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The  product installation can be customized in many ways. For example OEM partners can brand  with their own company images and look.

properties make it easy to implement many of the common customizations that all customer and OEM partners will want to consider.

Data API provides a programmatic protocol for viewing and managing resources such as tenants, users, applications, forms, schemas, etc.

Customization properties can be changed in the web.xml or the frevvo.xml files. Any parameter in web.xml can be duplicated in frevvo.xml and the value in frevvo.xml takes precedence over the value in web.xml. We suggest making changes to the context parameter values in the frevvo.xml if you are using the tomcat bundle. This keeps all your modified parameters in one place and makes it easy to upgrade to newer releases. See Installation Tasks for more information.

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    <Parameter name="frevvo.mail.from.email" value="" override="false"/>
    <Parameter name="frevvo.mail.bounce.email" value="" override="false"/>
    <Parameter name="frevvo.mail.debug" value="false" override="false"/>
    <Parameter name="frevvo.actions.debug" value="true" override="false"/>
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Common Customizations

For the most common configuration customization tasks that every customer and OEM partner will want to consider see Installation Tasks. Also see the web.xml and frevvo.xml files for all of the context parameters that can be changed in . 

CSS for Forms/Flows

If you are using  in-house, Cascading Style Sheet code that was used in themes applied to forms/flows in previous  releases, can be added to a newly created style.css file in the frevvo.war file . The context parameter, frevvo.css.url, in the web.xml file must be changed to point to it.  The web.xml file is included in the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\webapps\frevvo.war. The frevvo.war must be unzipped/rezipped after modifications have been made as outlined in the steps below: Let's use the following css code which hides the submit and cancel buttons on all forms/flows as an example:

  1. Stop Live Forms if it is running.
  2. Unpack the frevvo.war file to a temporary location of your choice: e.g. c:\tmp\frevvo-war. Change the file extension from .war to .zip if necessary.
  3. Create a text file named style.css. To hide the submit and cancel button globally add the code below. 
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div.f-control.f-submit.s-submit {
        display: none;
}
div.f-control.f-submit.s-cancel {
        display: none;
} 

     4. Save the changes to the style.css file.

     5. Copy the style.css file to the  c:\tmp\frevvo-war directory. 

     6. Navigate to c:\tmp\frevvo-war\WEB-INF directory. Edit the web.xml file.

     7. Search for the frevvo.css.url context parameter. set the value of frevvo.css.url context parameter in the web.xml file to point to the newly created style.css file. The frevvo.css.url context parameter should look like this: Remember to save your changes.

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 <context-param>
         <param-name>frevvo.css.url</param-name>
         <param-value>${context.path}/style.css</param-value>
         <description>Custom Stylesheet URL</description>
 </context-param>

     8. Rezip all the files in the c:\tmp\frevvo-war directory, even the ones you did not edit — if you change directories or zip them differently, Live Forms may not load correctly. Rename the modified file frevvo.war.

     9. Copy the modified frevvo.war to the  <frevvo-home>\tomcat\webapps directory of your  in-house installation.

    10. Restart your Live Forms server.

If you are using tomcat, you can add the frevvo.css.url parameter to the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf\catalina\localhost\frevvo.xml instead of modifying the parameter in the web.xml file. To do this, replace steps 6 and 7 above with the following steps then continue with step 8 listed above:

     6. Navigate to <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf\catalina\localhost. Edit the frevvo.xml file with a text editor. 

     7. Add this parameter to the frevvo.xml file. Remember to save your changes.  

 

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<Parameter name="frevvo.css.url" value="${context.path}/style.css" override="false"/>

If you make these changes, the Login and Forget Password buttons on the  login screen will also be hidden. This is useful for OEMS that embed  in their own application.

 

API

The  Data API enables programmatic access to the all resources and data stored in the  server. The API provides a simple protocol for viewing and managing resources such as forms, applications, schemas, etc. OEM partners as well as end user customers can use the API to extend the features and provide tighter integration with other applications.

You will need to install a client library in order to use the API.

Branding

VAR and OEM partners can brand Live Forms with their own company images and look. This is accomplished via  web application parameters.

Set Branding Parameters

The frevvo.war file contains a web.xml with branding parameters. In the frevvo-tomcat bundle, frevvo.war is located in: <frevvo-home>\tomcat\webapps - when the war file is unzipped to a temporary directory, the web.xml file will be found in <tmp>\WEB-INF.  Refer to Installation Tasks for the steps to repackage frevvo.war after parameters in web.xml have been editied.

