I have found several articles mentioning that using "UCM Web Forms" you can easily provide and interface for contributor to enter data in a specific format(split into specific fields).
In my case the data for some of the fields(e.g. drop-downs) have to be taken out from a database. And when the form is submitted it will be nice if the data is stored in the DB too, so is this possible with these web forms.
Also it will be great if someone can provide a link to a demo/tutorial/working example of using UCM Web Forms.
http://blogs.oracle.com/kyle/entry/adding_ucm_web_forms_to_site_s
Gives an explanation and example.
Hopefully this helps whoever stumbles on this question.
Oracle UCM provides a mechanism to check in documents but no to manipulate directly database entries. You have to write your own code to manipulate the form/data or use a Java framework for this.
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My server is Joomla 2.5, the version of CB is 1.8.1 and it runs on a MySQL database.
I would like to analyze the data in my database and create simple reports, for example: a list of all email addresses of all subscribers in a given period in time.
Is the right tool for this available in CB, in Joomla as an extension or should I go for a separate tool to dive into the database directly?
I searched in the CB site for reporting but didn't find a plugin for it, did find some 'advanced search' extensions for Joomla but they do not support reports as such.
I had to write custom components for this kind of requirements a few times, if you are familiar with Joomla coding I strongly suggest this approach it will be the most effective unless you need strong business intelligence, in which case you'd better switch to a bi tool.
The difference is: if you can pull all the data you need with just a few simple queries, write them yourself; if you need to analyze data, use a proper tool.
If you however are not a developer you might get away with a reporting tool, or a versatile CCK for Joomla.
Community Builder won't do this on it's own.
The easiest and quickest way to achieve this is to use an extension like ChronoForms and/or ChronoConnectivity which can help retrieve and display the required data from one or more tables.
ChronoForms: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/contacts-and-feedback/forms/1508
ChronoConnectivity: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/directory-a-documentation/directory/5661
These extensions make it easy to restrict a report to a particular group etc without having to write code.
There are plenty of examples in the chronoengine.com FAQs and the forum if you need help.
Probably the original question is not valide anymore, about an year later, but now there is a component that does what you need if you use ”registerDate” field as search criteria. The name of the component is JEmbedAll and you can find more information about that here: http://www.goldengravel.eu/jembedall-manual#.VVph_bvyNC0
I would like to create a web page, which documents manually-inputted data about user permissions, that looks like below, which is really pulling data out of a MySQL table.
The way it should act is that whenever someone updates the table to overwrite a value, the old values are stored in a log as a "past revision" -- Which I have no problem on the database side, but I want those past revisions to show up behind the current data on the website, as seen below.
Someone needs to be able to see the current data at a glance, but also the past revisions that expand somehow when clicked. I want this done without having the page refreshed, so maybe jQuery or some active scripting?
That's the heart of the question here, is what technology can easily accomplish the needs of this interface? What do you guys recommend? Examples would be very beneficial. Thanks in advance.
You may try out SVG (along with some jquery for some rich interface):
http://www.w3schools.com/svg/default.asp
I am using mongo db in my yii project.
I am newbie in yii and mvc. I need to show some fields from database to user. And also allow them to edit those fields when they click edit. From what I know so far, I need a modal to create form. Modal should extend CActiveRecord (because I am allowing edit).
But I have no clue how this is going to work with mongodb ? Its very differnt from mysql (structure and fields are not definite in mongodb). Some users have field (column) abc while some do user do not have it.
I am looked into the mongodbsuite for yii. But its very hard for me to understand that at this level.
I am willing to write my own custom code, if someone can give me a direction. (or I'll have to write my own code destroying the feel of yii/mvc. Fetching everything and inserting into textboxes and then allow users to edit those)
I think this extension will help you. Pls check - YIIMongoDBSuite
What i suggest instead of writing your own code and doing testing to make it work, it is always better to shift to mysql,oracle or anything that Yii supports. it would save life
Yii Supports
SQLite
mysql
PostgreSQL
SQL Server
Oracle
It might be worth asking this question on the yiiframework forum
http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/
where there seem to be people actively using yii and mongodb.
Is there any way to get and process the UCM content from a Java class? What I need is to sort a content list based on the metadata field. I can get it from a .jsff page. But I need to iterate dt:contentListTemplateDef with that sorted list. Any information will be very helpful.
Have you looked into RIDC? The Remote IDC is available for both 10g and 11G UCM. It allows you to call upon (almost) every service available in UCM from within your custom java application, including searching, sorting, ...
See here for the 11g documentation.
It is also possible to return any query as an RSS feed, JSON or XML.
I am wondering by what the old XML RPC API will be replaced ? We developed a quite complete native(iOS+Android) and HTML5 implementation for the front-end and we'd like to offer that as SDK and REST API.
Right now we are trying to avoid any additional PHP plugin/extension for Joomla and we are currently very interested how we can automate else the data flow for customers. Currently we already support SQL direct access, complete Akeeba backups, or a local/remote Jave-App which feeds the apps from SQL directly, as cron job for instance. At the end and it should go all into our JSON format.
Is there any other project which provides a sort a formal or specified access to Joomla content and functions beyond the internal PHP Joomla API ? We just don't know what will be the replacement(it was too basic anyway). The Joomla website and the docs doesn't help at all to figure such things out.
I hope this question is legitim here. Any suggestion is welcome. thanks,
g.