Moving choices from one list to another in XForms
Thu, Jul 7th 2011 6:09p JohnBoyer A number of times recently, I've been asked how to create a pair of list boxes with arrow buttons between them that move the selected item from one list to the other in the direction of the arrow (if something is selected in the source list). As I did, you can easily use the IBM Forms Designer to create a simple form that has the two list boxes for the two lists. I used icecream flavors. The Designer automatically generates the XForms markup, such as the xforms:select1 elements and th [read] Keywords: ibm
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From the Data to the Glass: In the Information Architect's Corner
Thu, Apr 7th 2011 11:09p JohnBoyer I've recently realized that there are a few milestones to celebrate all at once here: This blog turned 5, my W3C XForms group age is 10, and this is the 100th exciting episode of the IBM Forms dW blog. I took a look back at what you, the readers, seem to like best, and those 2000-3000 hit entries are at the intersection of strong technical content and the confluence of open standards. How serendipitous! The power and value of the XFDL markup language underlying IBM Forms comes from the way it [read] Keywords: ibm
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Designing Success: Bring the Customer to the Enterprise by Bringing the Enterprise to the Customer
Thu, Mar 24th 2011 7:09p JohnBoyer Engaging with customers (or employees) involves collecting information from them. To sell an insurance product, for example, you need to know what kind of insurance, how much, who's it for, their age, and a whole raft of other information. This is how we end up being able to provide a customer with an insurance quote or product, a financial preapproval, a medical appointment, and this is how we process IT requests, support requests, purchase orders, expense reports, etc. If you're architect [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Forms wins top video demo award at Lotusphere 2011
Thu, Feb 3rd 2011 7:36p JohnBoyer One of the New IBM Forms 4.0 Demonstrations has just won the top-rated video award at Lotusphere. This is a fantastic victory for the Websphere Portal segment of Lotus, which focuses on products like IBM Forms that create and provide exceptional web experiences. It is also a victory for the W3C XForms standard since the Wizard Creator featured in the video is, as far as I know, the first point-and-click design experience for an XForms switch. This feature exemplifies the principle that [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Forms 4.0 Demonstrations
Mon, Jan 17th 2011 10:42a JohnBoyer The hit rate on my last blog announcement about IBM Forms 4.0 makes it clear that the release is pretty big news. I'm very pleased about that because it is a *major* release, both technically and in terms of the corporate branding. Corporate branding is not a decision lightly made, so it took the time it took, and meanwhile we didn't want to delay the technical features hitting the market, so you'll see some references to "Lotus Forms" under the covers of the main IBM branding. Not to [read] Keywords: connections
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Advancing XForms at the Face to Face Meeting
Thu, Oct 28th 2010 6:46p JohnBoyer As the XForms working group gears up for our face-to-face meetings next week, I can't help but be energized by the selection of features we are working on for XForms 1.2 (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/Category:XForms12).If you have a look at the linked page, you can get an idea of the current feature pipeline as well as some initial text describing each feature. Here's some further commentary on selected features.I look forward to improvements to the available XPath function library. [read] Keywords: application
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Migrating to Model-Centric Data Validation
Fri, Sep 24th 2010 11:24a JohnBoyer For a very long time, the XML language underlying Lotus Forms (called XFDL) has offered an option element called to describe data type, validity constraints and presentational formatting for the (valid) values of form controls (called XFDL items, like text entry fields, selection popups, and so forth). Neither a whole Lotus Form document, nor the XForms instance data it contains, can be submitted to a server unless all relevant data type and validity constraints are satisfied. However, the e [read] Keywords: lotus
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On the Value of Being an XML Technology
Fri, Jul 23rd 2010 12:56p JohnBoyer In a prior blog entry, I told you about the powerful data-driven dynamism available in Lotus Forms due to the features of XForms. I used the example of a Questionnaire or Survey that used an in an XFDL to expand to any length of survey and respond to a mixture of question/answer types.One the one hand, this is a neat, easy to understand example that helps you understand how a Lotus Form could dynamically respond to web service query results that arrive during the form interaction experience. [read] Keywords: ibm
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The Illusion of a Web SOA distinct from Enterprise SOA
Fri, May 21st 2010 5:53p JohnBoyer In "enterprise" service-oriented architectures (SOAs), XML is a clearly entrenched format for server-to-server communications. But there's a movement afoot to define a "Web SOA" as a separate entity that describes server-to-client communications... based on JSON as the format.The rationale is that JSON parses "a hundred times faster" in a web browser than does XML. This is like the tail wagging the dog. It is a myopic, accept-the-status-quo approach to web application computing, and i [read] Keywords: ibm
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