Thanks for the reply and sorry for my turtle-slow response.
I'm an intern working for OpenMRS (http://openmrs.org). My
project is to
replace their dependence on Microsoft InfoPath with
OpenOffice.org's XML Forms
component. The project page is at
h
ttp://openmrs.org/wiki/MVC_Data_Entry_Alternatives and
my (more informational)
blog is at http://compiler-er
ror.blogspot.com .
While I've found OOo to be surprisingly easy and compatible
with XForms, there
are a few things that I wish it did or did differently. I
find OOo's code base
to be a little too much for a beginner OOo dev like myself,
so I sought to
contact those developers working on the XForms component.
My questions are as
follows:
If I wanted to request features/changes, how/where would I
do this?
What's the probability of these changes being worked on in
the near future?
If I wanted to try and make such changes myself, could you
direct me to some
information that would help me out on this?
To give an example of the types of things I'd like to see
(specifically for the
benefit of OpenMRS, but they should help other XForms
designers as well), I'm
currently having an authentication issue with submitting the
forms. The servers
we use require you to log in via HTTP, and upon successful
login the server
sends you a JSESSIONID in an HTTP header. In order to
submit the form to the
server, you need to include the JSESSIONID in the header.
I'm working on a way
to "capture" this ID and then create my own
submission button when the user
clicks "submit". It would be nice if OOo could
somehow support all or part of
this process. (more info at
http://compiler-error.blogspot.com/2007/08/c
apturing-session-id.html )
Also, MS InfoPath allows for the loading of template XML
data to populate the
form. You can download a template file with data already
filled in, open it in
InfoPath, and the data will automatically populate the
forms. OOo almost
supports this in that you can tell it to use some instance
data file (or URI),
but this is a manual process and you have to reload the form
to get the data to
populate the form controls. I discuss this in
http://compiler-error.blogspot.com/2007/07/mid-te
rm-report.html .
I'm also running into a data validation issue where defining
a valid range for
data in a control of type Decimal propagates this validation
to ALL controls of
type Decimal. It seems to me that you should be able to
have separate valid
ranges for each control, but I may be wrong on this. More
info at
http://compiler-error.blogspot.com/2007/0
8/openofficeorg-annoyance.html .
Any assistance you could provide on this would be much
appreciated.
Thanks,
-Matthew Harrison
Quoting Lars Oppermann <lars.oppermann sun.com>:
> Hi Matthew,
>
> I may be able to help you. However, I'd need to know
the question first ;)
>
> Bests,
> Lars
>
> Matthew Harrison wrote:
> >
> > Hello. I am looking for contact info on the folks
that are working on the
> XML
> > Forms component of OpenOffice.org. Could anybody
direct me to them? Am I
> > asking in the right place?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matthew Harrison
> >
> >
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