Printed Forms form Relationships (ODT)

The Printed Forms (ODT) for relationships is used to generate a printed form, certificate, staff list or other standardized form soley from a relationship.

Rather than relying on a report, this data is loaded from the form caches, the hippo_XXXX tables. Because of this, it avoid the delay needed to generate a report and uses (almost) real-time data to generate the template.

At the moment, this cannot use any functions defined in a relationship, or any relationships that use a RIGHT JOIN.

Depending on your needs, you may wish to look at these other methods for standardized form generation:

• Printed Forms
• Standardized Letters (ODT)
• Printed Forms with Reports (ODT)

Magic Data

The magic data to define a printed form based on relationship is defined underneath a page called $pageName. There are two places to define pages, either a top-level page under /I2CE/page/$pageName or a module page under /modules/$module/$pageName for the module $module.

Under you define:

• class(required scalar node) Value is "I2CE_PageGenerateRelationshipTemplate"
• args (required parent node)
  • relationship (required scalar node) = $relationship
  • template_upload (optional parent node)
    • content required scalar binary node. the binary ODT file.
    • name required scalar node. the name of the file when it is generated
  • template (optional scalar node). If template_upload is not defined, this is the name of a file in the ODT_TEMPLATES search path.
  • sort_functions (optional parent node). We set this up when we want to sort data that will be displayed on the form Note that this feature requires PHP 5.3 or higher
    • 0,1,2,3, ... (required parent node). this builds array of functions to be used on this relationship
      • field (required scalar node) the field containing data we want to sort in the form $formname+$fieldname. e.g. person+firstname. Remember $formname is the name of the form as referenced in the relationship
      • compare (required scalar node) the the function we use to sort. this is any PHP function that takes two arguments and returns -1, 0 or 1. e.g. strcmp, strncmp, strnatcasecmp
  • segment_break. optional scalar node. what to use a a page/row break for the template. Defaults to

    <text:p text:style-name="P1"/>

    which is for a page break. For a line break it is

    <text:line-break/>

You need to google for the others.

• • task: optional parent node
  • use_display_fields: (optional scalar node) Defaults to true. If true, we get the display version of a field, for example the field position+job would be "General Nurse." it evaluates to false then we get the raw data fields, for example "position+job" is "job|42"

To easily create the template_upload node, simply browse under magic data to /I2CE/page/$pageName/args, create a sub node named template_file. Do not set its type. Under the "Import" drop-down menu select the to load a binary file.

Calling the Page

If your relationship has primary form $form, you call the page with:

$pageName?id=$form|$id

where $id is the id of the primary form you are interested in.

It will loop through all the joined in data for the primary form with the given id and add a certificate/printed form for each.