PDF Templates: Values are not correctly set

>
> Hi!
>
> I played around with creating PDF templates with OpenOffice, and figured out
> some problems:
>
> * Setting values of radio buttons are working, check boxes doesn't work
> * When using "Fields Date" component, the correspondant field in PDF is left
> empty
> * When there are multiple fields in the PDF referencing one form field, only
> the first one is filled out
>
> I'm not sure if these are really bugs, or if I am doing something wrong. To
> reproduce my problem, I have created an example form:
> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/fr/test/test12345/edit/80813c34b82774c01cb617c473975689
> Just press the PDF button and you see that many fields are just not filled
> out. Find attached the template as PDF and OpenOffice ODT.
>
> http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1690347/xforms.odt xforms.odt
> http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1690347/xforms.pdf xforms.pdf
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> Hi,
>
> The PDF you attached was incorrectly setup for checkboxes: the name
> for both checkboxes should be the same (it was section$check and
> section$check1) and the export value should be the value you set in
> XForms (foo and bar). Maybe this is because of OpenOffice?
>
> But while testing this I hit some other issue with attachment, so
> we'll be working on resolving those first.
>
> Alex
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:33 AM, lacco <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I played around with creating PDF templates with OpenOffice, and figured out
>> some problems:
>>
>> * Setting values of radio buttons are working, check boxes doesn't work
>> * When using "Fields Date" component, the correspondant field in PDF is left
>> empty
>> * When there are multiple fields in the PDF referencing one form field, only
>> the first one is filled out
>>
>> I'm not sure if these are really bugs, or if I am doing something wrong. To
>> reproduce my problem, I have created an example form:
>> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/fr/test/test12345/edit/80813c34b82774c01cb617c473975689
>> Just press the PDF button and you see that many fields are just not filled
>> out. Find attached the template as PDF and OpenOffice ODT.
>>
>> http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1690347/xforms.odt xforms.odt
>> http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1690347/xforms.pdf xforms.pdf
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> Thx for your answer!
>
> You seem to be right, OpenOffice converts check boxes and text fields
> with duplicated field names into section$check1 and section$street1
> etc. That seems to be the origin for two of my three issues, so I will
> do some postprocessing or using Adobe Acrobat.
>
> Do you have any idea why my date text field isn't set correctly when
> using field date control?
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Alessandro Vernet <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The PDF you attached was incorrectly setup for checkboxes: the name
>> for both checkboxes should be the same (it was section$check and
>> section$check1) and the export value should be the value you set in
>> XForms (foo and bar). Maybe this is because of OpenOffice?
>>
>> But while testing this I hit some other issue with attachment, so
>> we'll be working on resolving those first.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:33 AM, lacco <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I played around with creating PDF templates with OpenOffice, and figured out
>>> some problems:
>>>
>>> * Setting values of radio buttons are working, check boxes doesn't work
>>> * When using "Fields Date" component, the correspondant field in PDF is left
>>> empty
>>> * When there are multiple fields in the PDF referencing one form field, only
>>> the first one is filled out
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if these are really bugs, or if I am doing something wrong. To
>>> reproduce my problem, I have created an example form:
>>> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/fr/test/test12345/edit/80813c34b82774c01cb617c473975689
>>> Just press the PDF button and you see that many fields are just not filled
>>> out. Find attached the template as PDF and OpenOffice ODT.
>>>
>>> http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1690347/xforms.odt xforms.odt
>>> http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1690347/xforms.pdf xforms.pdf
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> For the date field, are you talking about the additional "3 24 2010"
> on http://screencast.com/t/ZTMzZTk3M? I added a bug for that:
>
> http://forge.ow2.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=314861&group_id=168&atid=350207
>
> Alex
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:13 PM,  <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Thx for your answer!
>>
>> You seem to be right, OpenOffice converts check boxes and text fields
>> with duplicated field names into section$check1 and section$street1
>> etc. That seems to be the origin for two of my three issues, so I will
>> do some postprocessing or using Adobe Acrobat.
>>
>> Do you have any idea why my date text field isn't set correctly when
>> using field date control?
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Alessandro Vernet <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The PDF you attached was incorrectly setup for checkboxes: the name
>>> for both checkboxes should be the same (it was section$check and
>>> section$check1) and the export value should be the value you set in
>>> XForms (foo and bar). Maybe this is because of OpenOffice?
>>>
>>> But while testing this I hit some other issue with attachment, so
>>> we'll be working on resolving those first.
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:33 AM, lacco <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I played around with creating PDF templates with OpenOffice, and figured out
>>>> some problems:
>>>>
>>>> * Setting values of radio buttons are working, check boxes doesn't work
>>>> * When using "Fields Date" component, the correspondant field in PDF is left
>>>> empty
>>>> * When there are multiple fields in the PDF referencing one form field, only
>>>> the first one is filled out
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if these are really bugs, or if I am doing something wrong. To
>>>> reproduce my problem, I have created an example form:
>>>> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/fr/test/test12345/edit/80813c34b82774c01cb617c473975689
>>>> Just press the PDF button and you see that many fields are just not filled
>>>> out. Find attached the template as PDF and OpenOffice ODT.
