IBM Workplace Forms: Guide to Building and Integrating a Sample Workplace Forms Application

116 IBM Workplace Forms: Guide to building and integrating a sample Workplace Forms application

4.8.4 Creating a template repository and form storage structure

In Stage 1 we have no other storage medium as file system (see Figure 4-47). To make it

available to the application, we will create in the WebContent folder of the project a sub-folder

named Redpaper_Demo with subfolders as named in the supplied folders.properties file:

Redpaper_Demo/Form_Templates

Redpaper_Demo/Manager_Forms

Redpaper_Demo/Director_Forms

Redpaper_Demo/Approved_Forms

Redpaper_Demo/Sales_Rep_Forms

Redpaper_Demo/Cancelled_Forms

Figure 4-47 Form storage directory Redpaper_Demo in WebContent folder

In the folder Redpaper_Demo/Form_Templates, paste the created forms. (See Figure 4-48.)

Just to have a real list, we pasted some arbitrary forms in the directory as well. The form we

will use at this stage is named Redpaper_Forms_Sample_v10.xfdl.

Figure 4-48 Same forms folder inside the project structure

This folder will make up the file storage in the directory

<WASRoot>/installedapplications/<applicationName> on the application server. The real

paths used for storage will differ in the production system and the test server running in RAD6

IDE. The code provided here is valid for both cases, but the code provided in the JSPs to

display the file list and generate appropriate links will contain some if/then statements to

match both environments. For details on this topic, see the next sub-chapter.