[Stackoverflow disallows the word help in the title. Hence the h3lp]
We are in the proces of moving our code from Orbeon 3.9 to Orbeon 4.x. One of the many things that changed is the behavior for display of xforms:alert and xforms:help. Example code:
<xforms:input ref="#code">
<xforms:alert ref="$resources/required-field"/>
<xforms:help ref="$helptext"/>
</xforms:input>
In Orbeon 3.9 the alert is displayed as a red img with a white exclamation mark that has the text as tooltip, only if the binding fails. The help is displayed as a blue-ish image with a question that activated a tiny pseudo window containing the (potentially large) help text.
In Orbeon 4.7 the alert text is displayed as-is, no image and no condition based on binding. This interferes with a carefully designed interface as it takes up a lot more space. The help text is not displayed at all because .xforms-help has display: none;. Overriding that doesn't work because the text would then just be displayed inline.
I could not find documentation for these changes. Does anyone know the rationale and how to make "alert" and "help" useful yet again?
There are two changes with Orbeon Forms 4.x which might be relevant to this:
The HTML layout of elements has changed a bit. This means existing CSS might have to be adapted. You can check this by comparing the HTML produced by 3.9 vs. 4.x for a given page. With 4.x, all form elements, for example, are wrapped within a <span> or <div> element.
Form Runner uses Twitter Bootstrap as a CSS library. But the Bootstrap CSS files are also included for non-Form Runner pages.
This said, "red icon" alerts should still work, see for example the good old Espresso Order or Bookcast demos.
If you see alerts inline and unconditionally, it means that somehow the proper CSS doesn't apply, either because of the HTML layout change mentioned above, or because some CSS files are missing.
Look at this post : http://blog.orbeon.com/2014/01/improving-how-we-show-help-messages.html
and this : http://discuss.orbeon.com/how-to-use-the-quot-new-quot-xforms-help-in-4-5-td4658348.html
julien
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grails v 3.3.9, fields plugin
fighting with fields plgin and theres a problem when rendering domain objects and using bootstrap
i've got a sample here from a simple standalone page to show the problem
<p>f:display category </p>
<f:display bean="maintenanceAgreement" >
</f:display>
<hr />
<p>f:field category</p>
<f:field bean="${this.pageScope.maintenanceAgreement}" property="category">
<g:render template="/_fields/map/displayWidget" ></g:render>
</f:field>
<hr />
in essenence i have added a template in "/_fields/map/displayWidget" that renders a drop right table on a button
when you render a map field directly from your Domain object the sample table opens and you get all of the table
however when you
you can see the differences between using f.display (has clipping problem), f.field ( which seems to work) and f.all that ignores my _fields/map/_displayWidget.gsp
I dont want to have not use the fields plugin but its not working with bootstrap templating
has any one come up with a fix for this problem?
the project demo page is here
github standalone page to show rendering problem
the attached shows the output as you try each and select category property
well goldarn it another 2 days down the pan - but i have it !
I thought at first it was something to do with fields plugin processing. so i hacked a clone of plugin project locally and added some bits so i could watch it/debug step through it
in doing so i noted that my dummy web domain class page i'd cut across to the plugin didnt have the clipping problem. but the styles were not the same so i copied main.css and grails.css from ordinary project back into the plugin, then re rendered in the browser - and the clipping happened again.
so its in the css!. some very careful watching of browser and looking at the browser 'inspect' indicated that the clipping seemed to be enabled very early on in the journey.
so in my dummy page i just used
I then spent a day wandering round the various bits of fields plugin as its not that well explained anywhere.
if you look at the plugins taglib display method, by default that triggers the /templates/fields/_list.gsp. naming is a little odd but its the gsp that renders the domains persistent attributes as an ordered list - the plugins default _list.gsp looks like this
<ol class="property-list ${domainClass.decapitalizedName}">
<g:each in="${domainProperties}" var="p">
<li class="fieldcontain">
<span id="${p.name}-label" class="property-label"><g:message code="${domainClass.decapitalizedName}.${p.name}.label" default="${p.defaultLabel}" /></span>
<div class="property-value" aria-labelledby="${p.name}-label">${body(p)}</div>
</li>
</g:each>
</ol>
so after much exploration coming up through templates, from the bottom I ended up right at the top with the '
so nearly there now. back into main.css that i'd copied in. if you edit that, down around line 215 you get this style. If you comment out the overflow property - its all fixed !