>>>>
>>>> http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1690347/xforms.odt xforms.odt
>>>> http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1690347/xforms.pdf xforms.pdf
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> Indeed, this is a bug when no custom template is specified. But in the
> latter case (when a PDF template is applied), the date field is not
> filled in *at all*.
>
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Alessandro Vernet <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> For the date field, are you talking about the additional "3 24 2010"
>> on http://screencast.com/t/ZTMzZTk3M? I added a bug for that:
>>
>> http://forge.ow2.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=314861&group_id=168&atid=350207
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:13 PM,  <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> Thx for your answer!
>>>
>>> You seem to be right, OpenOffice converts check boxes and text fields
>>> with duplicated field names into section$check1 and section$street1
>>> etc. That seems to be the origin for two of my three issues, so I will
>>> do some postprocessing or using Adobe Acrobat.
>>>
>>> Do you have any idea why my date text field isn't set correctly when
>>> using field date control?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Alessandro Vernet <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The PDF you attached was incorrectly setup for checkboxes: the name
>>>> for both checkboxes should be the same (it was section$check and
>>>> section$check1) and the export value should be the value you set in
>>>> XForms (foo and bar). Maybe this is because of OpenOffice?
>>>>
>>>> But while testing this I hit some other issue with attachment, so
>>>> we'll be working on resolving those first.
>>>>
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:33 AM, lacco <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> I played around with creating PDF templates with OpenOffice, and figured out
>>>>> some problems:
>>>>>
>>>>> * Setting values of radio buttons are working, check boxes doesn't work
>>>>> * When using "Fields Date" component, the correspondant field in PDF is left
>>>>> empty
>>>>> * When there are multiple fields in the PDF referencing one form field, only
>>>>> the first one is filled out
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure if these are really bugs, or if I am doing something wrong. To
>>>>> reproduce my problem, I have created an example form:
>>>>> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/fr/test/test12345/edit/80813c34b82774c01cb617c473975689
>>>>> Just press the PDF button and you see that many fields are just not filled
>>>>> out. Find attached the template as PDF and OpenOffice ODT.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1690347/xforms.odt xforms.odt
>>>>> http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1690347/xforms.pdf xforms.pdf
>>>>> --
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>>>>>
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> Understood; I added this bug to track this:
>
> http://forge.ow2.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=314865&group_id=168&atid=350207
>
> In this meantime, I can only recommend to use a regular date field.
>
> Alex
>
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:05 PM,  <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Indeed, this is a bug when no custom template is specified. But in the
>> latter case (when a PDF template is applied), the date field is not
>> filled in *at all*.
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Alessandro Vernet <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> For the date field, are you talking about the additional "3 24 2010"
>>> on http://screencast.com/t/ZTMzZTk3M? I added a bug for that:
>>>
>>> http://forge.ow2.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=314861&group_id=168&atid=350207
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:13 PM,  <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>> Thx for your answer!
>>>>
>>>> You seem to be right, OpenOffice converts check boxes and text fields
>>>> with duplicated field names into section$check1 and section$street1
>>>> etc. That seems to be the origin for two of my three issues, so I will
>>>> do some postprocessing or using Adobe Acrobat.
>>>>
>>>> Do you have any idea why my date text field isn't set correctly when
>>>> using field date control?
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Alessandro Vernet <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> The PDF you attached was incorrectly setup for checkboxes: the name
>>>>> for both checkboxes should be the same (it was section$check and
>>>>> section$check1) and the export value should be the value you set in
>>>>> XForms (foo and bar). Maybe this is because of OpenOffice?
>>>>>
>>>>> But while testing this I hit some other issue with attachment, so
>>>>> we'll be working on resolving those first.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alex
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:33 AM, lacco <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I played around with creating PDF templates with OpenOffice, and figured out
>>>>>> some problems:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * Setting values of radio buttons are working, check boxes doesn't work
>>>>>> * When using "Fields Date" component, the correspondant field in PDF is left
>>>>>> empty
>>>>>> * When there are multiple fields in the PDF referencing one form field, only
>>>>>> the first one is filled out
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not sure if these are really bugs, or if I am doing something wrong. To
>>>>>> reproduce my problem, I have created an example form:
>>>>>> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/fr/test/test12345/edit/80813c34b82774c01cb617c473975689
>>>>>> Just press the PDF button and you see that many fields are just not filled
>>>>>> out. Find attached the template as PDF and OpenOffice ODT.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1690347/xforms.odt xforms.odt
>>>>>> http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1690347/xforms.pdf xforms.pdf
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>>>>>>
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