What is the Forms Framework?

PIPEFORCE Forms Framework is a Forms forms framework which allows you to declaratively create and design data entry and data preview web forms without programming knowledge required.

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Let’s have a look to all of these parts step by step below.

The Form Data (Model)

The Form Data is a JSON document which provides the data to be displayed in the form.

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The Input Data (initial form data)

There can be an optional input data (A) which is the data to be shown initially to a form when it gets loaded. This input data is provided as a JSON document. For example, in case data must be loaded from a database in order to edit it in the form, then this data from the database will be converted to JSON and will become the input data to the form. The input data structure must comply with the Form Schema (D).

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In case a form has no input data (which means input config is set to null or doesn't exist and no request parameter was set), then it will be an empty form which can be initially filled with data from the user.

The Output Data

After the user has clicked the submit button of the form (B), the fields of the form will be written back into a JSON document which is then the output data (C) which also must comply with the Form Schema (D).

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The JSON format of the output is the same as the format of the input model and must comply with the Form Schema.

The Form Schema (Model)

For more details go to: /wiki/spaces/DEV/pages/2482176001

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{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "firstName": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Add our first name here",
      "minLength": 2
    },
    "lastName": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "age": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "cv": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "name": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "contentLength": {
          "type": "number"
        },
        "contentType": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "contentEncoding": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "content": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "firstName",
    "lastName",
    "age"
  ]
}

The Form Config (View)

For more details go to: /wiki/spaces/DEV/pages/2482798727

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{
  "title": "Add person",
  "description": "Add a new person",
  "schema": "$uri:property:global/app/myapp/object/person/v1/schema",
  "input":"$uri:property:global/app/myapp/object/person/v1/instance/67b07f3c-e006-4bec-a790-ef25b9fe97df",
  "output": "global/app/myapp/object/person/v1/instance/${var.property.uuid}",
  "layout": {
    "orientation": "vertical",
    "items": [
      {
      "orientation": "horizontal",
      "items": [
        {
        "field": "firstName"
        },
        {
        "field": "lastName"
        }]
      },
      {
        "field": "age"
      },
      {
        "field": "cv"
      }
    ]
  }
}

The Pipeline (Controller)

For more details, see:

• Command and Pipeline

• Events

• Pipeline Triggers

After the form has been submitted by the user, the output data will be stored in the property store and then a property.created or property.updated event will be fired by the property store.

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