Cannot see an author's name in news

Question

Hi,
I have created a simple news scenario where the name of author is automatically filled through the variable $sap_user. When I try to display the form preview from the forms builder, the users ID is displayed correctly. But if I want to create a new news in the portal this field is empty. The same problem is with the date field. Everything else works good.
Any ideas?
Regards
Ivo

Answer 1

Hi Ivo,
after xml forms project generation, you have to edit generated edit xsl file
(ie. NewsEdit.xsl).
You have to find appropriate "input" element which references "sap_user" and append
this text: readonly="true".
Just look for "sap_user" in this file and you'll find it.
For example:
change something like this:
                   <input name="wcmprop.default:displayname" size="30" type="hidden" tabindex="66700" class="urEdfTxtEnbl" id="field_1185265267497">
                        <xsl:attribute name="value">
                          <xsl:value-of select="$sap_user"/>
                        </xsl:attribute>
                      </input>
into this:
                   <input name="wcmprop.default:displayname" size="30" type="hidden" tabindex="66700" class="urEdfTxtEnbl" id="field_1185265267497" readonly="true">
                        <xsl:attribute name="value">
                          <xsl:value-of select="$sap_user"/>
                        </xsl:attribute>
                      </input>
Please take care to change it for all input controls which have the same id, in this case for id="field_1185265267497".
Regards,
Ladislav