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Hasan

Select1 binding to instance in Form builder

Alex,

I am currently using Form Builder in Orbeon 3.7.1 dev version . I need to bind my select1 components to a url for drop down values.

Does Form Builder provides the functionality to get the item values from some URL/source.

Regards,

Hasan

Regards,
Hasan

Hank Ratzesberger-2

Re: Select1 binding to instance in Form builder

Hi Hasan,

You can use the src attribute to have the instance loaded :

<xforms:instance id="stations"
src="http://db.nees.ucsb.edu/exist/rest/db?_query=doc('/pub/stations.xml')"/>

The select control has an itemset with a nodeset attribute. Sorry that the
xpath and all looks complicated. Note that you can have both items and itemsets,
so you can have a "slect one" etc. :

<xforms:select1 ref="sta" id="sta-select">
<xforms:item>
<xforms:value/>
<xforms:label> Select Station ... </xforms:label>
</xforms:item>
<xforms:itemset nodeset="instance('stations')//pfarr[@name='Sta_Info']/pfarr">
<xforms:value value="upper-case(@name)"/>
<xforms:label><xforms:output value="concat(upper-case(@name),' - ',pfstring[@name='Description'])"/></xforms:label>
</xforms:itemset>
</xforms:select1>

<xforms:itemset nodeset="instance('stations')//pfarr[@name='Sta_Info']/pfarr">
<xforms:value value="upper-case(@name)"/>
<xforms:label><xforms:output value="concat(upper-case(@name),' - ',pfstring[@name='Description'])"/></xforms:label>
</xforms:itemset>

HTH,
Hank

On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:03 AM, Hasan wrote:

> Alex,
>
> I am currently using Form Builder in Orbeon 3.7.1 dev version . I need to
> bind my select1 components to a url for drop down values.
>
> Does Form Builder provides the functionality to get the item values from
> some URL/source.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Hasan
>
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Hank Ratzesberger
NEES@UCSB
Earth Research Institute
6707 Ellison Hall
University of California, Santa Barbara
805-893-8042

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Erik Bruchez

Re: Re: Select1 binding to instance in Form builder

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Hasan,

There is a service editor and an action editor which allow you to do this from Form Builder directly (although 3.7.1 is very old now, so I don't know the status of these editors in the version you are using).

Barring that, as Hank suggests, you can write custom XForms in the form to run a submission to load the data into an instance, and manually modify the select control's itemset to point to that instance.

-Erik

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Hank Ratzesberger <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Hasan,

You can use the src attribute to have the instance loaded :

<xforms:instance id="stations"
src="<a href="http://db.nees.ucsb.edu/exist/rest/db?_query=doc('/pub/stations.xml')" target="_blank">http://db.nees.ucsb.edu/exist/rest/db?_query=doc('/pub/stations.xml')"/>

The select control has an itemset with a nodeset attribute. Sorry that the
xpath and all looks complicated. Note that you can have both items and itemsets,
so you can have a "slect one" etc. :

<xforms:select1 ref="sta" id="sta-select">
<xforms:item>
<xforms:value/>
<xforms:label> Select Station ... </xforms:label>
</xforms:item>
<xforms:itemset nodeset="instance('stations')//pfarr[@name='Sta_Info']/pfarr">
<xforms:value value="upper-case(@name)"/>
<xforms:label><xforms:output value="concat(upper-case(@name),' - ',pfstring[@name='Description'])"/></xforms:label>
</xforms:itemset>
</xforms:select1>

<xforms:itemset nodeset="instance('stations')//pfarr[@name='Sta_Info']/pfarr">
<xforms:value value="upper-case(@name)"/>
<xforms:label><xforms:output value="concat(upper-case(@name),' - ',pfstring[@name='Description'])"/></xforms:label>
</xforms:itemset>

HTH,
Hank

On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:03 AM, Hasan wrote:

> Alex,
>
> I am currently using Form Builder in Orbeon 3.7.1 dev version . I need to
> bind my select1 components to a url for drop down values.
>
> Does Form Builder provides the functionality to get the item values from
> some URL/source.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Hasan
>
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> Hasan
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>

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Hasan

Re: Re: Select1 binding to instance in Form builder

I simpley created a select1 drop down, created a service . I want to bind the select1 control with a service that returns a xml itemset.

Select1 on form

Than i have created a http-service to some url. Testing this service returns response xml that is correct like

HTTP Service

Than a action is created and control is bind with for activation of form with the service.
Destination selection control itemset was given xpath.

Did i missed something or Xpath expression is not valid.

Is there any document/page on the orbeon wiki for the same.

Regards,
Hasan

Hasan

Re: Re: Select1 binding to instance in Form builder

The version that i am using is Orbeon Forms dev-post-3.7.1.201001012242 .

Regards,
Hasan