Creating your own Default Form Values

To create your own default form values you must create a new class that implements the FormDefaultValues interface:

package com.openkm.plugin.form;

import com.openkm.bean.form.FormElement;
import net.xeoh.plugins.base.Plugin;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * FormDefaultValues
 *
 */
public interface FormDefaultValues extends Plugin {
    String getName();
    void setDefaultValues(String grpName, List<FormElement> formElementList);
}

The new class must be loaded into the package com.openkm.plugin.form because the application plugins system will load it from there. See the sample below:

Method description

Example of the default form values implementation

package com.openkm.plugin.form;

import com.openkm.bean.form.FormElement;
import com.openkm.bean.form.Input;
import net.xeoh.plugins.base.annotations.PluginImplementation;

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Formatter;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Implementation of default form values
 */

@PluginImplementation
public class FormDefaultValuesDate implements FormDefaultValues {

    @Override
    public String getName() {
        return "Date Default Values";
    }

    @Override
    public void setDefaultValues(String grpName, List<FormElement> formElementList) {
        Formatter fmt = new Formatter();
        if(grpName.equalsIgnoreCase("okg:test")) {
            for(FormElement element: formElementList) {
                if(element.getName().equals("okp:test.date")) {
                    Input input = (Input) element;
                    if(input.getValue().isEmpty()) {
                        DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
                        Date date = new Date();
                        input.setValue(dateFormat.format(date));
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

}

Metadata definition

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE property-groups PUBLIC "-//OpenKM//DTD Property Groups 2.8//EN" "http://www.openkm.com/dtd/property-groups-2.8.dtd">
<property-groups>
   <property-group label="Test" name="okg:test" defaultValueClassName="com.openkm.plugin.form.FormDefaultValuesDate">
      <input label="Fecha" type="date" name="okp:test.date"/>
   </property-group>
</property-groups>