[pmwiki-users] Re: FGS Beta Testing - Exporting Data - Update

[John Feezell]

Knut Alboldt wrote:

> John Feezell schrieb:
>
>>
>> I understand.  You had expressed some interest in FGS so just wanted 
>> to keep you informed.
>
> Oh, yes please ! I'm still interested and will keep on testing when I 
> can. Please, dont misunderstand me, it was just an info to you that I 
> can't join the test of this release (as a feedback of a tester).
>
>>
>>> A short question: as far as I can see FGS stores the field-info in 
>>> special "tags" within the page-file. You wrote that you can switch 
>>> form-editing on and off. What will happen if you switch it of, enter 
>>> some text (which will go into the text-section of the wikipage-file) 
>>> and then switch formedit on again ? Will the (in the text) entered 
>>> data be lost ?
>>
>>
>>
>> When the form is detached from a page, the page should act just like 
>> any other PmWiki page.  When the form is attached again, then any 
>> fields defined for that particular form should be active.  Attaching 
>> a different form will cause the fields defined in that form to be 
>> active.  This makes it possible for a given page to be viewed and 
>> edited using different forms where some of the fields are common to 
>> the forms and some are related to only a particular form.
>
> so if a page is attached, the info is used from that special ==tags== 
> and the text-part is generated ?
> Will every ==tag== be used to generate the text ? e.g:
> I attach a page to form1 containing field a and b, I edit it and will 
> see the contense of field a and b.
> Then I attach this page to form2 containing field b and c, I edit it 
> and browse it. What will I see ? the fields defined in the attached 
> form i.e. b and c ? So the info of a will not be generated in the text.
>
> If I now detach the form, will the text contain a and b and c ?
>
Check out the following site.  It should help you understand the way FGS 
works.
<http://cbfa-cos.org/xwiki/Forms/SwitchingForms>

The switching from forms to no forms doesn't work correctly.  It will be 
fixed in the next release of FGS.

> When I enter now (in detached mode) some info to the text and attach 
> it back to form1 will the entered text be lost ?
>
> (Maybe I should just test this all ? :-)
>
> It's just the question if it is useful to detach a form and enter text 
> natively (not to attach different forms, that is a fine feature - I 
> know from Lotus Notes: the contents can be more than the displaying 
> form is using)
>
> What will hapen if you search that pages. Will the text serached in 
> the field-tags or in the generated field ?
>
> Hopefully these are not to many questions - I'll continue testing this 
> myself on the weekend.
>
> Knut
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