For example, the parameter, frevvo.menu.bar,  if added to the web.xml file, prevents the menu bar from being rendered.  Any of the menu items (Downloads,Templates, Help, Docs, Forum, Contact) can be removed from the menu bar via configuration parameters in the web.xml or frevvo.xml files.  If all of the menu items are disabled, the menu bar should be removed.  

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<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.menu.bar</param-name>
        <param-value>false</param-value>
        <description>Show menu bar. Set to false if all menu items are disabled</description>
</context-param>

Set branding parameters at container level

If you choose to brand at your web container level, note the web configuration changes at the container level take precedence over (override) those in the frevvo.war web.xml file. Again using Tomcat as an example:

  • Open the file: <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf\Catalina\localhost\frevvo.xml.
  • Create a parameter with the same name as you see in frevvo.war's web.xml file. For instance, for the logo image:
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<Parameter name="frevvo.logo.url" value="<url to your image>" override="false"/>

These are the brandable parameters and their defaults:

ParameterDescription Default
frevvo.home.urlHome page for the Company Logo link ${context.path}
frevvo.logo.urlURL to the Company Logo image. Also applies to Spaces${context.path}/images/bright/TransparentLogo-NoBeta.png
frevvo.help.urlURL to the Help page${context.path}${servlet.path}/static/help/designer
frevvo.docs.urlURL to the Documentationhttp://docs.frevvo.com/d/display/frevvo/frevvo+v5+Documentation+Home
frevvo.forum.urlURL to the Forumhttp://forum.frevvo.com/forum/
frevvo.blog.urlURL to the bloghttp://blog.frevvo.com
frevvo.product.nameThe Product NameLive Forms
frevvo.copyrightProduct Copyright One-LinerCopyright 2006-2012 frevvo Inc. All rights reserved.
frevvo.license.urlURL to License Agreement${context.path}${servlet.path}/static/termsDL
frevvo.contact.emailContact Us email addressmailto:info@frevvo.com
frevvo.downloads.menuShow Downloads menu itemtrue
frevvo.gallery.menuShow Gallery (Examples) menu itemtrue
frevvo.templates.menuShow Templates menu item true
frevvo.css.urlCustom Stylesheet URL 
frevvo.poweredby.markupLogo in form footer when the Logo property setPowered by Live Forms™
frevvo.page.titleHTML title prefix for all Live Form pagesfrevvo
frevvo.menu.barShow menu bartrue
frevvo.oem.branding.classNames css class applied to body of UI pagesempty
frevvo.certificate.signature Ignore SSL Security when posting to an https endpointempty

Branding External Urls 

Notice that several of the parameters use Url templates. For example, frevvo.help.url references a help file named designer.xsl that is part of frevvo.war and is located in the directory <frevvo-home>\WEB-INF\xsl\main\help after the war file has been unzipped . You may wish to bundle up a replacement help file and store your replacement file in that same directory. In that case you will keep the templates ${context.path}${servlet.path}/static that are part of the default path and append your own help file name. It can be an html file, myAppHelp.html. Or if your help is an external file you can replace the entire default value ${context.path}${servlet.path}/static/help/designer with a Url such has http://mycompany/myapp/help.html. Refer to Installation Tasks for the steps to repackage frevvo.war after parameters in designer.xsl have been editied.

Hiding Url Menu Items 

The frevvo.war file contains a web.xml with branding parameters. In the frevvo-tomcat bundle frevvo.war is located in: <frevvo-home>\frevvo\tomcat\webapps - when the war file is unzipped, the web.xml file will be found in <frevvo-home>\WEB-INF.  Refer to Installation Tasks for the steps to repackage frevvo.war after parameters in web.xml have been editied. Certain menu items are links to external Urls. Examples are Downloads, Forum, Docs etc. It is possible to completely remove any of these menu items by deleting the URL or setting the appropriate property. If no URL exists the menu item will be hidden.These paramters are found in the web.xml file. 

For example, if you want to hide the Downloads menu item:

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The  product installation can be customized in many ways. For example OEM partners can brand  with their own company images and look.

properties make it easy to implement many of the common customization that all customer and OEM partners will want to consider.

Data API provides a programmatic protocol for viewing and managing resources such as tenants, users, applications, forms, schemas, etc.

Customization properties can be changed in the web.xml or the frevvo.xml files. Any parameter in web.xml can be duplicated in frevvo.xml and the value in frevvo.xml takes precedence over the value in web.xml. We suggest making changes to the context parameter values in the frevvo.xml if you are using the tomcat bundle. This keeps all your modified parameters in one place and makes it easy to upgrade to newer releases. The frevvo war settings section of the frevvo.xml file is shown below.

