Best way to use Form Tools on the frontend.

 

Hi,

                                                 

I’m trying to get myself familiar with form tools again at the same times 
as needing to build a frontend form with related objects in FarCry 6. My 
problem is that I’m not sure on the correct approach.

 

What I’m trying to end up with is something like this:

 

*typeSession*

Small list of training session parent objects (generic information, no 
location or dates). E.g:

 

Cooking

Programming

Mining

 

(each of the above would have teaser text, descriptions etc.)

 

*typeSessionDetails*

Related type that will contain specifics about each training session. E.g:

                

1 April 7pm – associated with Cooking from typeSession

2 April 7pm - associated with Cooking from typeSession

              2 March 3pm – associated with Mining from typeSession

 

                Etc.

 

*typeRegistration*

                Name

                Address

                Fields (note plural) selected from typeSessionDetails

 

Then on a frontend registration form where you provide name, address etc. 
you are given a list of all the available training sessions, grouped by the 
parent name (cooking, programming). The parent itself isn’t selectable but 
each of the dates/times are.

 

So what I’ve done so far is build the 3 custom types (typeSession, 
typeSessionDetails and typeRegistration) to hold the various bits of 
information. One field in typeSessionDetails is joined to typeSession via:

 

<cfproperty name="sessionID" type="string" ftLabel="Session" ftType="uuid" 
ftJoin="typeSession"> 

 

All that seems like it is ok but I’m coming unstuck on the frontend. I’m 
unsure of the correct way to control the way the session details are being 
formatted on the form.

 

I want it to appear like below:

 

Cooking: Who needs it when you have a good Chinese restaurant on speed dial?

 

                1 April at 7pm (with a checkbox)

                2 April at 7pm (with a checkbox)

 

Programming: Who needs a life after work?

 

                10 March at 5pm (with a checkbox)

 

I’ve found that I can display the above session details by using 
ftJoin=”typeSessionDetails”, type=”array” and ftRenderType=”checkbox” on 
the field in typeRegistration that holds the array. However all I’m getting 
is the record title.  What I want to do is control the output so I can have 
everything grouped and also filter options so that we don’t display 
sessions that are older than now().

 

I know I can build a librarySelected.cfm file for my types but that, as the 
name implies, is only applicable to the library picker (which I’m not 
using). 

 

Should I be looking at looping over the typeSession type in the frontend 
and for each record, get matching records from the typeSessionDetails using 
getContentObjects? Or is there a quicker easier way? Is there a way to use 
<skin:view> to build form components?  Any pointers would be greatly 
appreciated.

 

Regards

Mark

 

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