Workflow Send button behavior

> Using: Orbeon Forms 3.8.0.201005141841 PE
>
> I've configured Orbeon to use a REST persistence layer. I've been doing some
> testing with a servlet, which responds with a bit of HTML to PUTs and POSTs.
>
> At my REST interface I want to be able to differentiate Saves from
> Submits/Sends and know the AppName/FormName of the form. I also want the
> user to see my HTML response. I'm having a lot of trouble configuring Orbeon
> to fulfill these requirements.
>
> After filling out the form and clicking Review I get to the view page.
> The first click of the Workflow Send button does a PUT to
> /persist/data/crud/Foo/Bar2/data/4dbdfe569cbffb96dc39b713ca2b22e3/data.xml
> However, I don't see the HTML being returned from the PUT request in the
> browser. Orbeon doesn't show any kind of confirmation of submission. All the
> browser displays is a swirl while the ajax call is in progress. It lets the
> user click send again, which they shouldn't be able to do. The 2nd (and
> later clicks) PUT to
> /persist/data/crud/Foo/Bar2/data/My-Confirmation-Page/data.xml, which is
> what I wanted originally. (To differentiate a Save from a Send) If I click
> Edit and then Review again, the Workflow send button PUT goes to
> /persist/data/crud/Foo/Bar2/data/My-Confirmation-Page/data.xml
>
> When I specify an absolute send.uri
> <property as="xs:anyURI" name="oxf.fr.detail.send.uri.*.*"
> value="http://path/to/my/servlet"/>
> It does a POST and I see the HTML response in the browser. However, now I
> have no way of know what app/form did the submit, so it's pretty useless.
>
> If I use the submit button there's no way of differentiating save clicks
> from submit clicks since they both go to the same PUT url.
>
> If I'm editing a form: /orbeon/fr/Foo/Bar2/edit/1234
> First Send: PUT /persist/data/crud/Foo/Bar2/data/1234/data.xml
> Second Send: PUT
> /persist/data/crud/Foo/Bar2/data/My-Confirmation-Page/data.xml
> The second send loses the document id (1234), so I know it's a final
> submission but I no longer know the user was editing a particular document.
>
> How do I configure the workflow send button to accomplish this?
>
> --
> Arlo White
> Application Management / ITS
> CalPoly, San Luis Obispo
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> Arlo,
>
> The idea of the workflow-send is that when you have a difference
> between save and submit:
>
> 1. Save just calls the persistence layer.
> 2. The persistence layer always does just a save; it doesn't implement
> any submit/send logic.
> 3. Submit or send (using workflow-send) saves, and posts the data to a
> page you implement.
> 4. You implement the submit/send logic in the page users get sent to
> when they do a a submit/send. You receive the whole document there,
> including the UUID, so you can update in the database if you want to
> mark it somehow as submitted. In that page, you can also generate HTML
> as appropriate to give some feedback to users, or redirect them to
> another page.

> Does this make sense? Does it fit your use case?
>
> Alex
>
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Arlo White<[hidden email]>  wrote:
>> Using: Orbeon Forms 3.8.0.201005141841 PE
>>
>> I've configured Orbeon to use a REST persistence layer. I've been doing some
>> testing with a servlet, which responds with a bit of HTML to PUTs and POSTs.
>>
>> At my REST interface I want to be able to differentiate Saves from
>> Submits/Sends and know the AppName/FormName of the form. I also want the
>> user to see my HTML response. I'm having a lot of trouble configuring Orbeon
>> to fulfill these requirements.
>>
>> After filling out the form and clicking Review I get to the view page.
>> The first click of the Workflow Send button does a PUT to
>> /persist/data/crud/Foo/Bar2/data/4dbdfe569cbffb96dc39b713ca2b22e3/data.xml
>> However, I don't see the HTML being returned from the PUT request in the
>> browser. Orbeon doesn't show any kind of confirmation of submission. All the
>> browser displays is a swirl while the ajax call is in progress. It lets the
>> user click send again, which they shouldn't be able to do. The 2nd (and
>> later clicks) PUT to
>> /persist/data/crud/Foo/Bar2/data/My-Confirmation-Page/data.xml, which is
>> what I wanted originally. (To differentiate a Save from a Send) If I click
>> Edit and then Review again, the Workflow send button PUT goes to
>> /persist/data/crud/Foo/Bar2/data/My-Confirmation-Page/data.xml
>>
>> When I specify an absolute send.uri
>> <property as="xs:anyURI" name="oxf.fr.detail.send.uri.*.*"
>> value="http://path/to/my/servlet"/>
>> It does a POST and I see the HTML response in the browser. However, now I
>> have no way of know what app/form did the submit, so it's pretty useless.
>>
>> If I use the submit button there's no way of differentiating save clicks
>> from submit clicks since they both go to the same PUT url.
>>
>> If I'm editing a form: /orbeon/fr/Foo/Bar2/edit/1234
>> First Send: PUT /persist/data/crud/Foo/Bar2/data/1234/data.xml
>> Second Send: PUT
>> /persist/data/crud/Foo/Bar2/data/My-Confirmation-Page/data.xml
>> The second send loses the document id (1234), so I know it's a final
>> submission but I no longer know the user was editing a particular document.
>>
>> How do I configure the workflow send button to accomplish this?
>>
>> --
>> Arlo White
>> Application Management / ITS
>> CalPoly, San Luis Obispo
>> [hidden email]
>>
>>
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>>
>
>

