Dynamically Built Forms.

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I've got two tables (questions and answers). With these two tables, I'm trying to construct a custom form (survey) that can have a random number of questions and answers. Questions can have multiple answers and may be either fill in the blank or multiple choice. Based on the question type,
(fill in the blank for example, I want to display the question and a textarea to allow the user to type in input and I'll process that and put it in a response field inside a useranswers table along with question ID.)
(multiple choice questions I want to be able to display the question and then present a series of checkboxes or radiobuttons with the relevant responses for that question from my answer database). Chosen response would once again be saved in the response field in a usersanswers table along with Question ID.
As this can be dynamic (ie a survey could have between 5 and 10 questions and a question 2-7 possible answers), it is possible to generate this with a sql query that would build the HTMLDB form for the user, or will it have to be generated using pl/sql and the htmldb_item API? If it can be generated using SQL and not PL/SQL, could someone provide me some examples of relevant code??
Currently tables are as follows:
Questions TABLE
QuestionID number
Question varchar2(255);
Answers TABLE
AnswerID number
Questionid number; (links to a question in above table)
Answer varchar2(255);
Value number (this is what would be saved for the response in the useranswers table)
UserAnswers TABLE
QuestionID
UserResponse varchar2(255);
Thanks in Advance for any help.
Clifford Moon
UTPA Webmaster.

