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bwallis42

xbl and fb:control-details

I'm building an xbl control that requires some pre-configured values at design time. These preconfigured values come from a web service and I have another control (similar to dynamic data dropdown) that lets me select a value.

I would like to use the second control in the control settings so I tried that in the fb:control-details section but that seems to only allow input controls. Is there a way to use other controls in the control settings dialog?

I've been using the following for testing. There are 4 items in the control-details. The first and last are inputs, the second is a standard select1 and the third is my custom control. Only the first and fourth ones display when the control settings dialog is displayed.

        <fb:metadata xmlns="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/form-builder">
            <fb:display-name lang="en">Codeset Dropdown</fb:display-name>
            <fb:icon lang="en">
                <fb:small-icon>/forms/orbeon/builder/images/dropdown.png</fb:small-icon>
                <fb:large-icon>/forms/orbeon/builder/images/dropdown.png</fb:large-icon>
            </fb:icon>
            <fb:datatype>xs:string</fb:datatype>
            <fb:template>
                <im:codeset-select1 id="" appearance="minimal" ref="" xmlns="" ColorCode="" codeset="" category="">
                    <xf:label ref="" />
                    <xf:hint ref="" />
                    <xf:help ref="" />
                    <xf:alert ref="$fr-resources/detail/labels/alert" />
                </im:codeset-select1>
            </fb:template>
            <fb:control-details>
                <xf:input ref="@codeset">
                    <xf:label>Select the codeset</xf:label>
                    <xf:hint>The codeset</xf:hint>
                </xf:input>
                <xf:select1 ref="@ColorCode" appearance="full">
                    <xf:item>
                        <xf:label>Red</xf:label>
                        <xf:value>red</xf:value>
                    </xf:item>
                    <xf:item>
                        <xf:label>Orange</xf:label>
                        <xf:value>orange</xf:value>
                    </xf:item>
                </xf:select1>
                <im:codeset-index-select1 ref="@codeset">
                    <xf:label>Select a codeset</xf:label>
                    <xf:hint>Format is ns:codeset where ns is the namespace and codeset is the name of the required codeset</xf:hint>
                </im:codeset-index-select1>
                <xf:input ref="@category">
                    <xf:label>Select the category within the codeset</xf:label>
                    <xf:hint>The category is a name of a set of entries in the codeset</xf:hint>
                </xf:input>
            </fb:control-details>
        </fb:metadata>

Alessandro Vernet

Re: xbl and fb:control-details

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Hi Brian,

At this point, as you've noted, you can only use inputs in the
preferences. This is done in the section of dialog-control-details.xbl
linked below. You can see there that the code generates an xf:input if
it finds an xf:input under fb:control-details. Now you could add code
there in dialog-control-details.xbl to add your control foo:bar if a
foo:bar is found in fb:control-details. This at least waiting for that
code to be more generic and maybe allow any type of control under
fb:control-details.

https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/blob/tag-release-4.9-ce/src/resources-packaged/xbl/fb/dialog-control-details/dialog-control-details.xbl#L318

Alex

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 12:20 AM, bwallis42
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> I'm building an xbl control that requires some pre-configured values at
> design time. These preconfigured values come from a web service and I have
> another control (similar to dynamic data dropdown) that lets me select a
> value.
>
> I would like to use the second control in the control settings so I tried
> that in the fb:control-details section but that seems to only allow input
> controls. Is there a way to use other controls in the control settings
> dialog?
>
> I've been using the following for testing. There are 4 items in the
> control-details. The first and last are inputs, the second is a standard
> select1 and the third is my custom control. Only the first and fourth ones
> display when the control settings dialog is displayed.
>
>
>
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