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<!-- 
        frevvo war settings 
-->    
    <Parameter name="frevvo.mail.from.email" value="" override="false"/>
    <Parameter name="frevvo.mail.bounce.email" value="" override="false"/>
    <Parameter name="frevvo.mail.debug" value="false" override="false"/>
    <Parameter name="frevvo.actions.debug" value="true" override="false"/>
    <Parameter name="frevvo.rule.debug" value="true" override="false"/> 
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Common Customizations

For the most common configuration customization tasks that every customer and OEM partner will want to consider see Installation Tasks. Also see the web.xml and frevvo.xml files for all of the context parameters that can be changed in . 

API

The  Data API enables programmatic access to the all resources and data stored in the  server. The API provides a simple protocol for viewing and managing resources such as forms, applications, schemas, etc. OEM partners as well as end user customers can use the API to extend the features and provide tighter integration with other applications.

You will need to install a client library in order to use the API.

Branding

VAR and OEM partners can brand Live Forms with their own company images and look. This is accomplished via  web application parameters.

Set Branding Parameters

The frevvo.war file contains a web.xml with branding parameters. In the frevvo-tomcat bundle, frevvo.war is located in: <frevvo-home>\tomcat\webapps - when the war file is unzipped to a temporary directory, the web.xml file will be found in <tmp>\WEB-INF.  Refer to Installation Tasks for the steps to repackage frevvo.war after parameters in web.xml have been edited.

Modifying the frevvo.xml file

Follow these steps to add/modify context parameters in the frevvo.xml file. If you are using tomcat, making your configuration changes here, will make it easier when you upgrade :

  1. Stop if it is running.
  2. Navigate to <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf\catalina\localhost\frevvo.xml.
  3. Open the file with a text editor.
  4. The installation tasks listed below will reference the frevvo.xml and web.xml files when appropriate. You can configure anything in frevvo.xml that you can configure in web.xml. When you add parameters to the file, use the same syntax as the ones already there. Here is an example of a parameter to control the Maximum Size of Attachments that users can upload.
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<Parameter name="frevvo.attachment.maxsize" value="10485760" override="false"/> 

      5. Save the file after all your changes are made. Restart .

Modifying the web.xml file

The web.xml file is included in the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\webapps\frevvo.war. The frevvo.war must be unzipped/rezipped after modifications have been made as outlined in the steps below:

  1. Stop  if it is running. 
  2. Unpack the frevvo.war file to a temporary location of your choice: e.g. c:\tmp\frevvo-war. Change the file extension from .war to .zip if necessary.
  3. Edit c:\tmp\frevvo-war\WEB-INF\web.xml.
  4. Make the desired configuration changes - see appropriate sections of this page for information on specific parameters. Save the changes to the web.xml file. 
  5. Rezip all the files in the c:\tmp\frevvo-war directory, even the ones you did not edit — if you change directories or zip them differently, Live Forms may not load correctly:

    This is the correct structure for the frevvo.war zipfile.

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  6. Make sure you create the zipfile with the directory structure as shown in the image above. It is an easy mistake to include the containing directory in the zipfile. If you do this, Live Forms may not load correctly. Zip will often give your zipfile a .zip extension. Make sure you change this to a .war extension. 

  7. Copy the updated frevvo.war file to <frevvo-home>tomcat\webapps.
  8. Restart your  server.

Consider the frevvo.menu.bar parameter,  if added to the web.xml file, prevents the menu bar from being rendered.  Any of the menu items (Downloads,Templates, Help, Docs, Forum, Contact) can be removed from the menu bar via configuration parameters in the web.xml or frevvo.xml files.  If all of the menu items are disabled, the menu bar should be removed.  

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<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.menu.bar</param-name>
        <param-value>false</param-value>
        <description>Show menu bar. Set to false if all menu items are disabled</description>
</context-param>

The parameter in the frevvo.xml file would be:

Code Block
<Parameter "frevvo.menu.bar" value="false" override="false"/>
Info

Any parameter in web.xml can be duplicated in frevvo.xml and the value in frevvo.xml takes precedence over the value in web.xml. If you plan to override the web.xml context parameter values and you are using the frevvo Tomcat bundle, we suggest doing so in frevvo.xml. This keeps all your modified parameters in one place and makes it easy to upgrade frevvo to newer releases.

