Creation forms

Issue description

The creation of topics of a certain type involves many repetitive tasks and thus can be simplified for the user. It should be possible for an administrator to specify a "form" for the creation of topics of a type. This specification should include: * a list of statement types * the cardinality of each of those statement types * which topic type the created instance has * validation function formulated in javascript (maybe) This form specification is then interpreted and displayed with the same statement editors that are used in the wiki. The form has an ok and a cancel button at the lower part of the page. The topic will only be created after clicking "ok".

Developer comments

I want to go in a different direction than the original description suggests. A form for creating (or editing) a topic should be generated from TMCL constraints. This should be fairly straight forward. The form creation should be done on the client. The topic should not be created until the user hits ok. For now the TMCL subjects should be sufficient to create the forms.

Language: English

Reporting date

2008-12-22

Reported by

Robert Cerny

Resolving date

2010-02-13

Resolved by

Robert Cerny

Resolved in version

Topincs 4.0.0

Planned for version

Topincs 4.0.0

Blocked by

Create a select box control for association statements(Enhancement)

Part of

Assembly of components to pages(Enhancement)

Caused3

Display topic types without instance(Enhancement)

Editing forms(Enhancement)

Constraints by reflection(Enhancement)

Work sessions37

Start	2009-12-13T07:45:34
End	2009-12-13T09:32:55
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	First draft of implementation in JavaScript.

Start	2009-12-14T12:07:27
End	2009-12-14T17:19:10
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Implementation of two new resources (.form, .constraints). * Implenentation of displays of a form in paragraphs and statements. * Implementation of editing of occurrences. * Styling of the form.

Start	2009-12-15T08:04:19
End	2009-12-15T09:46:13
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Implementation of the association editor with select box in JavaScript.

Start	2009-12-15T13:05:04
End	2009-12-15T18:12:05
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Implementation of statement addition, including respecting boundaries. * Implementation of saving. Problem with saving the whole map at once.

Start	2009-12-16T13:29:55
End	2009-12-16T18:31:55
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Implementation of saving with TOPINCS.tmdm.ext.Changes. * Implementation of validation.

Start	2009-12-17T07:46:28
End	2009-12-17T09:04:58
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Implementation of respecting subtype-supertype while determining the range of a role. * Implementation of no-value option in role player selct. * Implementation of marking of required statements.

Start	2009-12-17T12:59:40
End	2009-12-17T15:29:13
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Implementation of validation of min-max constraints.

Start	2009-12-18T09:26:06
End	2009-12-18T14:09:03
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Code review of new JavaScript files. * Improvement of validation algorithm (allow non mandatory fields to be empty or invalid).

Start	2009-12-18T15:54:09
End	2009-12-18T17:29:24
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Attempt to convert TMCL ctms automatically to JTM. * Started to work on server-side constraint construction (based on the declarations).

Start	2009-12-19T05:27:12
End	2009-12-19T11:00:26
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Implementation of fetching declared constraints. * Importing and adjusting of TMCL topic maps. * First successful creation of forms.

Start	2010-01-18T15:12:28
End	2010-01-18T16:03:42
Participant	Robert Cerny

Start	2010-01-20T13:30:32
End	2010-01-20T16:20:32
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Attempt to simplify the transformation from schema.ctm to schema.jtm with the help of Mappa. Problems with Python.

Start	2010-01-21T07:34:10
End	2010-01-21T08:44:17
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Solution to the schema.ctm to schema.jtm simplification. Everything works as documentend in Mappa.

Start	2010-01-22T08:40:10
End	2010-01-22T10:05:05
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* First import of new (with mappa converted) tmcl map. * Topic type is very popular and is associated more than necessary.

Start	2010-01-22T17:10:38
End	2010-01-22T18:44:39
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	Implementation of support for topic name constraints.

Start	2010-01-23T12:08:29
End	2010-01-23T13:16:24
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Seperation of types and constraints in schema page.

Start	2010-01-24T09:12:51
End	2010-01-24T10:27:41
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Adjusted the patched schema.ctm based on irregularities in Topincs, e.g. topic does not have a name and is not a constraint.

Start	2010-01-24T18:07:30
End	2010-01-24T19:42:00
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Some more changes to the TMCL ctms to make forms for constraints right.

Start	2010-01-26T13:51:50
End	2010-01-26T17:14:39
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	Implementation of regular expression constraint validation in form.

Start	2010-01-27T14:22:38
End	2010-01-27T17:30:55
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Implementation of handling empty input fields (means usually no statement) * Sorting of fields by constraint min value, so that all mandatory fields are displayed on top

Start	2010-01-30T08:10:51
End	2010-01-30T11:15:40
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	Implementation of advanced range selection that also respects the number of times a topic can play a role in an association.

Start	2010-02-03T11:44:47
End	2010-02-03T15:11:06
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Code review of Forms JavaScript code. * Several simplifications based on the review. * Support of associations with only one role type. * Support of associations where subject plays more than one role.

Start	2010-02-04T17:04:40
End	2010-02-04T17:35:53
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Started to make paragraph validation testable.

Start	2010-02-04T21:07:52
End	2010-02-04T23:55:00
Participant	Robert Cerny

Start	2010-02-06T07:05:05
End	2010-02-06T08:08:19
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	Analysis of not-displaying select boxes in IE. Problem was not in JavaScript, but in CSS.

Start	2010-02-07T08:55:03
End	2010-02-07T09:50:41
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	Refactoring of select boxes so that they work in IE.

Start	2010-02-07T07:27:34
End	2010-02-07T08:43:06
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	Testing. Works well. Very well.

Start	2010-02-08T12:20:42
End	2010-02-08T16:12:57
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Reduction of used TMCL terms on bare minimum because they still might change. Left only the ones which actually are evaluated in the map. * Creation of some more label rules for TMCL constraint types.

Start	2010-02-09T09:00:07
End	2010-02-09T11:09:26
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	Update of the system topic map.

Start	2010-02-09T12:39:36
End	2010-02-09T16:21:34
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	Testing and small fixes.

Start	2010-02-10T09:20:55
End	2010-02-10T11:12:04
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	Testing, bug fixing, minor improvements.

Start	2010-02-10T12:46:25
End	2010-02-10T15:20:55
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	Testing, bugfixing, minor improvements.

Start	2010-02-10T17:04:31
End	2010-02-10T17:44:59
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	Testing, bug fixing and minor improvements.

Start	2010-02-11T09:08:55
End	2010-02-11T14:17:27
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	Testing, bugfixing.

Start	2010-02-12T10:22:47
End	2010-02-12T10:44:47
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	More testing.

Start	2010-02-14T10:50:35
End	2010-02-14T11:30:00
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	Small bug fix.

Start	2010-02-15T08:19:24
End	2010-02-15T11:46:54
Participant	Robert Cerny
Summary	* Final tests and bug fixing. * Building of release.