What Did I Do In FarCry Today?

With so many FarCry developers worldwide working on some interesting stuff 
I thought it would be good to create a “shout out” section to provide ideas 
to other developers who are all probably developing similar things. To get 
the ball rolling:

*Today: I extended alterType.cfc*

*Task: *Developing an option to allow editors to create online forms and 
questionnaires. I wanted to leverage the power of FC formtools. The best 
method I found was to create a new form cfc dynamically, based on defined 
the questions, labels etc.

*Why extend alterType.cfc? *Admin – Update COAPI metadata uses 
refreshCFCAppData in altertype to rebuild all COAPI types, rules, forms 
etc. as well as doing many other tasks. I did not want the frequency of 
form creation to create potential issues repeatedly running “Update COAPI 
metadata” so extended alterType.cfc into project and added new function 
called refreshSingleCFCAppData to take a single cfc name passed in and 
create/update it in the application metadata to allow forms to be created, 
updated and tested.

*Result: *A simple, non-technical, process to create online forms using 
built in FarCry formtools/wizard code = happy client.

*Future:* Have already looked at using a modified version of Justin's 
FarCry Builder to provide a visual form building tool.

Chris.

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