Set branding parameters at container level

If you choose to brand at your web container level, note the web configuration changes at the container level take precedence over (override) those in the frevvo.war web.xml file. Again using Tomcat as an example:

  • Open the file: <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf\Catalina\localhost\frevvo.xml.
  • Create a parameter with the same name as you see in frevvo.war's web.xml file. For instance, for the logo image:

Code Block
<Parameter name="frevvo.logo.url" value="<url to your image>" override="false"/>

The override="false" prevents the values in the configuration parameters in frevvo.xml from being overridden.

These are the brandable parameters and their defaults:

ParameterDescription Default
frevvo.home.urlHome page for the Company Logo link ${context.path}
frevvo.logo.urlURL to the Company Logo image. Also applies to Spaces${context.path}/images/bright/TransparentLogo-NoBeta.png
frevvo.help.urlURL to the Help page${context.path}${servlet.path}/static/help/designer
frevvo.docs.urlURL to the Documentationhttp://docs.frevvo.com/d/display/frevvo/frevvo+v5+Documentation+Home
frevvo.forum.urlURL to the Forumhttp://forum.frevvo.com/forum/
frevvo.blog.urlURL to the bloghttp://blog.frevvo.com
frevvo.product.nameThe Product NameLive Forms
frevvo.copyrightProduct Copyright One-LinerCopyright 2006-2012 frevvo Inc. All rights reserved.
frevvo.license.urlURL to License Agreement${context.path}${servlet.path}/static/termsDL
frevvo.contact.emailContact Us email addressmailto:info@frevvo.com
frevvo.downloads.menuShow Downloads menu itemtrue
frevvo.templates.menuShow Templates menu item true
frevvo.css.urlCustom Stylesheet URL 
frevvo.poweredby.markupLogo in form footer when the Logo property setPowered by Live Forms™
frevvo.page.titleHTML title prefix for all Live Form pagesfrevvo
frevvo.menu.barShow menu bartrue
frevvo.oem.branding.classNames css class applied to body of UI pagesempty
frevvo.certificate.signature Ignore SSL Security when posting to an https endpointempty

Branding External Urls 

Notice that several of the parameters use Url templates. For example, frevvo.help.url references a help file named designer.xsl that is part of frevvo.war and is located in the directory <frevvo-home>\WEB-INF\xsl\main\help after the war file has been unzipped . You may wish to bundle up a replacement help file and store your replacement file in that same directory. In that case you will keep the templates ${context.path}${servlet.path}/static that are part of the default path and append your own help file name. It can be an html file, myAppHelp.html. Or if your help is an external file you can replace the entire default value ${context.path}${servlet.path}/static/help/designer with a Url such has http://mycompany/myapp/help.html. Refer to Installation Tasks for the steps to repackage frevvo.war after parameters in designer.xsl have been editied.

Hiding Url Menu Items 

The frevvo.war file contains a web.xml with branding parameters. In the frevvo-tomcat bundle frevvo.war is located in: <frevvo-home>\frevvo\tomcat\webapps - when the war file is unzipped, the web.xml file will be found in <frevvo-home>\WEB-INF.  Refer to Installation Tasks for the steps to repackage frevvo.war after parameters in web.xml have been editied. Certain menu items are links to external Urls. Examples are Downloads, Forum, Docs etc. It is possible to completely remove any of these menu items by deleting the URL or setting the appropriate property. If no URL exists the menu item will be hidden.These parameters are found in the web.xml file. 

For example, if you want to hide the Downloads menu item:

Code Block
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.downloads.menu</param-name>
        <param-value>false</param-value>
        <description>No Downloads menu</description>
</context-param>

For example if you wish to hide the Docs menu item, edit the frevvo.docs.url and delete the content:

Code Block
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.docs.url</param-name>
        <param-value></param-value>
        <description>No URL set will hide the Docs menu and top link</description>
</context-param>

These parameters in the frevvo.xml file would be :

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<Parameter name="frevvo.downloads.menu" value="false" override="false"/>
<Parameter name="frevvo.docs.url" value="" override="false"/>

 

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The look & feel of the Live Forms application is controlled via css. frevvo.css.url gives you the ability to add your own style sheet if you need to customize the look & feel of the page itself such as the background colors and sizes of the items on the pages. You can use a tool such as firebug to learn how the page is styled with css and thus how to override the default styling. 

Forms

The Powered by frevvo™ logo can be customized via the frevvo.poweredby.markup branding parameter. If this branding parameter is an empty string no logo will appear on any form. The logo can still be turned off on any given form via the Show Logo form property.

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Hiding Form/Doc Action Wizards

The Live Forms designer form and doc action  buttons can be customized via the web.xml configuration file. Web.xml  is contained in the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\webapps frevvo.war. It is located in <frevvo-home>\WEB-INF\web.xml after the frevvo.war is unzipped to a temporary directory. Refer to Installation Tasks for the steps to unzip and repackage frevvo.war after parameters in web.xml have been edited. By default all wizards are visible in the form & doc action buttons page. To hide a wizard, remove it from the associated context parameter below.

