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Formulator changes

  1. 4.2

    Bugs Fixed

    • Sticky forms should now work correctly in the presence of unicode. Encoded data is automatically converted to unicode if the information is pulled from the REQUEST form.
  2. 4.1

    Bugs Fixed

    • It was not possible to make DateTime fields not required when allow_empty_time was enabled. Fixed.
  3. 4.0

    Features Added

    • Added limited ability to output unicode for selected fields. Only works properly in Zope 2.6.x, and the HTML pages these forms are in need an output encoding set (such as UTF-8, which is also Formulator's default encoding). If unicode checkbox is checked Formulator will try to interpret its input in the Form's encoding (default is UTF-8). It will also try to display its values in that encoding. Note that only field values and items currently work with unicode -- the rest of the textual properties of a field are still stored as 8-bits. If you make sure that these properties are encoded as UTF-8 (or whatever encoding you choose for the form) things should be okay, however.
    • Can now also change forms using XML (not just view it).
    • DateTime fields can now optionally input AM/PM.
    • DateTime fields can now optionally be set to allow time to be left empty.
    • whitespace_preserve option on string type fields. If turned on, whitespace will not be automatically stripped and will count as input.
    • render_view method on fields to render the value outside a widget.
    • Added some code support used by SilvaMetadata to enable rendering of fields with Zope's :record syntax.

    Bugs Fixed

    • Fixed a Python2.2 compatibility bug in XMLObjects.py
    • DateTimeField now picks up default values from REQUEST properly if necessary.
    • XML representation of the LinkField "check_timeout" value messed the type="float" attribute.
    • Additional unit tests.
  4. 3.1 (2002/12/20)

    Features Added

    • Error messages can now be included in the XML serialization.
    • Ability to encode lists as a special type in values.

    Bugs Fixed

    • Some more proper encodings.
    • Handle case where group has no field.
    • Handle DateTime field better.
  5. 3.0 (2002/11/26)

    Features Added

    • FormToXML and XMLToForm modules have functions to serialize (most of) form to XML and read it in again (over an existing form).
    • New XML tab for forms which shows the XML serialization (no saving option yet).
    • FSForm.py uses XML serialization to provide a formulator form version for FileSystemSite. It does not get imported by default.

    Bugs Fixed

    • The email validator has an improved regular expression.
    • Fix error that occured when trying to render DateTimeField as hidden.
  6. 2.0 (2002/03/06)

    Features Added

    • Changes to exception infrastructure so errors can now be imported and caught in a through the web Python script. Example: 
                from Products.Formulator.Errors import ValidationError, FormValidationError
    • added __getitem__ to Field so instead of using get_value() you can also do this in Python: form.field['title'], and in ZPT you can use this in path expressions: form/field/title
    • made a start with Formulator unit tests; some validators get automatically tested now.

    Bugs Fixed

    • Removed dependencies of the name of Add and Edit button to make internationalization of the management interface easier.
    • added permission to make ZClasses work a bit better (but they still don't cooperate well with Formulator, I think. I don't use ZClasses, so I hope to hear from this from ZClass users)
    • Form's properties tab now visible and form tabs stopped misbehaving.
    • Lists and such should handle multiple items with the same value a bit better, selecting only one.
    • the LinkField now checks site-internal links better.
  7. 1.0 (2001/10/26)

    Bugs Fixed

    • Fixed bug in form settings tab.
  • the LinkField now checks site-internal links better.
  1. 0.9 (2001/10/05)

    Features Added

    • New TALES tab for fields as a more powerful Override tab; PageTemplates needs to be installed to make it work.
    • added name attribute for forms. When the form header is rendered, name will be an attribute. This can be used to control forms with Javascript.

    Bugs Fixed

    • More compliance with Zope product guidelines; moved dtml files from www dir to dtml dir.
    • Fixed a bug in that form titles would not work. Forms now have titles, and you can change them in the settings tab. (Formulator does not use the title property internally though)
  2. 0.1 (2001/07/27)

    Bugs Fixed

    • Fixed bug with renaming groups. Previously, renamed groups were not properly stored in the ZODB.
    • Made MultiSelectionValidator (used by MultiListField among others) deal better with integer values.
    • Hacked around CopySupport changes in Zope 2.4.0; renames work again now.
  3. 0 (2001/07/10)

    Features Added

    • New field: RawTextAreaField. A textarea field that doesn't do a lot of processing on the text input.
    • Checked in BSD license text.

