Orbeon Forms community mailing list - Re: Accessing the form's metadata and being able to add custom metadata

Re: Accessing the form's metadata and being able to add custom metadata

Posted by DL on Jan 18, 2011; 10:39am
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/Accessing-the-form-s-metadata-and-being-able-to-add-custom-metadata-tp3221052p3221307.html

Out of curiosity I searched the forum and found these two threads .. there might be other ways ..

http://orbeon-forms-ops-users.24843.n4.nabble.com/Integrating-custom-jsps-with-Orbeon-Form-Runner-td3010153.html

http://orbeon-forms-ops-users.24843.n4.nabble.com/including-the-form-name-in-the-submitted-XML-workflow-send-td2327974.html#a2538958

From the second thread above it seems that there is some project in the orbeon team's work in progress ..

http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/projects/form-runner-builder/form-runner-data-envelope

Rationale

Form Runner currently receives and sends form data only, as an XML document. Metadata such as form name, app name, document UUID, are provided via request parameters.

For more advanced applications, including workflow-based applications, this is not enough as the amount of metadata increases.

We propose to allow Form Runner to encapsulate form data within a Form Runner-specific envelope, which can contain this type of metadata.