.property-list .fieldcontain {
list-style: none;
/*overflow: hidden; */
zoom: 1;
}
I tried auto, scroll, and visible but that seems to much about with too much of the page so best to just comment it out.
once you do that - the rest of the rendering of your forms starts to work !! blimey one line of css for all that pain. Attached is the page using
Lastly through out all this, id ended up digging through /tracing fields plugin. What a nest that is. Not really finished here, but basically
with no body just renders a label and no content. So you either need to provide provide a body tag, say to get the value field displayed.
as
if no widget template has been defined then the renderDefaultDisplay is called which again has very limited options for controlling the rendering by falling through a 'switch (prop.type)' and basically calls either g.format (bool), g.formatDate (but no LocalDateTime/LocalDate Support) or g.fieldValue, non of which are bootstrap enabled.
if you call
these two diagrams are not beautiful but just high level pseudo code walk through for what the core tags are trying to do. One day i'll try and pretty that up but it might help you if you get stuck
I'll raise a bug for the main.css clipping directly to the grails team and see what happens, but you can comment the line out yourself if you fall foul of it.
I want to increase the size of the Calendar view because the default size is too small for my web application. I've tried to add a cssClass to the datetimepicker tag but it doesn't work, even if I change the width or height the only thing it changes is the field, not the calendar itself.
I'll put an image so you can understand better the problem that I have:
The thing is that the text from the field is correctly viewed, but when I click the calendar button, it shows that tiny view and it's extremelly difficult to pick one date.
The code for the datetimepicker is this:
<sx:datetimepicker name="start_date" displayFormat="dd-MMM-yyyy" value="%{'today'}" />
Any guess?
Ok, It's finally solved:
First I tried to find the file named datefilepicker.ftl inside the struts2-core.jar but I didn't find anything similar.
So after a few hours trying to find which was the correct template of datetimepicker without any luck, I tried to solve my problem using JQuery because when I was searching for the answer I found out a datepicker tutorial using this library.
There's a plugin called Struts2-JQuery that provides you with ajax functionality and therefore with multiple customizations in different widgets.
It's quite easy to install, I just had to download the correct .jar which for me it was Version 3.5.1 ( jQuery 1.8.3, jQuery UI 1.9.2 ). Once I'd downloaded the file, I just had to paste it in the lib folder inside my project. After doing that, I added this line at the beginning of the .jsp file:
<%# taglib prefix="sj" uri="/struts-jquery-tags"%>
With these steps I had jquery functionality inside my .jsp file, so the only thing left to do is to add the datepicker widget:
First I chose the jquerytheme I wanted for my widget, just like this:
<head>
<sj:head jquerytheme="flick"/>
...
</head>
And then, I added my datepicker widget:
<sj:datepicker name="start_date" displayFormat="dd-MM-yy" value="today"/>
And that's it.
If you want to resize the datepicker calendar see the answer of this post:
How to resize the jQuery DatePicker control
<sx:datetimepicker name="start_date" displayFormat="dd-MMM-yyyy" value="%{'today'}" />
It is a dojo tag, so you should be changing the template file corresponding to this tag
Freemarker changes
check for something like datetimepicker.ftl in your workspace. That would be the file rendering your calendar. Any presentation related changes will be done in that file only.
debug using firebug
Another approach can be using firebug in Mozilla firefox and manually try to change the html rendered by the tag. There might lie some CSS solution to your problem
With a grails app and from a local database, I'm returning some text in a xml format.
I can return it well formed in a <textarea></textarea> tag with the correct indenting (tabulation, line return,...etc.)
I want to go a bit further. In the text I'm returning, there are some <img/> tags and I'd like to replace those tag by the real images themselves.
I searched around and found no solution as of now. I understood that you can't add an image to a textarea (other then in a background), and if I choose a div tag, I won't have the indenting anymore (and therefore, harder to read)
I was wondering if using a <g:textField/> or an other tag from the grails library will do the trick. And if so, How can I append them to a page using jquery.
For example, how to append a <g:textField/> in jquery. It doesn't interpret it and I get this error
SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list [Break On This Error]...+doc).append("<input type="text" id="FTMAP_"+nb_sec+"" ...
And in my javascript file, I have
$("#FTM_"+doc).append("<g:textField id='FTMAP_"+nb_sec+"' ... />
Any possible solutions ?