Code Block
<!-- Wizards -->
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.formaction.wizards</param-name>
        <param-value>closePage,displayMessage,goToPage,goToPaypal,formPost,echoUsingGoogleDocument,createConfluencePage,mergeToConfluencePage</param-value>
        <description>Which form action wizards are displayed</description>
</context-param>
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.erroraction.wizards</param-name>
        <param-value>displayErrorMessage,goToErrorPage</param-value>
        <description>Which error action wizards are displayed</description>
</context-param>
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.docaction.wizards</param-name>
        <param-value>doNothing,emailDocumentDefault,docPost,emailDocumentGoogle,saveToPaperVision,saveToGoogleDocuments</param-value>
        <description>Which doc action wizards are displayed</description>
</context-param>
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.docuri.wizards</param-name>
        <param-value>unsetDocUris,saveToGoogleSpreadsheets,manualDocUris</param-value>
        <description>Which doc uri wizards are displayed</description>
</context-param>
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.flows.formaction.wizards</param-name>
        <param-value>closePage,displayMessage,goToPage,formPost,createConfluencePage,mergeToConfluencePage</param-value>
        <description>Which form action wizards are displayed</description>
</context-param>
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.flows.erroraction.wizards</param-name>
        <param-value>displayErrorMessage,goToErrorPage</param-value>
        <description>Which error action wizards are displayed</description>
</context-param>
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.flows.downloadsdocaction.menu<wizards</param-name>
        <param-value>false<value>doNothing,emailDocumentDefault,docPost,saveToPaperVision,saveToGoogleDocuments</param-value>
        <description>Which doc action <description>Nowizards Downloadsare menu<displayed</description>
</context-param>

For example if you wish to hide the Docs menu item, edit the frevvo.docs.url and delete the content:

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-param>
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.docsflows.docuri.url<wizards</param-name>
        <param-value><value>unsetDocUris,manualDocUris</param-value>
         <description>No URL set will hide the Docs menu and top link</description>
</context-param>

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The look & feel of the Live Forms application is controlled via css. frevvo.css.url gives you the ability to add your own style sheet if you need to customize the look & feel of the page itself such as the background colors and sizes of the items on the pages. You can use a tool such as firebug to learn how the page is styled with css and thus how to override the default styling. 

Forms

The Powered by frevvo™ logo can be customized via the frevvo.poweredby.markup branding parameter. If this branding parameter is an empty string no logo will appear on any form. The logo can still be turned off on any given form via the Show Logo form property.

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Hiding Form/Doc Action Wizards

The Live Forms designer form and doc action  buttons can be customized via the web.xml configuration file. Web.xml  is contained in the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\webapps frevvo.war. It is located in <frevvo-home>\WEB-INF\web.xml after the frevvo.war is unzipped to a temporary directory. Refer to Installation Tasks for the steps to unzip and repackage frevvo.war after parameters in web.xml have been edited. By default all wizards are visible in the form & doc action buttons page. To hide a wizard, remove it from the associated context parameter below.

Code Block
<!-- Wizards -->
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.formaction.wizards</param-name>
        <param-value>closePage,displayMessage,goToPage,goToPaypal,formPost,echoUsingGoogleDocument,createConfluencePage,mergeToConfluencePage</param-value>
        <description>Which form action wizards are displayed</description>
</context-param>
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.erroraction.wizards</param-name>
        <param-value>displayErrorMessage,goToErrorPage</param-value>
        <description>Which error action wizards are displayed</description>
</context-param>
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.docaction.wizards</param-name>
        <param-value>doNothing,emailDocumentDefault,docPost,emailDocumentGoogle,saveToPaperVision,saveToGoogleDocuments</param-value>
        <description>Which doc action wizards are displayed</description>
</context-param>
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.docuri.wizards</param-name>
        <param-value>unsetDocUris,saveToGoogleSpreadsheets,manualDocUris</param-value>
        <description>Which doc uri wizards are displayed</description>
</context-param>
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.flows.formaction.wizards</param-name>
        <param-value>closePage,displayMessage,goToPage,formPost,createConfluencePage,mergeToConfluencePage</param-value>
        <description>Which form action wizards are displayed</description>
</context-param>
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.flows.erroraction.wizards</param-name>
        <param-value>displayErrorMessage,goToErrorPage</param-value>
        <description>Which error action wizards are displayed</description>
</context-param>
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.flows.docaction.wizards</param-name>
        <param-value>doNothing,emailDocumentDefault,docPost,saveToPaperVision,saveToGoogleDocuments</param-value>
        <description>Which doc action wizards are displayed</description>
</context-param>
<context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.flows.docuri.wizards</param-name>
        <param-value>unsetDocUris,manualDocUris</param-value>
        <description>Which doc uri wizards are displayed</description>
</context-param>
Info

