1.8

Submitting and previewing data
When you hit the Submit button in a template in the Designer (on the Live tab), the submitted
data can be sent back to the Designer in the form of an XML file (see below). The advantage of
this is that you can immediately start creating a Data Mapping Configuration and use the data in
a template.
Data submitted from the Capture OnTheGo app can be sent to you in the form of an email or
saved via a Workflow configuration. Both options are explained below.
Note
The Form's validation should ensure that the submitted data is valid. Set the Form's validation
method to jQuery and set the requirements and a message per field (see "Changing a Form's
validation method" on page531 and "How to make COTG elements required" on page433).
Get Job Data File on Submit
It is possible to test a COTG Form in the Designer and get access to an XML file that contains
the submitted data, without having a Workflow configuration to handle the data.
This option requires that:
l Workflow has been installed on the local machine, and the Workflow HTTP/Soap Service
has been started. To do this, in the Workflow menu, click Tools > Service Console, then
right-click HTTP/Soap Server and start it.
l
In the Designer menu Window > Preferences > Web, the Workflow URL has been set to
the correct host. The default is http://127.0.0.1:8080/_getSampleFormData_. This points
to an internal process of the Workflow component running at that host.
If these conditions are met, you can get the XML file as follows:
1.
Open the Form in the Designer, toggle to Live mode and fill out the form. Click the Add
Dummy Data button (found on the toolbar and only available in the Live view) to populate
empty form fields with dummy data. This adds dummy data to standard HTML form inputs
as well as COTG inputs like the camera and signature widgets. Inputs that already
contain data are left untouched. For a list of dummy data values, see the table below.
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