#2: Fieldsets

Contents

1. Motivation
2. Proposal
3. Implementation
4. Risks
5. Participants

Proposed by

Michael Dunlap

Seconded by

Steve McMahon

Proposal type

Architecture

Assigned to release

• PloneFormGen 1.1.3

State

completed

Motivation

PloneFormGen should support the <fieldset> tag for forms because it allows for visual grouping of related items on a form.

Proposal

It could be implemented with a simple folderish type to be added to the form to which form elements are added. Fieldsets cannot contain fieldsets which is easy enough to restrict

Implementation

It may be possible to do this without further intervention into the Archetypes macros by implementing Fieldset start and Fieldset end widgets. They'll be odd widgets because they won't themselves present validatable XHTML, but I think it's possible.

Risks

The problem is that there's no support for html fieldsets in the current Archetypes. PloneFormGen uses Archetypes for all its widgets and display logic, so that's a limiting factor.

Implementing html fieldsets will require more extensive intervention into the Archetypes edit macro. That's something of a risk, because it means that PFG will likely break if this get changed in future versions of Archetypes.

Participants

Steve McMahon