Re: What Did I Do In FarCry Today?

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excellent idea, Chris. Thanks for sharing it with the community..

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On 31 Oct 2013, at 11:55, Chris Kent <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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:
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> Today: I extended alterType.cfc
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Result: A simple, non-technical, process to create online forms using built in FarCry formtools/wizard code = happy client.
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> Future: Have already looked at using a modified version of Justin's FarCry Builder to provide a visual form building tool.
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> Chris.
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