difficult :-)
>>>>
>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>>> 2009/7/21 Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]>:
>>>>> Simon,
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently, XBL components do not actually have a WYSIWYG appearance in
>>>>> Form Builder itself, so I think this will require a change to Form
>>>>> Builder, because you will want a textarea to enter the text, right?
>>>>>
>>>>> -Erik
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Simon Goodchild<[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm building a solution using the Form Builder, and need my end-users
>>>>>> to be able to add blocks of read-only descriptive text to the forms
>>>>>> they create. None of the standard controls seem to give this option -
>>>>>> the 'Text Output' control only allows 1 line of text, and making the
>>>>>> standard 'Multi-Line Text' control read-only isn't very user-friendly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've tried creating my own control in XBL (baed on the Multi-Line Text
>>>>>> control), but have had a lot of trouble with it and am not sure if
>>>>>> there is a better way.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Soes anyone have any suggestions or examples of how I might do this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Simon
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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> Hi Erik,
>
> It does appear in the Form Builder interface (in the compenent menu on
> the left and within the actual builder), and allows me to view/edit
> the text that is displayed. But when I save and preview the form I
> just get a blank space where that component should appear. All the
> other components in my test form appear around this, so I just get a
> blank space in the form.
>
> I can provide the source for the changes I have made if that helps - I
> was going to contribute it back to the project once it's working
> anyway.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Simon
>
> 2009/8/2 Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]>:
>> Simon,
>>
>> Does your component appears in the Form Builder toolbox?
>>
>> It should also work at runtime then!
>>
>> -Erik
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Simon Goodchild<[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the hint Erik. I now how the new group defined within
>>> grid-cell-editor.xml, an my custom XBL component setup, so that I can
>>> add the control in using the Form Builder. The textarea correctly
>>> appears in the formbuilder for editing, but there is nothing displayed
>>> when I actually test the form output. I'm assuming there's another
>>> config file somewhere whih will map my new component to a view whe the
>>> form is run, but haven't found anything yet. Any ideas to help me do
>>> this?
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>> 2009/7/28 Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]>:
>>>> I don't think it's *very* difficult to do, but again it requires a
>>>> change to Form Builder. If you look at grid-cell-editor.xml in the
>>>> source, you will see the following match for the text output control:
>>>>
>>>> <xforms:group ref="xforms:output[not(@mediatype)]">
>>>>
>>>> This is where Form Builder decides to place an input field to edit the text.
>>>>
>>>> Something similar would be needed to place a textarea for your control.
>>>>
>>>> -Erik
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Simon Goodchild<[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>> Yes, I was thinking that a simple textarea was all that would be
>>>>> needed on the Form Builder side, so I just need a way to transform
>>>>> that content into a static text block in the generated form. I tried
>>>>> doing this using an xsl transformation in a new XBL component, but
>>>>> couldn't find a way to retrieve the content from the textarea for
>>>>> display. I was hoping it would be fairly easy to do, as the 'Text
>>>>> Output' control is doing almost the same thing with a text field, but
>>>>> maybe it's more difficult :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon
>>>>>
>>>>> 2009/7/21 Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]>:
>>>>>> Simon,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Currently, XBL components do not actually have a WYSIWYG appearance in
>>>>>> Form Builder itself, so I think this will require a change to Form
>>>>>> Builder, because you will want a textarea to enter the text, right?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Erik
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Simon Goodchild<[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm building a solution using the Form Builder, and need my end-users
>>>>>>> to be able to add blocks of read-only descriptive text to the forms
>>>>>>> they create. None of the standard controls seem to give this option -
>>>>>>> the 'Text Output' control only allows 1 line of text, and making the
>>>>>>> standard 'Multi-Line Text' control read-only isn't very user-friendly.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've tried creating my own control in XBL (baed on the Multi-Line Text
>>>>>>> control), but have had a lot of trouble with it and am not sure if
>>>>>>> there is a better way.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Soes anyone have any suggestions or examples of how I might do this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Simon
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>

> In case anyone has any ideas, below are the configuration entries I'm
> currently using:
>
> For the XBL definition of the new component:
>    <xbl:binding id="fb-mloutput" element="xforms|mloutput">
>
>        <!-- Orbeon Form Builder Component Metadata -->
>        <metadata xmlns="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/form-builder">
>            <display-name lang="en">Multi-line Text Output</display-name>
>            <display-name lang="fr">Sortie texte</display-name>
>            <icon lang="en">
>
> <small-icon>/apps/fr/style/images/silk/text_align_left.png</small-icon>
>
> <large-icon>/apps/fr/style/images/silk/text_align_left.png</large-icon>
>            </icon>
>            <datatype>xs:string</datatype>
>            <template>
>                <xforms:mloutput id="" ref="" xmlns="">
>                    <xforms:label ref=""/>
>                    <xforms:help ref=""/>
>                    <!-- No hint? -->
>                    <xforms:alert ref="$fr-resources/detail/labels/alert"/>
>                </xforms:mloutput>
>            </template>
>        </metadata>
>    </xbl:binding>
>
> Within grid-cell-editor.xml to map the mloutput component to a
> textarea for inplace editing:
> <xforms:group ref="xforms:mloutput[not(@mediatype)]">
>   <!-- In-place text -->
>   <xforms:textarea id="fb-xforms-mloutput-text-input"
> ref="$instance-holder" appearance="fr:in-place" incremental="false" />
> </xforms:group>
>
>
> The results from these changes are that the new control appears in the
> left menu, and correctly invokes the inplace editing using a textarea.