EDIT
I did forget to mention that my final intentions are to be able to modify the text (tags included) and to have a nice and neat indentation so that it is the easiest possible for the end user.
You are asking a few different questions:
1. Can I use a single HTML tag to include images inside pre-formatted text.
No. You will have to parse the text and translate it into styled text yourself.
2. Is there a tag in the grails standard tags to accomplish this for me?
No.
3. How can I add grails tags from my javascript code.
Grails tags are processed on the server-side, and javascript is processed on the client. This means you cannot directly add grails tags via javascript.
There are a couple methods that can accomplish the same result, however:
You can set a javascript variable to the rendered content of a grails tag. This solution is good for data that is known at the time of the initial request.
var tagOutput = "${g.textField(/* etc */)}";
You can make an ajax request for the content to be added. Then your server-side grails code can render the tags you need. This is better for realtime data, or data that will be updated more than once on a single rendered page.
i'm trying to display html i.e. rich text within a wicket element dynamically. An example is like displaying a rich text email within a div tag. how can i get this done with wicket. the wicket Label component doesn't seem to support this. is there a component that does
Found this in the excellent Manning Wicket in Action:
add(new Label("markup", "<h1>Hello!</h1>").setEscapeModelStrings(false));
The call to setEscapeModelStrings tells Wicket not to escape the contents of the provided string, and to render the contents into the resulting markup. This does the trick, as you can see in the right screenshot in figure 5.4. Note that this setting is available on all Wicket components, but it’s primarily useful on labels.
As the book also notes however, you should be aware of script-injection attacks..
We are using the FreeTextBox 3.1.6 on an intranet. The control appears on an ASP.Net project built in Visual Studio 2008.
When clients enter tabs in the text box, those tabs do not get preserved at postback. Rather, the tabs are lost. Other text formatting, like bold, italics, or font size are preserved.
Even when the postback event that occurs on the web page does not save anything to a database we are loosing the tabs. According to http://wiki.freetextbox.com/default.aspx/FreeTextBoxWiki.Installation the JavaScript and XML used by FreeTextBox are stored in a dll. So I cannot edit the contents of those files.
Has anyone encountered this issue with FreeTextBox? If so, how did you resolve it?
Here is the behavior that occurs. Enter text with tabs in the FreeTextBox control.
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Then select the "Save" button. This is a command button that posts back the page. In my test scenario nothing gets saved and loaded from a database. The FreeTextBox control is strictly displaying text that was posted. My guess is that the mechanism handling that is in ViewState, but I'm not sure about that.
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As you can see, all of the tabs are gone. Even the tabs inserted between words are gone.
Thanks for your help.
Ken
Setting TabMode to "InsertSpaces" did not resolve this. My source code for instantiating the control is below. Pictures I posted didn't previously show up. Visit these links to see them.
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http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/175/ftb2postbd6.gif
<FTB:FREETEXTBOX id="txtDocument" EnableHtmlMode="False" Width="100%" runat="server" AllowHtmlMode="True"
StripAllScripting="True" Height="400px" FormatHtmlTagsToXhtml="False"
AutoGenerateToolbarsFromString="true"
ToolbarLayout="ParagraphMenu, FontFacesMenu, FontSizesMenu, FontForeColorsMenu, FontForeColorPicker| Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough; Superscript, Subscript, RemoveFormat| JustifyLeft, JustifyRight, JustifyCenter, JustifyFull; BulletedList, NumberedList, Indent, Outdent; CreateLink, Unlink, InsertImage, InsertRule| Cut, Copy, Paste; Undo, Redo, Print"
TabMode="InsertSpaces"
>
I found the answer. The original programmer had code that intercepted the contents of the textbox when it was submitted. That code reformatted the text for special currency characters like the Yen, Euro, and Pound.
Here is what the code looked like.
Dim hstrg As String = txtDocument.Text
Dim f As New FreeTextBoxControls.Support.Formatter
hstrg = f.HtmlToXhtml(hstrg)
What fixed the issue was commenting out that HtmlToXhtml() method. We don't need the contents to be Xhtml compatible, so this was a viable option for us.
i've been using free text box in some of my former development, but it had some quirks and wouldn't work right in IE.
try moving to FCKEditor, or TinyMCE. they seem like much better experience than FTB. i've chosen FCK, and i think WordPress uses TinyMCE. try them if a switch of editor is an option.