Any parameter in web.xml can be duplicated in frevvo.xml and the value in frevvo.xml takes precedence over the value in web.xml. If you plan to override the web.xml context parameter values and you are using the frevvo Tomcat bundle, we suggest doing so in frevvo.xml. This keeps all your modified parameters in one place and makes it easy to upgrade frevvo to newer releases.

Hiding Data Sources/Palette

Hiding Data Sources on the designer screen can be accomplished by adding the ?_method=post&edit=true and &showDS=false parameter to the edit link of a form.  Create the URL using the steps below:

Then copy and paste it in another tab of the browser. You have to add it to the Edit link, you cannot click Edit first and then add this parameter to the link that appears in your browser.

  1. Click the Share icon Image Removed of a form on the Forms Home page and copy the "Raw Url" of the form into another tab of your broswer.
  2. Add the "?_method=post&edit=true" parameter to the end of the link.
  3. Add the "&showDS=false" parameter to hide Data Sources or "&showPalette=false" to hide the control palette.
  4. When the form displays, either the Data Source section or the palette will be hidden.

Here are examples of the URl:

test.wlselb.frevvo.com/frevvo/web/tn/nancy.com/user/designer/app/_EVHJUIP-EeG1bcc-I8Sq_w/formtype/_cm3dAIP-EeG1bcc-I8Sq_w?_method=post&edit=true&showDS=false

test.wlselb.frevvo.com/frevvo/web/tn/nancy.com/user/designer/app/_EVHJUIP-EeG1bcc-I8Sq_w/formtype/_cm3dAIP-EeG1bcc-I8Sq_w?_method=post&edit=true&showPalette=false

Customizing the HTML Page Title Prefix

You can use the frevvo.page.title context parameter in the frevvo.xml file to  change the HTML prefixes of the titles of all Live Form pages. The Preview Page in the designer will display with value of the the frevvo.page. title  parameter  - <browser name>.  For example, to change the HTML page prefix to a company name, follow the steps below:

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<description>Which doc uri wizards are displayed</description>
</context-param>
Info

Any parameter in web.xml can be duplicated in frevvo.xml and the value in frevvo.xml takes precedence over the value in web.xml. If you plan to override the web.xml context parameter values and you are using the frevvo Tomcat bundle, we suggest doing so in frevvo.xml. This keeps all your modified parameters in one place and makes it easy to upgrade frevvo to newer releases.

Hiding Data Sources/Palette

Hiding Data Sources on the designer screen can be accomplished by adding the ?_method=post&edit=true and &showDS=false parameter to the edit link of a form.  Create the URL using the steps below:

Then copy and paste it in another tab of the browser. You have to add it to the Edit link, you cannot click Edit first and then add this parameter to the link that appears in your browser.

  1. Click the Share icon Image Added of a form on the Forms Home page and copy the "Raw Url" of the form into another tab of your broswer.
  2. Add the "?_method=post&edit=true" parameter to the end of the link.
  3. Add the "&showDS=false" parameter to hide Data Sources or "&showPalette=false" to hide the control palette.
  4. When the form displays, either the Data Source section or the palette will be hidden.

Here are examples of the URl:

test.wlselb.frevvo.com/frevvo/web/tn/nancy.com//u/a700f434-969e-432a-9779-655f9fc30259/app/_EVHJUIP-EeG1bcc-I8Sq_w/formtype/_cm3dAIP-EeG1bcc-I8Sq_w?_method=post&edit=true&showDS=false

test.wlselb.frevvo.com/frevvo/web/tn/nancy.com//u/a700f434-969e-432a-9779-655f9fc30259/app/_EVHJUIP-EeG1bcc-I8Sq_w/formtype/_cm3dAIP-EeG1bcc-I8Sq_w?_method=post&edit=true&showPalette=false

Customizing the HTML Page Title Prefix

You can use the frevvo.page.title context parameter in the frevvo.xml file to  change the HTML prefixes of the titles of all Live Form pages. The Preview Page in the designer will display with value of the the frevvo.page. title  parameter  - <browser name>.  For example, to change the HTML page prefix to a company name, follow the steps below:

  1. Ensure that  is not running.
  2. Navigate to <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf\catalina\localhost. Open the frevvo.xml with a text editor.
  3. Add the information below to the frevvo war setting section of the file
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<Parameter name="frevvo.page.title" value="Company Name" override="false"/>

      4. Save the file and restart .

Adding a Custom Button to the Designer Tool Bar

Adding a custom button to the  tool bar can be accomplished with the frevvo.form.edit.toolbar.buttons context parameter in the web.xml file. The value of the parameter is a JSON string that determines which buttons are visible in the toolbar. This context parameter is not optional - if it is not present there will be no buttons in the designer toolbar. 