Hi Pete,
I have done a questionniare that had a similar requirement - I needed to display a N/A field, then one of either a number, text, date or selectlist field.
I tried a good number of different methods to get everything to work properly. In the end, I created a normal tabular form (all of the questions are individual records on a table and each record has all of the data types as different fields so creating the tabular form was easy) and then used javascript to pick up the type of data required and hide all the other fields in the row. I also had to fix the widths of the column headings.
Unfortunately, my app would be too complicated to completely reproduce here. But the important bit was the javascript functionality. Here's mine:
<script type="text/javascript">
function hide(whatid)
var p;
p = whatid.parentNode;
while (p.nodeName != 'TD')
p = p.parentNode;
if (p.tagName == 'TD')
p.style.display = 'none';
function hidefields(items)
var field_TD_NA_A;
var item_TD_NA_A;
var field_TD_TYPE;
var item_TD_TYPE;
var field_TD_NUMBER;
var item_TD_NUMBER;
var field_TD_DATE;
var item_TD_DATE;
var field_TD_YN;
var item_TD_YN;
var field_TD_TEXT;
var item_TD_TEXT;
var field_TD_NA;
var item_TD_NA;
var i;
field_TD_NA_A = document.forms[0].f02;
field_TD_TYPE = document.forms[0].f03;
field_TD_NUMBER = document.forms[0].f04;
field_TD_DATE = document.forms[0].f05;
field_TD_YN = document.forms[0].f06;
field_TD_TEXT = document.forms[0].f07;
field_TD_NA = document.forms[0].f08;
if (items == 1)
item_TD_NA_A = document.forms[0].f02;
item_TD_TYPE = document.forms[0].f03;
item_TD_NUMBER = document.forms[0].f04;
item_TD_DATE = document.forms[0].f05;
item_TD_YN = document.forms[0].f06;
item_TD_TEXT = document.forms[0].f07;
item_TD_NA = document.forms[0].f08;
hideItems(item_TD_NA_A, item_TD_TYPE, item_TD_NUMBER, item_TD_DATE, item_TD_YN, item_TD_TEXT, item_TD_NA);
else
for (i = 0; i < items; i++)
item_TD_NA_A = field_TD_NA_A;
item_TD_TYPE = field_TD_TYPE[i];
item_TD_NUMBER = field_TD_NUMBER[i];
item_TD_DATE = field_TD_DATE[i];
item_TD_YN = field_TD_YN[i];
item_TD_TEXT = field_TD_TEXT[i];
item_TD_NA = field_TD_NA[i];
hideItems(item_TD_NA_A, item_TD_TYPE, item_TD_NUMBER, item_TD_DATE, item_TD_YN, item_TD_TEXT, item_TD_NA);
function hideItems(v_td_na_a, v_td_type, v_td_number, v_td_date, v_td_yn, v_td_text, v_td_na)
hide(v_td_type);
hide(v_td_na_a);
if (v_td_type.value == 'N')
hide(v_td_date);
hide(v_td_yn);
hide(v_td_text);
if (v_td_type.value == 'D')
hide(v_td_number);
hide(v_td_yn);
hide(v_td_text);
if (v_td_type.value == 'Y')
hide(v_td_number);
hide(v_td_date);
hide(v_td_text);
if (v_td_type.value == 'T')
hide(v_td_number);
hide(v_td_date);
hide(v_td_yn);
if (v_td_na_a.value != 'Y')
v_td_na.style.display = 'none';
function setHRWidths()
document.getElementById("HR1").style.width = "30px";
document.getElementById("HR2").style.width = "410px";
document.getElementById("HR3").style.width = "300px";
document.getElementById("HR4").style.width = "65px";
document.getElementById("HR5").style.width = "75px";
document.getElementById("HR6").style.width = "300px";
setHRWidths();
var divCounter;
var divItem;
var divItems;
var divParent;
if (document.getElementsByTagName("DIV"))
divItems = document.getElementsByTagName("DIV");
rowcount = divItems.length;
for (divCounter = 0; divCounter < rowcount; divCounter++)
divItem = divItems[divCounter];
if (divItem.id == "Q_SEQUENCE")
divParent = divItem.parentNode;
while (divParent.tagName != "TD")
divParent = divParent.parentNode;
divParent.style.width = "30px";
divParent.style.whiteSpace = "normal";
if (divItem.id == "Q_DESCRIPTION")
divParent = divItem.parentNode;
while (divParent.tagName != "TD")
divParent = divParent.parentNode;
divParent.style.width = "400px";
divParent.style.whiteSpace = "normal";
var tdCounter;
var tdItems;
var tdItem;
if (document.forms.length > 0)
if (document.forms[0].getElementsByTagName("TD"))
tdItems = document.forms[0].getElementsByTagName("TD");
rowcount = tdItems.length;
for (tdCounter = 0; tdCounter < rowcount; tdCounter++)
tdItem = tdItems[tdCounter];
tdItem.style.verticalAlign = "top";
var rowcount;
if (document.forms[0].f01)
rowcount = document.forms[0].f01.length;
if (rowcount > 0)
hidefields(rowcount);
else
if (document.forms[0].f01)
hidefields(1);
</script>
Basically, the script loops through all of the rows, picks up the data type needed (which is a single letter in column 3) and hide the columns that were not required. It's made slightly more complicated because you have to hide the TD's not just the fields, so the code also works out which TD each field is in.
The only thing I did on the tabular form definition itself was to have a PL/SQL header (as several fields would be hidden, the normal headers wouldn't work). My header was: BEGIN
RETURN '<b> <br> </b>:<b> <br> No</b><hr id="HR1">:<b> <br> Question</b><hr id="HR2">:<b> <br> Response</b><hr id="HR3">:<b> Not<br> Applicable</b><hr id="HR4">:<b> Date<br> Updated</b><hr id="HR5">:<b> Response<br> last year</b><hr id="HR6">';
END;
I hope that makes sense!
Regards
Andy
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I think you can do it with ADF .When you click field1 in your form get the value to bean using serverListner.And create method in AMImpl to filter records from TableB by passing your field1 value.make sure to add client interface to this filter method(clientInterface in yourAM.xml) and add it to page using bindings to as methodAction.Then you can show filtered TableB using popoup.

How can i exclude information pages from being printed in a dynamic XML form?

Hi there,
i am building a dynamic XML form in Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES2.
In this form there are pages with information that help the end user fill out the form, but to use - those who process the forms after they have been sent to us - these pages with information are irrelevant.
Is there a way to tell the form to omit these pages when printing.
Currently i have set the pages mentioned to be only visable on-screen. But doing so results in an empty page being printed (only the master page information is visable.)
Any ideas how i can solve this issue?
Thank you.

Create a new master page and set that page to visible screen only. Set your subforms to use that master.

Dynamically Built Forms.

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