Custom Forms 

Use

You create your own forms when you want to display the contents of the same XML documents differently in different iViews.

For example, you want to display a list of news in two different iViews:

§         You want to display the title, a short form and an image for each news item in a wide iView.

§         You only want to display the title for each news item in a narrow iView.

Features

You define the default layout for list entries in the RenderListItem form. In the XML Forms Builder you can create any number of forms for alternative designs. This makes the following scenario possible:

·         Authors create documents, such as news, in a data entry form. All elements of a document are stored in an XML file. All XML files are stored in the same folder.

·         You display the contents differently in different iViews for the reader. All iViews show a list of the same documents. In each list you can display a different subset of the elements stored in the XML files. You can arrange the elements differently in each list.

Activities

To create a form in the XML Forms Builder, click with the alternative mouse button on the root node in the project browser and choose Add Form. Select class showform in the form properties.

In the configuration of the KM user interface, you must configure a set of XML resource renderer settings for each new form. For more information see Linking Your Own List Forms into iViews.