Hi guys, I'm an experienced software engineer but scripting XWiki still seems to be about as clear as mud to me. I know I could create a Form. I know this could result in a new Page being generated. However, I have no idea how to make this happen. Is an event raised when I submit the form? If so, how do I attach a handler to that event? What do I then need to do to squeeze the user-provided data into a page generated from a template? Or into some

data store from which a templated page would be generated? I would be incredibly grateful if someone could throw together a very quick walk-through of doing the following from a web browser: Creating a new form with a singular field, e.g. Name Writing the code which takes the contents of this form and creates a new page with title "Name's Greeting" and content "Hello, Name!" This does raise further questions. For example: Can a user go back later and edit the data in the form? Or would the resulting page need to be edited instead?

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Hi Hugh, On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Hugh Hulme <hugh(a)collstream.co.uk> wrote: Glad I could help. Maybe there should be a link on Feel free to add it, XWiki.org is a wiki ;-)

Guillaume > (BTW - search has now ceased to function - I guess Vincent must be > playing with it? :)) > > Thanks again, > - Hugh > > -----Original Message----- > From: devs-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:devs-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf > Of Guillaume Lerouge > Sent: 01 March 2010 3:53 PM > To: XWiki Developers > Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] Documentation request > > Hi Hugh, > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Hugh Hulme <hugh(a)collstream.co.uk> > wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm an experienced software engineer but scripting XWiki still seems >> to be about as clear as mud to me. >> >> I know I could create a Form. >> I know this could result in a new Page being generated. >> However, I have no idea how to make this happen. >> Is an event raised when I submit the form? If so, how do I attach a >> handler to that event? What do I then need to do to squeeze the >> user-provided data into a page generated from a template? Or into some > >> data store from which a templated page would be generated? >> >> I would be incredibly grateful if someone could throw together a very >> quick walk-through of doing the following from a web browser: >> >> Creating a new form with a singular field, e.g. Name Writing the code >> which takes the contents of this form and creates a new page with >> title "Name's Greeting" and content "Hello, Name!" >> >> This does raise further questions. For example: Can a user go back >> later and edit the data in the form? Or would the resulting page need >> to be edited instead? >> > > You should try following this tutorial: > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial > > It will help a lot. > > Guillaume