> The problem comes when you preview the form, where nothing is
> displayed in the block for that control. I think it must be a problem
> with a lack of a binding to view the output outside of the form
> builder, but I don't know enough about how things are configured to be
> able to trace where to add this.
>
> One thing I've noted is that the standard fb-output control is mapped
> to an xforms:output element, whereas I have defined my own mloutput
> element. Maybe this is the wrong way to do it, but I can't find a way
> to map the textarea and normal output control together.
>
> Any help would be much appeciated.
>
> Simon
>
>
> 2009/8/2 Simon Goodchild <[hidden email]>:
>> Hi Erik,
>>
>> It does appear in the Form Builder interface (in the compenent menu on
>> the left and within the actual builder), and allows me to view/edit
>> the text that is displayed. But when I save and preview the form I
>> just get a blank space where that component should appear. All the
>> other components in my test form appear around this, so I just get a
>> blank space in the form.
>>
>> I can provide the source for the changes I have made if that helps - I
>> was going to contribute it back to the project once it's working
>> anyway.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> 2009/8/2 Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]>:
>>> Simon,
>>>
>>> Does your component appears in the Form Builder toolbox?
>>>
>>> It should also work at runtime then!
>>>
>>> -Erik
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Simon Goodchild<[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>> Thanks for the hint Erik. I now how the new group defined within
>>>> grid-cell-editor.xml, an my custom XBL component setup, so that I can
>>>> add the control in using the Form Builder. The textarea correctly
>>>> appears in the formbuilder for editing, but there is nothing displayed
>>>> when I actually test the form output. I'm assuming there's another
>>>> config file somewhere whih will map my new component to a view whe the
>>>> form is run, but haven't found anything yet. Any ideas to help me do
>>>> this?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>>> 2009/7/28 Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]>:
>>>>> I don't think it's *very* difficult to do, but again it requires a
>>>>> change to Form Builder. If you look at grid-cell-editor.xml in the
>>>>> source, you will see the following match for the text output control:
>>>>>
>>>>> <xforms:group ref="xforms:output[not(@mediatype)]">
>>>>>
>>>>> This is where Form Builder decides to place an input field to edit the text.
>>>>>
>>>>> Something similar would be needed to place a textarea for your control.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Erik
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Simon Goodchild<[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>>> Yes, I was thinking that a simple textarea was all that would be
>>>>>> needed on the Form Builder side, so I just need a way to transform
>>>>>> that content into a static text block in the generated form. I tried
>>>>>> doing this using an xsl transformation in a new XBL component, but
>>>>>> couldn't find a way to retrieve the content from the textarea for
>>>>>> display. I was hoping it would be fairly easy to do, as the 'Text
>>>>>> Output' control is doing almost the same thing with a text field, but
>>>>>> maybe it's more difficult :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Simon
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2009/7/21 Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]>:
>>>>>>> Simon,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Currently, XBL components do not actually have a WYSIWYG appearance in
>>>>>>> Form Builder itself, so I think this will require a change to Form
>>>>>>> Builder, because you will want a textarea to enter the text, right?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -Erik
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Simon Goodchild<[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm building a solution using the Form Builder, and need my end-users
>>>>>>>> to be able to add blocks of read-only descriptive text to the forms
>>>>>>>> they create. None of the standard controls seem to give this option -
>>>>>>>> the 'Text Output' control only allows 1 line of text, and making the
>>>>>>>> standard 'Multi-Line Text' control read-only isn't very user-friendly.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've tried creating my own control in XBL (baed on the Multi-Line Text
>>>>>>>> control), but have had a lot of trouble with it and am not sure if
>>>>>>>> there is a better way.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Soes anyone have any suggestions or examples of how I might do this?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Simon
>>>>>>>>
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