> On 11/24/2010 06:52 PM, Alessandro Vernet wrote:
>>
>> Arlo,
>>
>> The idea of the workflow-send is that when you have a difference
>> between save and submit:
>>
>> 1. Save just calls the persistence layer.
>> 2. The persistence layer always does just a save; it doesn't implement
>> any submit/send logic.
>> 3. Submit or send (using workflow-send) saves, and posts the data to a
>> page you implement.
>> 4. You implement the submit/send logic in the page users get sent to
>> when they do a a submit/send. You receive the whole document there,
>> including the UUID, so you can update in the database if you want to
>> mark it somehow as submitted. In that page, you can also generate HTML
>> as appropriate to give some feedback to users, or redirect them to
>> another page.
>
> I didn't see the App name, Form name, or document id in the POST body.
>
> I ended up unzipping orbeon-form-runner.jar, modifying persistence-model.xml
> and adding app/form/document to the resource url:
>
> <xforms:submission id="fr-workflow-confirmation-submission"
>        resource="{xxforms:property(string-join(('oxf.fr.detail.send.uri',
> $app, $form), '.'))}/{$app}/{$form}/{$document}"
>        method="post" ref="if (instance('fr-workflow-confirmation-instance')
> != '') then instance('fr-workflow-confirmation-instance') else
> xxforms:instance('fr-form-instance')"
>        replace="all" xxforms:ensure-uploads="false"/>
>
> This should work for me, I just wish it was configurable instead of having
> to go modify the code.
>>
>> Does this make sense? Does it fit your use case?
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Arlo White<[hidden email]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Using: Orbeon Forms 3.8.0.201005141841 PE
>>>
>>> I've configured Orbeon to use a REST persistence layer. I've been doing
>>> some
>>> testing with a servlet, which responds with a bit of HTML to PUTs and
>>> POSTs.
>>>
>>> At my REST interface I want to be able to differentiate Saves from
>>> Submits/Sends and know the AppName/FormName of the form. I also want the
>>> user to see my HTML response. I'm having a lot of trouble configuring
>>> Orbeon
>>> to fulfill these requirements.
>>>
>>> After filling out the form and clicking Review I get to the view page.
>>> The first click of the Workflow Send button does a PUT to
>>>
>>> /persist/data/crud/Foo/Bar2/data/4dbdfe569cbffb96dc39b713ca2b22e3/data.xml
>>> However, I don't see the HTML being returned from the PUT request in the
>>> browser. Orbeon doesn't show any kind of confirmation of submission. All
>>> the
>>> browser displays is a swirl while the ajax call is in progress. It lets
>>> the
>>> user click send again, which they shouldn't be able to do. The 2nd (and
>>> later clicks) PUT to
>>> /persist/data/crud/Foo/Bar2/data/My-Confirmation-Page/data.xml, which is
>>> what I wanted originally. (To differentiate a Save from a Send) If I
>>> click
>>> Edit and then Review again, the Workflow send button PUT goes to
>>> /persist/data/crud/Foo/Bar2/data/My-Confirmation-Page/data.xml
>>>
>>> When I specify an absolute send.uri
>>> <property as="xs:anyURI" name="oxf.fr.detail.send.uri.*.*"
>>> value="http://path/to/my/servlet"/>
>>> It does a POST and I see the HTML response in the browser. However, now I
>>> have no way of know what app/form did the submit, so it's pretty useless.
>>>
>>> If I use the submit button there's no way of differentiating save clicks
>>> from submit clicks since they both go to the same PUT url.
>>>
>>> If I'm editing a form: /orbeon/fr/Foo/Bar2/edit/1234
>>> First Send: PUT /persist/data/crud/Foo/Bar2/data/1234/data.xml
>>> Second Send: PUT
>>> /persist/data/crud/Foo/Bar2/data/My-Confirmation-Page/data.xml
>>> The second send loses the document id (1234), so I know it's a final
>>> submission but I no longer know the user was editing a particular
>>> document.
>>>
>>> How do I configure the workflow send button to accomplish this?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Arlo White
>>> Application Management / ITS
>>> CalPoly, San Luis Obispo
>>> [hidden email]
>>>
>>>
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>>> list.
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>>>
>>
>>
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