XForm to HTML conversion using API

Jigar,

In that case I think you would just use a plain link. For example:

/orbeon/fr/[APP]/[FORM]/new

where APP and FORM are the app and form names.

Simply following that link opens the Form Runner "new" page for that form.

-Erik

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:53 PM, JigarJoshi <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Erik,
>
> Thanks you,
>
> Yes it would be the best to have that API,
>
> But it seems proxying would do the job for now,
>
> Scenario :
>
> I have two app deployed in my servlet container (Orbeon & MyApp)
>
> I have built two forms (formA & formB) using formbuilder from orbeon's
> interface and stored them to MySQL DB as an xml representation
>
> Now Myapp wants to have access to those forms so I could query MySQL and
> show the form name & app name
>
> Clicking on that My App wants to load the HTML that we get when we click
> test from form builder, So in this case if I have formName&appName how do I
> fetch the HTML in iFrame?
>
> Once I get that iFrame I submit the data and it would get stored in the
> MySQL DB (Orbeon DB)
>
> Please confirm my understanding with this and also let me know how can I
> fetch HTML related to from form&App name (not strictly these two field any
> identifier would work
>
>
> Thanks!
> Jigar
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Erik Bruchez [via Orbeon Forms (ops-users)]

> <[hidden email]> wrote:

>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As I understand it you are asking two different questions:
>>
>> 1. Can you embed the form in your app?
>> 2. Can you just run HTML, without the Orbeon Forms runtime?
>>
>> Please let me know if I misunderstood.
>>
>> On #1:
>>
>> Currently embedding of Orbeon Forms forms (including those generated
>> by Form Builder) is limited to portlets and the TYPO3 extension. Some
>> customers have written their own embedding code, partly based on the
>> documentation here:
>>
>> Embedding and Proxying Orbeon Forms
>> http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/contributor-guide/proxying-orbeon-forms

>>
>> So we don't have an embedding API at this time, but it would be great
>> to have one.
>>
>> On #2, some posts on the need for a runtime in Orbeon Forms:
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/how-orbeon-forms-works-part-i
>> http://blog.orbeon.com/2012/02/does-xforms-need-to-be-implemented.html

>>
>> So no, you can't just convert the form to HTML and expect it to run.
>> The runtime is needed.
>>
>> #1 can and should be addressed better in the future. #2 is a non-starter.
>>
>> For now you can use iframes (not great we know), or load forms side by
>> side with other pages in your app. That is certainly possible.
>>
>> -Erik
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:04 PM, JigarJoshi <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I want to use Orbeon's form builder to build up the forms and In my app
>> > I
>> > want to show them so is there any api support available in orbeon using
>> > which I can convert stored xform (built by form builder) to HTML and
>> > render
>> > it as a part of my application
>> >
>> >
>> > -
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