Passing parameters to section templates

Hi,

Is it possible to pass parameters to section templates?
E.g. I want to create a section template "Person". Depending on the type of the person ("natural person" vs "legal entity") I want to show different input fields. But most of the fields will be the same for both person types.
Can you please give me a hint how to do it best?

thx,
Martin

Hi Martin,

At this point, this is not supported (section templates don't have a configuration). Of course, for the use case you mentioned, you could create two section templates, one for "natural person" and one for "legal entity". But I imagine you wanted to avoid that; if that's the case, the only way right now would be for you to create an XBL component instead of using a section template. Does this make sense?

Alex

Yes, I wanted to avoid duplicate code. I also thought about writing my own configurable person XBL component and came to the conclusion to give it a try.
In general I think passing parameters to section templates would be a nice feature. Maybe you can think of it for a future release...

Thank you,
Martin

I would agree with this. We have a need to maintain a "contact details" section template for use in most of our forms. However each of our forms have different requirements for which section template fields are mandatory/optional, so we end up not using the section template.

-Stian


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Hi Stian, Martin,

The use cases you mention do make a lot of sense, and I created an RFE for this:

https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/issues/1922

Alex