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James Hiebert

Form Builder docs?

Hi All,

I have some beginners questions about Orbeon Form Builder. Is there yet
anything written about Form Builder in the Orbeon user's manual. If there
is, I can't find it, so I'd appreciate a pointer in the right direction.

If docs don't yet exist, could someone answer a quick question:

I'm trying to build a simple, simple form (1 section, 1 grid, 1 optional
element). I am unable to save the form (Save button is grayed out and
inactive) and the red exclaimation icon in the lower left hand of the screen
indicates that there are errors on the form, however there seems to be no
listing of what said errors are (preventing me from fixing them). Am I
missing something really easy?

~James

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gbagoly

Re: Form Builder docs?

Hi James,

You can save your form after you filled in the Metadata/Application name & Form Name + Form Title & Form Description.

gb

James Hiebert wrote

Hi All,

I have some beginners questions about Orbeon Form Builder. Is there yet
anything written about Form Builder in the Orbeon user's manual. If there
is, I can't find it, so I'd appreciate a pointer in the right direction.

If docs don't yet exist, could someone answer a quick question:

I'm trying to build a simple, simple form (1 section, 1 grid, 1 optional
element). I am unable to save the form (Save button is grayed out and
inactive) and the red exclaimation icon in the lower left hand of the screen
indicates that there are errors on the form, however there seems to be no
listing of what said errors are (preventing me from fixing them). Am I
missing something really easy?

~James

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Alessandro Vernet

Re: Form Builder docs?

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James,

On Oct 20, 2008, at 10:14 AM, James Hiebert wrote:

> I'm trying to build a simple, simple form (1 section, 1 grid, 1
> optional
> element). I am unable to save the form (Save button is grayed out and
> inactive) and the red exclaimation icon in the lower left hand of
> the screen
> indicates that there are errors on the form, however there seems to
> be no
> listing of what said errors are (preventing me from fixing them).
> Am I
> missing something really easy?

You are missing something, but it is not something easy, as we get
this question quite frequently :). So often that despite the lack of
documentation about Form Builder, we have entry in the FAQ about this:

http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/home-faq#d57e674

This is definitely something that we should improve in the near future.

The documentation for Form Builder will be developed here as we go, so
you might want to check back that page in the future:

http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/user-guide/form-builder-user-guide

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