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Dustin Henson-2

Hidden Field?

I have a setting called editMode I want to pass between pages to track what the user is aloud to edit. This field has no home in the XML and normally I would pass it as a hidden field on the form. I found reference to the <xxforms:hidden> tag that may do the same thing in xforms, but I can't find the documentation for it.

Is <xxforms:hidden> the right way to pass this kind of meta data between pages or is there a better way to handle it? If it is can anyone point me to the documentation?

Thanks,
Dustin

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Erik Bruchez

Re: Hidden Field?

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Dustin,

xxforms:hidden is no longer supported in Orbeon Forms (it is part of
the old "Classic" XForms engine which we don't develop anymore).

There are different ways of passing this kind of information between
pages:

* Through a URL parameter you pass with a link or xforms:load
* In data which you submit (POST) from one page to the other with
xforms:submission
* In the session (usually not a good idea)

So you actually don't need a hidden control in the page to represent
information.

-Erik

On Apr 10, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Dustin Henson wrote:

> I have a setting called editMode I want to pass between pages to
> track what the user is aloud to edit. This field has no home in the
> XML and normally I would pass it as a hidden field on the form. I
> found reference to the <xxforms:hidden> tag that may do the same
> thing in xforms, but I can't find the documentation for it.
>
> Is <xxforms:hidden> the right way to pass this kind of meta data
> between pages or is there a better way to handle it? If it is can
> anyone point me to the documentation?
>
> Thanks,
> Dustin

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Dustin Henson-2

Re: Re: Hidden Field?

Hi Erik,

Thanks for the help. I got it working.

FYI: I added the data fields as parameters on the url, '?editMode=true&userName=bob'. The catch was that Orbeon appears to map the URL into an xml document prior to constructing the final HTML. To get it to work I had to escape the '&', '?editMode=true&serName=bob'.

-Dustin

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]> wrote:

Dustin,

xxforms:hidden is no longer supported in Orbeon Forms (it is part of the old "Classic" XForms engine which we don't develop anymore).

There are different ways of passing this kind of information between pages:

* Through a URL parameter you pass with a link or xforms:load
* In data which you submit (POST) from one page to the other with xforms:submission
* In the session (usually not a good idea)

So you actually don't need a hidden control in the page to represent information.

-Erik

On Apr 10, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Dustin Henson wrote:

I have a setting called editMode I want to pass between pages to track what the user is aloud to edit. This field has no home in the XML and normally I would pass it as a hidden field on the form. I found reference to the <xxforms:hidden> tag that may do the same thing in xforms, but I can't find the documentation for it.

Is <xxforms:hidden> the right way to pass this kind of meta data between pages or is there a better way to handle it? If it is can anyone point me to the documentation?

Thanks,
Dustin

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