Landing page: show forms/templates as cards

[ebruchez]

Now that we have the ability to associate a screenshot with a form, this becomes even more interesting. We could show:

• Published forms as individual cards, with
  • title
  • maybe description
  • screenshot
    • issue: do we need to load the form definition to find the screenshot? or add <screenshot> to the list of metadata we store in the db column
  • latest form data could also optionally be pulled in
    • issue: what columns to show? would need to do like Search page, which would mean reuse of code
• Form author: form templates as cards for quickly starting on a new form

The question, of course, is how to configure this. Right now, we have:

<property
    as="xs:string"
    name="oxf.fr.landing.cards"
    value="quick-links published-forms form-builder-forms demo-forms"/>

Could we, as a start, allow passing form triplets? For example, for published forms:

quick-links
published-forms
form-builder-forms
acme/sales/3
orbeon/contact/1

Ideally, of course, we'd like a way in the UI to do this. For example, now we have a checkbox that says "Allow use as form template". We could have other options in Form Builder to determine the Landing page behavior. Later, it would be even better to be able to do this directly from the landing page, if the user has sufficient rights for global settings.

This would have a global effect, not a per-user effect. But we don't have yet the notion of user profile/user settings anway.

[ebruchez]

Did a proof of concept. It's easy to load form information including screenshot. Issues to solve:

• what to do if no screenshot? we need content
  • show the latest data?
  • New vs. Summary
  • stats: data count, last modified, more?
• in any case having the option to show the latest data would be good
• layout
  • form screenshot must scroll;
  • form titles must have consistent height