[Portfolio] filefile displayName

[Jon Wheat]

Erica,
I actually did that - changed the renderer to blank out that name, but what happened was unexpected.  It did that every time that form is displayed - even when you edit it.  So when you created it - it was blank and you entered a name in there (good yea something I did works).  When you went back to edit something - it blanked it out what you had typed in (not good, figures, I'm not as good as I thought). 
 
I think at one point I even tried XSLT code to check for a value and not blank it out ... but that condition happens when you create a new one :) so then nothing happens and you're back to the default behavior with your extra code in there.
 
Its been a year or so since I've played around with it, but I don't think there's even a set of constant text in there to check for to see if its the 'new' default value.  Maybe a : ??  I can't remember.
 
All that probably doesn't help much, other than to know someone else had that issue and tried to work around it to no avail.  I eventually convinced the trainers to train the faculty to tell the students (sounds like the telephone game) to change that value when they uploaded files.
 
-Jon
 
 
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>>> Sean Keesler <sean.keesler at threecanoes.com> 7/13/2010 10:29 AM >>>
We COULD use the renderer to filter out "filefile" and replace it with
nothing...but that is really not how the default behavior should be
anyway.
I am seeing this when we:

- preview the form
- create a "New Form Item" in Resources
- "Create New" when the form is in a portfolio template.

You are correct, it does not occur in the matrix.


Sean Keesler
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Ackerman, Erica <ericaack at umich.edu> wrote:
> Sean,
>
> I don't understand the inner workings of this, and I don't necessarily remember the details, since we use a custom renderer to blank out the Display Name field, forcing the user to enter something, but... My memory is that that "filefile" only shows up in certain preview situations, like Forms > Edit > Preview. In the actual Matrices tool, the default display name is that ugly concatenation of elements. I don't remember what it is if you create a form in the Portfolios tool, but I didn't think it was filefile. But if I'm wrong, sorry to waste your time.
>
> Erica
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: portfolio-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:portfolio-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Sean Keesler
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 10:04 AM
> To: osp
> Subject: [Portfolio] filefile displayName
>
> When working on a custom form renderer I notice that the default
> displayName for a piece of content ends up being "filefile".
>
> <formView>
>  <formData>
>    <artifact>
>      <metaData>
>          <displayName>filefile</displayName>
>
> When a user fills out the form, that is what gets stuck in that
> Display Name input area. It is a bad choice.
> Where is that being generated?
> Can that be just left as an empty string?
> I could test for that and remove it with custom renderers....but....
>
> Sean
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