Here is an example of how to edit the web.xml file to add the configuration parameter to add a custom Test Form button to the toolbar. The comment shows example JSON to add a new button. You can specify an id, a class and a title.  Be sure to rezip the frevvo.war file, as described above, when the changes are complete. 

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<context-param>
		<param-name>frevvo.form.edit.toolbar.buttons</param-name>
		<param-value>{"buttons":[{"id":"e-preview-form"},{"id":"e-edit-form"},{"id":"e-rules-form"},{"id":"e-formactions-form"},{"id":"e-docactions-form"},{"id":"cancel-top"},{"id":"commit-top"}]}</param-value>
		<!--
		Example JSON to add a new toolbar button.
		<param-value>{"id":"e-test-form","class":"e-test-form e-toolbar-icon","title":"click to test the form"}</param-value>
		-->
		<description>Which edit mode toolbar buttons are rendered in the form designer</description>
</context-param>
This will generate something like this:

Code Block
<a id="{id}" title="{title}" class="{class}" href="#" onclick="return CustomWizard.show('{id}');"></a>

CustomWizard.show(id) calls your code. Make sure it is defined. The FrevvoCustomActions, as shown below, is an example:

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var CustomWizard = {
	show: function (id) {
		if (parent.FrevvoCustomActions)
			parent.FrevvoCustomActions.doAction (id);
		else if (FrevvoCustomActions)
			FrevvoCustomActions.doAction (id);
	}
}

Customizing Runtime Messages and Labels in the Designers

You can modify the text of runtime messages and customize the labels in the Form/flow designers by changing string name/value pairs in the default file found in the frevvo.war. You can customize the Form designer and most labels (but not all) in the Flow designer.

The English version of the modified strings appear on the UI once is restarted.

For example, if you wanted to:

  • Change the text of the "Access denied. Authentication required" message that the user sees when accessing a form that requires logging into (Public in tenant).
  • Customize the labels of the Palette, Custom, Properties and Data Sources sections of the Forms designer.

The default file in the frevvo.war contains all of the runtime and designer strings that can be customized. Both requirements listed above can be accomplished by modifying this file.

Follow these steps:

  1. Stop  if it is running.
  2. Navigate to <frevvo-home>\tomcat\conf\catalina\localhost. Open webapps directory.
  3. Copy the frevvo.xml with a text editor.
  4. Add the information below to the frevvo war setting section of the file
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<Parameter name="frevvo.page.title" value="Company Name" override="false"/>

      4. Save the file and restart .

Adding a Custom Button to the Designer Tool Bar

Adding a custom button to the  tool bar can be accomplished with the frevvo.form.edit.toolbar.buttons context parameter in the web.xml file. The value of the parameter is a JSON string that determines which buttons are visible in the toolbar. This context parameter is not optional - if it is not present there will be no buttons in the designer toolbar. 

Here is an example of how to edit the web.xml file to add the configuration parameter to add a custom Test Form button to the toolbar. The comment shows example JSON to add a new button. You can specify an id, a class and a title.  Be sure to rezip the frevvo.war file, as described above, when the changes are complete. 

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<context-param>
		<param-name>frevvo.form.edit.toolbar.buttons</param-name>
		<param-value>{"buttons":[{"id":"e-preview-form"},{"id":"e-edit-form"},{"id":"e-rules-form"},{"id":"e-formactions-form"},{"id":"e-docactions-form"},{"id":"cancel-top"},{"id":"commit-top"}]}</param-value>
		<!--
		Example JSON to add a new toolbar button.
		<param-value>{"id":"e-test-form","class":"e-test-form e-toolbar-icon","title":"click to test the form"}</param-value>
		-->
		<description>Which edit mode toolbar buttons are rendered in the form designer</description>
</context-param>
This will generate something like this:
Code Block
<a id="{id}" title="{title}" class="{class}" href="#" onclick="return CustomWizard.show('{id}');"></a>

CustomWizard.show(id) calls your code. Make sure it is defined. The FrevvoCustomActions, as shown below, is an example:

