Customizing FormPublisher's Preview Button

Hello!

Is there a possibility to overwrite the preview button within a FormsPublisher's template? I did not find a solution in the UI Customizing documentation.

Thanks in advance,
skapelle

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Victor2

You can achieve what you want by sing FormAPI and xhtml or if the preview button needs to be updated for the entire server then just replace the image on the server /httpd/iw-cc/formspub/images/icn_preview.gif some where around there :-). Hope it helps.

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Vaqas

Adam Stoller

Hello!

Is there a possibility to overwrite the preview button within a FormsPublisher's template? I did not find a solution in the UI Customizing documentation.

Thanks in advance,
skapelle

Can you explain in more detail what you are trying to accomplish?

skapelle

If a user presses the preview button in a template, a temporary file is generated and opened (this is the standard behaviour)

i.e.: zz_tst_userxy_1_824_userxy_preview.jsp

I would like to pass some arguments (which i get via formapi) to this previewed page.

i.e.: zz_tst_userxy_1_824_userxy_preview.jsp?arg1=val1&arg2=val2

Therefore i thought of customizing the preview buttons functionality.

Any ideas?

Migrateduser

If a user presses the preview button in a template, a temporary file is generated and opened (this is the standard behaviour)

i.e.: zz_tst_userxy_1_824_userxy_preview.jsp

I would like to pass some arguments (which i get via formapi) to this previewed page.

i.e.: zz_tst_userxy_1_824_userxy_preview.jsp?arg1=val1&arg2=val2

Therefore i thought of customizing the preview buttons functionality.

Any ideas?

i dont think there is any way to customize the preview button really (well not in a supported way).. since when you actually click it.. it posts, saves, and generates the zz files, etc.. its more then just opening a new URL.. and stuff like that.. so its more then just that..

if you are generating jsp's and need values from the DCR/Form-api, what about setting them in the tpl that generates the JSP.. you can write some code that detects if you are previewing vs. generating within your TPL (or just call a seperate TPL for preview in general) and only output that part of the JSP on preview.

Valentine

You can always FormAPI and use onPreviewHandler.

One way to achieve what ytou are trying to do, is have preview handler call external script to generate a page, and then redirect to the file, that was generated, with your parameters.

ISCBorisB

You can always FormAPI and use onPreviewHandler.

One way to achieve what ytou are trying to do, is have preview handler call external script to generate a page, and then redirect to the file, that was generated, with your parameters.

jrandall suggestion is a correct way of doing that sort of things. It is much less code, all in one place (PT), no asynchronous threads
on the Server (callServer) to bother with and so on. It will also work in both View and Edit modes, your approach can not be done in View.