prevent pdf from being sent to success page

Hi.

I have made a success page (xforms) that parses certain information* from the xml data being sent to it from forms created with Orbeon Form Builder (and ran by Orbeon Form Runner).

*(A form specific "success text", that's stored in a hidden section)

The FR is configured so that after clicking 'send' on the summary page it sends a notification mail for the customer based on email he/she provides and a copy to customer services. The emails are being sent and the success page is displayed correctly with the intended information.

However the emails sent do not contain nothing but a default confirmation text (not any data from the form). I would like to have a summary of the data provided by the user with the email.

Question 1) Is there a way to configure this somehow, so that the email body contains the summary (same data as on the summary page)?

One possible solution would be to attach a pdf with the emails, which seem to contain same data as on the summary page.
I can get the pdfs attached by changing this line from our properties-local.xml
<property as="xs:boolean" name="oxf.fr.email.attach-pdf.*.*" value="false"/>
from false to true.
But now the success page won't work as it seems that the data is sent for the success page in a pdf-file also (and it can't parse it by default)!?

Question 2) How do I prevent FR from sending the pdf to success page, but include it with the email?

I found one possible solution (hack) for this too. I could use the pdf-extraction-processor on the success page:
http://dl.lib.brown.edu:8083/ops/doc/processors-pdf-extraction
But since the pdf emailed does not contain the hidden fields from the forms, I would suspect that neither will the pdf sent for the success page, so I haven't even tried this option yet.

Then one more thing we would like to be able to do is to specify the email body (or pdf) contents completely in the form created with the Orbeon Form Builder (just to select some specific information to display in the email/pdf).

Question 3) There is an option "Show in Summary" with the form fields. If I leave this unselected I would expect that the information is not included on the summary page nor in the pdf generated for the email, yet there it is. Is this a bug?

Question 4) Also if there is a hidden field on the form and I select the option "Show in Summary" for it, I would assume it would be then shown on the summary (and pdf). But it is not. Is this also a bug?

There is one more thing we may need to do with the emails. This is to send distinct emails for the customer and for the customer services.
For this I found an older posting from which I understood that this isn't possible.
(Putting this info here just as a note.)

Question 5) Just checking if this this is still true that there is no way to send two distinct emails from a single form (made with form builder)?

The solution for all our problems would be using "hand made" xforms applications, maybe with some custom Java servlets... Something I could live with...
Unfortunately our regular (to-be) Orbeon users have limited technical skills, thus trying to teach them to use xforms may be a bit too much (not even to speak about making Java services). Therefore it would be nice if there would be some way to accomplish these things right from the Orbeon Form Builder.

Ethereal,

> *Question 1)* Is there a way to configure this somehow, so that the email
> body contains the summary (same data as on the summary page)?

Out of the box, no: the email text is statically defined. For
reference, here is the code in charge of sending the email:

https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/blob/master/src/resources/apps/fr/email/email-form.xpl

> One possible solution would be to attach a pdf with the emails, which seem
> to contain same data as on the summary page.
> I can get the pdfs attached by changing this line from our
> properties-local.xml
> <property as="xs:boolean" name="oxf.fr.email.attach-pdf.*.*" value="false"/>
> from false to true.
> But now the success page won't work as it seems that the data is sent for
> the success page in a pdf-file also (and it can't parse it by default)!?

I thought we had fixed this issue a while back, but apparently not!
For historical reasons, let's say, when a PDF is generated, instead of
sending the form data, the PDF URL is sent to the confirmation page.

> *Question 2)* How do I prevent FR from sending the pdf to success page, but
> include it with the email?
>
> I found one possible solution (hack) for this too. I could use the
> pdf-extraction-processor on the success page:
> http://dl.lib.brown.edu:8083/ops/doc/processors-pdf-extraction
> But since the pdf emailed does not contain the hidden fields from the forms,
> I would suspect that neither will the pdf sent for the success page, so I
> haven't even tried this option yet.

I don't think that would work! Easier would be to patch
persistence-model.xml to prevent sending the PDF URL to the success
page. This is the line that does it at this time:

https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/blob/master/src/resources/apps/fr/includes/persistence/persistence-model.xml#L636

Removing the condition and always send
xxforms:instance('fr-form-instance') should work.

> Then one more thing we would like to be able to do is to specify the email
> body (or pdf) contents completely in the form created with the Orbeon Form
> Builder (just to select some specific information to display in the
> email/pdf).
>
> *Question 3)* There is an option "Show in Summary" with the form fields. If
> I leave this unselected I would expect that the information is not included
> on the summary page nor in the pdf generated for the email, yet there it is.
> Is this a bug?

This options controls whether the field shows in the summary page, so…
it should definitely not show in the summary page, but it has nothing
to do with PDF generation.

> *Question 4)* Also if there is a hidden field on the form and I select the
> option "Show in Summary" for it, I would assume it would be then shown on
> the summary (and pdf). But it is not. Is this also a bug?

It should show in the summary page.

> There is one more thing we may need to do with the emails. This is to send
> distinct emails for the customer and for the customer services.
> For this I found an older posting from which I understood that this isn't
> possible.
> (Putting this info here just as a note.)
>
> *Question 5)* Just checking if this this is still true that there is no way
> to send two distinct emails from a single form (made with form builder)?

If the addresses are statically defined, you can set them in the
oxf.fr.email.to.*.* property:

http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/configuration-properties/configuration-properties-form-runner#TOC-Email-settings

> The solution for all our problems would be using "hand made" xforms
> applications, maybe with some custom Java servlets... Something I could live
> with...
> Unfortunately our regular (to-be) Orbeon users have limited technical
> skills, thus trying to teach them to use xforms may be a bit too much (not
> even to speak about making Java services). Therefore it would be nice if
> there would be some way to accomplish these things right from the Orbeon
> Form Builder.

It seems that what you want to do consists mostly of incremental
improvements or fixes to Form Builder/Form Runner, so it would be a
shame to reinvent the world instead.

-Erik


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Hi.

Thanks for giving some insight.

I think I should be able to proceed with this information.

Regarding to this:

> *Question 4)* Also if there is a hidden field on the form and I select the
> option "Show in Summary" for it, I would assume it would be then shown on
> the summary (and pdf). But it is not. Is this also a bug?

* It should show in the summary page.


I just tried this again (for reproducing guide).

- Make the summary page part of work flow from properties-local.xml
- Create a new input text field with predefined content
- Selected "Show in Summary"
- Put value "false" for "Visible" option
- Publish the form and go to new form page
- Fill in the form, move to summary => the contents of the hidden field are not shown