how to use the "new" xforms help in 4.5 ?

Hello,

I test Orbeon 4.5, and I have a problem with xf:help: there is an javascript error if the xf:input field has no xf:label : it is normal ?
Because we don't use xf:label on own application.

And I thought the appearance of the field help was parameterized with oxf.xforms.help.appearance properties, but which value can I put ? and what is the result ?

thank You.

Julien

Hi Julien,

If you see a JavaScript error, it could be because of a bug in Orbeon Forms. Could you share with us a sort-of minimal example that we can run to reproduce this?

Alex

It is simple : a input field without xf:label.
an example join in this mail.

the error is :
"labelElement is null"
on line 1879 in xforms.js

Thank You
Julien
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Hi Julien,

If you see a JavaScript error, it could be because of a bug in Orbeon Forms.
Could you share with us a sort-of minimal example that we can run to
reproduce this?

Alex

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Hi Julien,

I was able to reproduce this, and created a bug for this. Since this is a regression, we'll definitely try to fix this for 4.6 (if not 4.5.1). For now I just created this issue:

https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/issues/1713

Alex

Hi Alessandro ,

Thank you for this.
I have two other questions :
how to use the property help.appearance ?
And it is possible to activate the old appareance of xf:help ?

Thank you

Julien

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Hi Julien,

#1713 is fixed and we will put that in 4.5.1 since this is a very simple fix. Sorry for the regression!

You can't get the old appearance anymore. We implemented this new appearance because it is modern (both as far as its appearance goes, and the technologies used, i.e. Bootstrap instead of YUI), it isn't model, and allows longer pieces of text to be shown, properly handling scrolling. Now of course, it doesn't mean it is perfect, so you'll let us know if you'd like to see any improvements.

Alex