    Bugs Fixed

    • Fixed minor bug in year handling of DateTimeField.
    • Now hidden fields also take text from extra property.
    • Fixed bug in MultiItemsWidget; would not deal with only a single item being selected.
  4. 9.5 (2001/06/27)

    Features Added

    • Added FileField (with browse button). Can be used to upload files if form is set to multipart/form-data.
    • Added LinkField for URLs.
    • Made ListField and RadioField more tolerant of integer (and possibly other) values, not only strings.
    • Made ListField and RadioField happy to deal with non-tuples too in the items list. In this case, the item text and value will be identical.
    • Refactored ListWidget and RadioWidget so they share code; they both inherit from SingleItemsWidget now.
    • Added LinesField to submit a list of lines in a textarea.
    • Added MultiListField and MultiCheckBoxField, both use new MultiItemsWidget and MultiSelectionValidator.
    • Added EXPERIMENTAL PatternField.
  5. 9.4 (2001/06/20)

    Features Added

    • Added API docs for Form, BasicForm and ZMIForm.
    • Renamed the confusingly named PythonForm and PythonField to ZMIForm and ZMIField, as they are used from the Zope Management Interface and not from Python.
    • Added render() method to form for basic form rendering.
    • Added Formulator HOWTO document.

    Bugs Fixed

    • Removed some validation code that wasn't in use anymore (items_method).
    • Removed has_field_id in Form as this duplicated the functionality of has_field.
    • Turned
      in Python sources to
      for XHTML compliance.
    • Tweaked radiobutton; text is now closer to the button itself, different buttons are further apart.
  6. 9.3 (2001/06/12)

    Features Added

    • added RadioField for simple display of radio buttons.
    • added action, method and enctype property to form settings. These are displayed using the special form.header() and form.footer() methods.
    • added override tab to allow all properties to be overridden by method calls instead. items_method in ListField went away.
    • added ability to display DateTimeFields using drop down lists instead of text input. Added some other bells and whistles to DateTimeField. Changed some of the inner workings of composite fields; component fields are now unique per field instance instead of shared between them.
    • is_required() utility method on field to check whether a field is required.
    • some internal features, such the ability to have a method called as soon as a property has changed.

    Bugs Fixed

    • Fixed typos in security assertions.
    • use REQUEST.form instead of REQUEST where possible.
    • display month and day with initial zero in DateTimeField.
    • Fixed bug in validate_all_to_request(); what can be validated will now be added to REQUEST if possible, even if a FormValidationError is raised.
  7. 9.2 (2001/05/23)

    Features Added

    • Ability to rename groups, including the first Default group.
    • Improved support for sticky forms; form.render() can now take an optional second argument, REQUEST, which can come from a previous form submit. Even unvalidated fields will then be sticky.
    • fields can call an extra optional external validation function (such as a Python script).
    • New alternate name property: the alternate name is added to the result dictionary or REQUEST object after validation. This can be useful to support field names which wouldn't be valid field names, which can occur in some locales.
    • New extra property; can be used to add extra attributes to a HTML tag.
    • Some IntegerField properties can now be left empty if no value is required, instead of having to set them to 0.
    • Merged functionality of RangedIntegerField into IntegerField. RangedIntegerField is not addable anymore, though supported as a clone of IntegerField for backwards compatibility. Leaving start and end empty in the new IntegerField will mean those checks will not be performed.

    Bugs Fixed

    • Added more missing security declarations.
    • html_quote added in various places to make fields display various HTML entities the right way.
  8. 9.1 (2001/05/13)

    Features Added

    • Widgets now have a hidden property. If set, the widget is drawn as a hidden field. hidden fields do get validated normally, however.
    • Changed API of Widget and Validator slightly; render() and validate() methods now take an extra key argument indicating the name the field should have in the form. This is necessarily to handle sub fields of composite fields.
    • Added EmailField and FloatField.
    • Added some infrastructure to support 'composite fields'; fields composed out of multiple sub fields.
    • Added DateTimeField, the first example of a composite field (field made of other fields).

    Bugs Fixed

    • General code cleanups; removed some unused methods.
    • Fixed security assertion for validate_all_to_request() method.
    • MethodFields now check whether they have View permission to execute listed Python Script or DTML Method.
    • RangedInteger is now < end, instead of <=, compatible with the documentation.
  9. 9 (2001/04/30)

    Initial Release

    • Initial public release of Formulator.
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