Rendering Form Template

Mobile Forms have the notion of Profiles which are exposed as REST Endpoints to enable Mobile Rendering of Form Templates. These Profiles have associated Profile Renderer. They are JSP pages responsible for generating HTML representation of the form by calling the Forms OSGi service. The JCR path of the Profile node determines the URL of the render end point. The default render end point of the form pointing to 'default' profile looks like:

http://<host>:<port>/lc/content/xfaforms/profiles/default.html?contentRoot=<path of the folder containg form xdp>&template=<name of the xdp> 

For example, http://localhost:8080/lc/content/xfaforms/profiles/default.html?contentRoot=c:/xdps&template=sampleForm.xdp

For a custom profile, the endpoint changes accordingly. For example, the end point for the custom profile with the name hrforms is:

http://localhost:8080/lc/content/xfaforms/profiles/hrforms.html?contentRoot=c:/xdps&template=sampleForm.xdp

If your template resides in the LiveCycle repository in an application called FormSubmission, the URI is:

http://localhost:4502/content/xfaforms/profiles/default.html?
contentRoot=repository:///Applications /FormSubmission/1.0&template=sampleForm.xdp
 

Render Parameters

The request parameters supported while rendering form as HTML are:

Merge Data with form template

Passing the render parameter

Mobile Forms support three methods for passing the render parameters. You can pass parameters via URLs, key-value pairs, and profile node. In the render parameter, key-value pair holds highest precedence followed by profile node. The URL Request parameter holds least precedence.

• URL request parameters: You can specify the render parameters in the URL. In the URL request parameters, the parameters are visible to the end user. For example, the following submit URL contains template parameter in the URL:http://localhost:8080/lc/content/xfaforms/profiles/default.html?contentRoot=repository:///Applications/FormSubmission/1.0&template=sampleForm.xdp
• SetAttribute request parameters: You can specify the render parameters as a key-value pair. In the SetAttribute request parameters, the parameters are not visible to the end user. You can forward a request from any other JSP to Mobile Form profile renderer JSP and use setAttribute on request object to pass all the render parameters. This method has highest precedence.
• Profile node request parameters: You can specify the render parameters as node properties of a profile node. In the profile node request parameters, the parameters are not visible to the end user. Profile node is the node where request is sent. To specify parameters as node properties, use CRXDE lite.

Submit Parameters

Mobile Forms submit data; execute server-sided scripts and web-services on LiveCycle servers. For detailed information on parameters used to execute server-sided scripts and web-services on LiveCycle servers, see Mobile Forms Service Proxy.