C# Example: Update existing form using XML

I am searching for an C# example to manipulate existing forms using XML. The result I want to achieve is to add a button on the Item form (10003).

It must be possible. Look for a discussing about this topic at Re: Update a system form with XML: empty screen when this is a target docum for example.
The main steps are:
1. Get XML system form
2. Replace UID
3. Update the system form using XML
4. Load 'new' form.
The problem is that I don't have a good example how to 'Get' and 'Load' the XML using C# in Visual Studio 2005. It is a little bit frustrating, because I can't get the whole picture...
Do you still think it is better to load a new form instead of changing the original?

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Update a system form using XML

Hi all,
I'm trying to update a system form by adding a tab (folder). The form is Customer Equipment Card (nb 60150), in the service menu.
I just want to add a folder called Counter.
When I load the XML file below, I get the following error :
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0xFFFFFFFE): Function not supported on current SBO Version - upgrade is required
If I want to add a button, it's working, but not a folder.
Something's false in this XML file (I add the good uid before I load it) ?
Thanks for your help
Sébastien

> - Drop the datasource section
> The error is gone, but I don't see the folder in
> in the form
You could try and check wether it's there but invisible (access it in your code and wait for an exception).
> - Linkto Objet
> If you look at the XML code of the form, you can
> can see that all the folder are links to this item.
> Moreover, when I add the form using VB (it's working
> that way), the XML result will show linkto = "54"
I believe. I analyzed another system form and my own forms: None of the tabs are linked to anything. Is this documented? What does it mean?
> - the data source is SYS_71 for all the folder of the
> form. I don't understand what you mean when you want
> me to set the val_on to this datasource
I looked at the XML source of another system form and the tabs had val_on="SYS_whatever". With my own forms I set val_off="N" and val_on="Y". I remember having had some problems there, but I can't put my finger on it now.
> - item group
> I'm using SBO 6.5, I can't find help on that, maybe
> it's only on 2004.
No, it's 6.5. It's not in the documentation but you will find it somewhere inside the guts of this forum. As I said, I once had trouble adding tabs cleanly to a custom form using XML.
Of course, all this is just blindly stabbing into the dark. What else can we do?

Updating Items in a form using XML

Hello all,
I have a form loaded in SBO. In some conditions I want to disable some items like EditTexts, CheckBoxes, ComboBoxes in the form. Some times I have to enable them.. Since there are more controls in the form I would like to use an XML for doing this.
But when I tried an XML, it did not work for the Enabled property. But it is working for Visible Property.
Do anybody know how to update the XML so that it will work fine?
This is the sample XML used for this purpose.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" ?>
<Application>
<forms>
<action type="update">
   <form FormType="MYFORM" uid="MYFORM_1">
    <items>
     <action type="update">
      <item uid="cmbSlsPr" type="113" left="125" enabled="0" visible="1" />
      <item uid="txtCustRef" type="16" left="125" enabled="0" visible="1" />
     </action>
    </items>
   </form>
</action>
</forms>
</Application>
Thanks in advance.
Anoop
Edited by: Anoop Krishnan on Aug 8, 2009 12:43 PM

Hi Anoop,
Yes, I update forms using XML.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" ?>
<Application>
     <forms>
          <action type="update">
               <form FormType="133" uid="">
                    <datasources>
                         <userdatasources>
                              <action type="add">
                                  <datasource uid="DSItemUID" type="9" size="100"></datasource>
                                   <datasource uid="DSDocNum" type="0"></datasource>
                              </action>
                         </userdatasources>
                    </datasources>
                    <items>
                         <action type="update">
                        <item uid="FldEDI" type="99" left="384" tab_order="0" width="64" top="98" height="19" visible="1" enabled="1" from_pane="0" to_pane="0" disp_desc="0" right_just="0" description="" linkto="" forecolor="-1" backcolor="-1" text_style="0" font_size="-1" supp_zeros="0" AffectsFormMode="0">
                            <AutoManagedAttribute></AutoManagedAttribute>
                            <specific caption="EDI" AffectsFormMode="0" val_on="8" val_off="0">
                                <databind databound="1" table="" alias="SYS_208"></databind>
                            </specific>
                        </item>
                        <item uid="FldOther" type="99" left="448" tab_order="0" width="74" top="98" height="19" visible="1" enabled="1" from_pane="0" to_pane="0" disp_desc="0" right_just="0" description="" linkto="" forecolor="-1" backcolor="-1" text_style="0" font_size="-1" supp_zeros="0" AffectsFormMode="0">
                            <AutoManagedAttribute></AutoManagedAttribute>
                            <specific caption="Outra Info." AffectsFormMode="0" val_on="2" val_off="0">
                                <databind databound="1" table="" alias="SYS_208"></databind>
                            </specific>
                        </item>
                             <item uid="ExportEDI" type="4" left="300" tab_order="0" width="80" top="150" height="20" visible="1" enabled="1" from_pane="8" to_pane="8" disp_desc="0" right_just="0" description="" linkto="rtgEDI" forecolor="-1" backcolor="-1" text_style="0" font_size="-1" supp_zeros="0" AffectsFormMode="1">
                                   <AutoManagedAttribute></AutoManagedAttribute>
                                   <specific caption="Exportar EDI"></specific>
                              </item>
Regards,
Vítor Vieira

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Who have experience that save an exist form as XML file then load from XML, some controls position, size and color different with the source form.
I want to use the system wizard form style and I saved system form MRP Wizard as XML file, when I load form from XML, the form shows picture with different position, size, the rectangle control lost color and position also different with source form, because I want to get the line color in the form, the separate line implement using rectangle, please share your opinion how to save the form as XML more Accurate.
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I want to export an existing form (Item master form) as XML so I can make some changes to it and replace existing with my new one... but...
I have tried copying to file and to clip board
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'To File
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Hello,
The following code should work
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Dim dst_XmlString As String
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HTH
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We've created a form on FormsCentral, and it's working very well. We'd now like to add a reset button to the form. I know we can do this in Adobe Acrobat to the base form we created before bringing it into FormsCentral, but I don't want to lose the form information we already have for the existing form that FormsCentral is tracking.
Can we update the form we have without losing all the response information? I suppose I could re-import the information into FormsCentral from an excel sheet or other if the existing information isn't carried forward, but I'd like some feedback on this before I start making changes to the form and the information collected.

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<SPC>NL-706</SPC>
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<SPC>NB-10269</SPC>
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</Branch>
</Branches>
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desc SPV_BOQ_BOM_POS_ACTIVITIES
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ACT_CODE_3 VARCHAR2(4000)
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BBPA_ID NOT NULL NUMBER(12,0)
BOQ_HEADER_ID NOT NULL NUMBER(12,0)
BB_ID NOT NULL NUMBER(12,0)
BOQ_ID NOT NULL NUMBER(12,0)
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FLG_MANUAL_CHANGE VARCHAR2(1)
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insert into SPV_BOQ_BOM_POS_ACTIVITIES
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I got Invalid Number and it's ok as answer from the database.
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