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  1. war file to a temporary location of your choice: e.g. c:\tmp\frevvo-war. Change the file extension from .war to .zip if necessary.
  2. Edit c:\tmp\frevvo-war\WEB-INF\data\locales\default.
  3. To change the text of the "Access denied. Authentication required" message locate the Error messages section in the file. Notice that the strings on the left side of the '=' have spaces escaped with the '\' character. This is needed so do not remove that. The escape character is not needed on the right side of the '='. Enter the text that you want on the right side of the '='

    Code Block
    # Error messages
    Access\ Denied.\ Authentication\ required.= Please Sign into Live Forms
  4. To change the labels in the Forms designer, locate the Form Designer toolbox section of the file. Enter the labels that you want to display to the right of the '='

    Code Block
    # Form Designer Toolbox
    Palette=Palette Controls
    Custom=My Custom Controls
    Properties=Control Properties    
    Data\ Sources=Schemas
    Drag\ and\ drop\ controls\ from\ the\ form\ into\ the\ header\ above.\ You\ can\ then\ re-use\ them\ in\ other\ forms.=
    Drop\ Submit\ buttons\ from\ the\ palette\ to\ add\ to\ the\ form.=
    Drop\ controls\ from\ the\ palette\ to\ add\ to\ the\ form.=
    Drag\ and\ drop\ controls\ from\ the\ palette\ into\ the\ form.=
    Drag\ and\ drop\ controls\ from\ the\ palette\ or\ from\ the\ form.=
  5. Save the changes to the default file. 
  6. Rezip all the files in the c:\tmp\frevvo-war directory, even the ones you did not edit — if you change directories or zip them differently, Live Forms may not load correctly:

    This is the correct structure for the frevvo.war zipfile.

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  7. Make sure you create the zipfile with the directory structure as shown in the image above. It is an easy mistake to include the containing directory in the zipfile. If you do this, Live Forms may not load correctly. Zip will often give your zipfile a .zip extension. Make sure you change this to a .war extension. 

  8. Copy the updated frevvo.war file to <frevvo-home>tomcat\webapps.
  9. Restart your  server.

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    Customized "Access denied. Authentication required" message
    Column

     

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    Customized Labels in the Forms Designer

frevvo.certificate.signature context parameter

When a form's doc action is configured to post to an https endpoint, you can ignore ssl security using the frevvo web.xml param parameter frevvo.certificate.signature. Services that accepts https and do not have a security certificate setup might generate an error like this:

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 You can tell frevvo to ignore this error using the frevvo.certificate.signature context parameter . This should work with services that have self-signed certificates that aren't installed in jvm certificate file and with certificates from a security authority. Add this context parameter to the  web.xml file included in the frevvo.war zipfile. See Installation Tasks Modifying the web.xml file for the instructions to unzip and rezip the war after modifications to the web.xml are completed or add the parameter to frevvo.xml.

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<context-param>
  <param-name>frevvo.certificate.signature</param-name>
  <param-value></param-value>
  <description>Set to true to accept self-signed certificates</description>
 </context-param> </context-param>

This parameter in frevvo.xml should be:

Code Block
<Parameter name="frevvo.certificate.signature" value="true" override="false"/>

Check Database Encoding

The parameters, frevvo.db.check.encoding and frevvo.db.encoding.error, have been added to the web.xml file included in the <frevvo-home>\tomcat\webapps\frevvo.war. These parameters can be used to specify how to handle a check of database encoding and how to display the error if it is not UTF8. They are particularly useful for OEMs who may want to skip the fatal error by setting the frevvo.db.check.encoding parameter to false.

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  1. Unzip the frevvo.war as explained here. Rezip it after the modifications are made.
  2. The parameters are located in the Database Schema checking on startup section: 

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 <!-- Database Schema checking on startup -->
    <context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.db.check.encoding</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
        <description>Check the database encoding on startup</description>
    </context-param>
    <context-param>
        <param-name>frevvo.db.encoding.error</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
        <description>If encoding is checked and is wrong, then it is a fatal error, otherwise only a warning is logged</description>
    </context-param> 

Pointing frevvo Help Links to your Documentation

 These parameters in the frevvo.xml file would be:

Code Block
<Parameter name "frevvo.db.check.encoding" value="true" override="false"/>
<Parameter name "frevvo.db.encoding.error" value="true" override="false"/>

Branding CSS

OEM partners can use the context parameter, frevvo.oem.branding.class to name a css class that will be placed onto the body of the  UI pages (form designer, etc.). Follow the steps below to do this:

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