Short description Form Editing of Structured Data
I want to put up structured database records that people can edit. In my particular case, it's aviation data to supplement or replace the Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (see http://navaid.com/dafif.html). Doing a simple database editing form is easy, but I'd like to leverage the trust and history rollback ability of a wiki. I don't know if this possible, and I don't know if anybody else could use it.
Wiki Form Feature
Twiki has such a feature: Wiki Forms, which makes TWiki as an enterprise level wiki.
Reference: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiForms
FormCreate and FormSubmit
There are two interesting plugins can do form editing, handle form data.
But lack some feature, which TWiki forms have. If the following features implemented, 80% of twiki's form features moin will have.
Parser: FormData
Define a FormData filed in page
If a page contains a FormData data.
{{{#!FormData form_define_page=FormDefinePageName
field1; data 1
field2; "data 2
continue ..."
field3; data 3
}}}
Display of the FormData page
If user has edit permission for the page, show an editable form.
If user has no edit permission, display a read-only form table.
The form action is a pre-defined action, and from defination comes from <FormDefinePageName>.
Submit of the form will change data of the FormData filed in the page.
Macro: FormSearch
Add a FormSearch macro in page
Search data in pages which have certain FormData. <<FormSearch(form_define_page=FormDefinePageName, fields=all, ...)>>
Display of the FormSearch macro
Display a search form against a from defined in <FormDefinePageName>.
The pages contain the structure data which is matched will display as the search result.
-- JiangXin 2008-09-21 03:52:43