From Paper to Digital – A collection of notes, hints, how-to's, and tips around Adobe AEM Forms and general web form development.
When creating Adaptive Forms you are likely looking to return JSON rather than XML. It is much easier to parse than XML and there are just so many tools out there to parse JSON today making the move to JSON is just a logical thing to do. First off, full credit for this article has …
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You may find that using current-dateTime() in a JEE process workflow provides you with GMT time wreaking havoc on your reporting and date storage. You may also be getting a full string date when you're just looking for a standard ISO date. To get a formatted date, use the "format-dateTime-withFormat" function along with the format …
When filtering dates from submitted data in MongoDB the date field requires little bit of rocket science. In my Mongo collection I store a field called formsubmissionDate with an ISO date value. To filter on specific date values you need to create a new date within your filter. In JavaScript you'd code something along the …
A traditional JEE forms developer environment involves form authors using Workbench to checkout forms then edit those forms in Designer. Then, check those XDPs back in for use by the server for rendering. For customers that use the JEE platform as a "black box" where there are no long lived or short lived processes deployed …
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There's an easy fix to the issue: com/rsa/jsafe/JSAFE_SecureRandom Cannot serve request to /content/forms/af/formwithattachments/jcr:content/guideContainer.af.submit.jsp in com.adobe.aemds.guide.servlet.GuideSubmitServlet Exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/rsa/jsafe/JSAFE_SecureRandom Make sure AEM isn't running. Open your sling.properties file under \crx-quickstart\conf\ with Brackets or equivalent good editor. Add the following properties to the sling.properties file sling.bootdelegation.class.com.rsa.jsafe.provider.JsafeJCE=com.rsa.* sling.bootdelegation.class.org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider=org.bouncycastle.* Save and start your server. Take note that if …
If you try to render an Adaptive Form that was previously working well and after a modification gives you nothing but a "Error reading 'guideInitializationState' on type com.adobe.aemds.guide.common.GuideContainer" error then you've created a repeating panel in your form that isn't mapped to a schema. If you've created a form based on a schema, repeating panels …
If you would like to have the standard "red star" appear next to your field label as soon as the field is made required, add the CSS below to your form-wide client library. It will ensure that fields that are required will be marked as required prior to the user submitting the form and a …
This document is a working document. I have a number of personal best practices that are habit and not documented. This document should be considered a living document where items are added as they are discovered or shared by others. Adaptive Forms: Object Naming Conversions: Panels Panel names are camel case starting with an upper …
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