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This chapter contains numerous real world samples of the custom dynamic behaviors you can add to your forms and workflows. Many of the business rules described below are easily created with the Visual Rule Builder by simply selecting appropriate functions or controls from your forms/workflows using a visual wizard. Rules can still be written with JavaScript in order to build any degree of complex, powerful business logic and integrate with your Web Services and frevvo connectors.

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This rule makes the message control NicknameMsg visible when the user enters a value into the Nickname input text control. It also hides the message control if the user deletes the value in Nickname.

Condition Wizard

This condition makes use of the built-in function "is filled". It will run whenever the control Nickname has data entered in it.

Action Wizard

Else Action Wizard

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You can build forms/workflows in that meet Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 accessibility standards. Accessible forms/workflows can assist users with visual and motor impairments. When the Accessible property is enabled for a form/workflow, the error, "You can't leave this empty <control name>"  displays if users move ahead from a required field without filling it. The status property for the empty control becomes invalid and sets this special error message. Normally, the status property can be used in a business rule to set (or retrieve) the error message display whenever the control's value is invalid. 

For example, let's say a form has a text control named 't', and a message control named "m". If you write a rule to update 'm' with the status of the required/invalid control 't', as shown below, the message control will show the Error Message only when an invalid value is entered. It returns a blank value if the required control was left empty.

if(!t.valid)
  {
    m.value = t.status;
  }

Similarly, this rule will not display the "You can't leave this empty" message for a required control in a form with Accessibility enabled, because that message is not treated as the control's status. However, the following rule will fill the message control with the literal text specified here (which matches the Accessibiliy message) when the required control is left empty, and the Error Message text if it's filled with an invalid value.

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var event = form.load;
UserID.value = _data.getParameter('subject.id');
FirstName.value = _data.getParameter('subject.first.name');
LastName.value = _data.getParameter('subject.last.name');
FullName.value = _data.getParameter('subject.first.name') + ' ' + _data.getParameter('subject.last.name');
EMail.value = _data.getParameter('subject.email');
ManagerID.value = _data.getParameter('subject.reports.to');

Populate Form with Any User's Info

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This method is useful when you have multiple ComboBoxes and making multiple calls to the same webservice impacts performance. This simple example gets product data from the Database Connector and stores it in a hidden textArea in the form. Then a second rule parses the data and sets the ComboBox options. Please see the chapter on Reusing Dynamic Content for more details.

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This rule will take values selected in one checkbox control and populates those as options in a second checkbox control. For example, a checkbox control (Services) displays all available services. The second checkbox (Selected Services) will display as options the values selected in Services. One scenario you might use this is to customize an employee scheduling form. In Step 1 of the workflow the Coordinator picks the offered services from the full Program Service list. In Step 2 the Employee sees only the smaller list to select from.

var opts = [''];

for (var i = 0; i < ProgramService.value.length; i++ ){
  var v = ProgramService.value[i].replace(/_/g,"  ");
  opts[i] = ProgramService[i].value + "=" + v;
}
SelectedPS.options = opts;  
var event = form.load;

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var date = new Date(Field.value);

var time = new Date('1970-01-01T'+Field.value);

if(form.load)
{
// Date control may have a single digit for the month and/or day
Date.value = "2020-7-1";
// DateTime control must have a double digit month and day
Date_Time.value = "2020-07-01T20:20:20";
}

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Calculating a date based on a five day work week is a common business scenario used in time sheets and displaying deadlines. You can calculate 'x' number of working days from the current date, and set that date in a Date control on your form. Here is the business rule that will add 3 working days to the current date to give you the deadline date. Copy/paste the entire rule including the function in the Rule Editor. Substitute the name of your date control for <your date control>:

 function calcWorkingDays(fromDate, days) {
    var count = 0;
    while (count < days) {
        fromDate.setDate(fromDate.getDate() + 1);
      if (fromDate.getDay() !== 0 && fromDate.getDay() !== 6) {  // Skip weekends
            count++;
      }
    }
    return fromDate;
}
 
if (form.load && <your date control>.value.length === 0){
  var numWorkingDays = 3; 
  var today = frevvo.currentDate().split('-');
  var escDate = calcWorkingDays(new Date(today[0], today[1]-1, today[2]), numWorkingDays);
  var m = escDate.getMonth() + 1;
  var d = escDate.getDate();
  var y = escDate.getFullYear();
  <your date control>.value = m + '-' + d + '-' + y;
}

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You can use a business rule to set a Repeat or Table's min and max properties based on data entered at run time. Imagine an airline reservation form where the number of traveler information sections/rows displayed is based on the number of travelers. This example form has a field labeled Number of Travelers, named 'count', and a repeat named 'TravelRepeat' with a Traveler Info section. You can leave the default values for the Min/Max properties of the Section in the Forms designer or set them to any values provided the min value < max value and the max value  > min value.

This business rule displays numbered sections based on the number of travelers. 

var i;
if (TravelRepeat.itemAdded) {
    i = TravelRepeat.itemIndex;
    TravelNo[i].value = 1 + i;
} else {
    if (count.value > TravelNo.value.length){
        TravelRepeat.maxOccurs = count.value;
        TravelRepeat.minOccurs = count.value;
    } else {
        TravelRepeat.minOccurs = count.value;
        TravelRepeat.maxOccurs = count.value;
    }
    for (i=0; i<TravelNo.value.length;i++) {
        TravelNo[i].value = 1 + i;
    }
} 

Entering "3" as the number of travelers, sets the minOccurs and maxOccurs to 3 and shows three (3) information sections.

Repeat Item Initialization

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var i;
if (TableRepeat.itemAdded) {
    i = TableRepeat.itemIndex;
    TravelID[i].value = 1 + i;
} else {
    if (count.value > TravelID.value.length){
        Table.maxOccurs = count.value;
        Table.minOccurs = count.value;
    } else {
        Table.minOccurs = count.value;
        Table.maxOccurs = count.value;
    }
    for (i=0; i<TravelID.value.length;i++) {
        TravelID[i].value = 1 + i;
    }
} 

The images show the table when the user enters 5 as the number of travelers and then changes the value to 3.

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A rule can dynamically display an image uploaded to your form via the upload control. In this example the upload control is named 'u'. The form also must contain a message control as a place holder for displaying the uploaded image. The rule dynamically creates a URL to the uploaded image in the temporary attachment repository. The upload control's value 'u.value' is a GUID that uniquely identifies the attachment. The uploaded image will be included in the submission PDF.

if (u.value.length > 0) {
  var baseUrl = "/frevvo/web/tn/" +
      _data.getParameter('tn.id') +
      "/user/"+_data.getParameter('user.id') +
      "/app/"+_data.getParameter('app.id') +
      "/form/"+_data.getParameter('form.id');
 
  im.value = '<img src="' +
         baseUrl + '/attachment/' + u.value+'/does_not_matter"/>';
}

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