Agile Enterprise Application Development with Flex

Blending the LiveCycle API with Custom Flex Applications

We have armed ourselves with customer services. We have completed the SupplierProcess and modeled a Manufacturer’s process with AndyNailsProcess. We coordinated all processes via an asynchronous event. Now, it’s time to tie it all to the end-user UI.

We will limit the explanation to a single use case: how to start the process from the custom Flex application. Figure 10-40 represents the screen as it is seen by the retailer when placing an order.

The snippet of the Create Order VBox from this screen is shown in Example 10-40 (see Example 10-44 for the complete code of the corresponding CreateRequest.mxml).

Figure 10-40. Retailer starts the SupplierProcess by clicking Submit

Example 10-40. The fragment of the CreateOrder VBox

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mx:VBox xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
   creationComplete="onCreationComplete()"
   >.  .  .

   <mx:HBox id="controlBar" width="100%" height="24" styleName="controlsStyle" >
      <mx:Label text="Create Order" width="100%" color="white" />
      <mx:Button label="Submit" click="submitRequest()"/> <mx:Button label="Cancel" click="cancelRequest()"/> </mx:HBox> <mx:Form width="100%"> <mx:FormItem label="Order Description: " width="100%" fontWeight="bold"> <mx:TextInput id="descriptionText" width="90%" fontWeight="normal"/> </mx:FormItem> <mx:FormItem label="Retailer Name: "> <mx:Label ...