Posted by Michael_C on
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/How-to-move-from-Building-in-Form-Builder-to-handcoding-with-Form-Runner-tp932144.html

Hi,
I am new to XForms, and have been tasked with investigating how to create a Form containing a table and a number of drop down lists. The Drop down lists are used to populate the table. My idea was to use the XForms Builder to create an initial structure for the form, and then move to hand coding to add those components that the Forms Builder doesn't support directly, such as the table component (and my requirement to have at least six buttons in a line horizontally). I now have a number of questions relating to this:

1) Can Form Runner support elements that are not present in Form Builder, such as a table, or a grid with more than 4 elements horizontally?

2) If Form Runner can do this, how can I move from building my form in Form Builder to editing, testing and running it manually? What I need to do requires more work than I can do by clicking the Advanced->Edit Source button and tweaking details. I have read the Integration Notes and Persistence Layer page several times, but have not been able to work out what I need to do to test my form outside of the Builder context.

My apologies if these are very simple questions, but I have spent over a day and a half trying to figure out point (2) and am still baffled! Thanks in advance,
/Michael