Actions of type Set form fields form XML can be used to fill form fields with data from an XML document. This makes use of XPaths to select a value from the XML document.

User interface for configuring the options of an action of type Set form fields from XML.

Parameter

  • XML source
    A previous action providing the XML document to be used.

  • XSL transform
    An optional XSL transform applied to the XML document.

  • XPath

    • Field name
      Name of the form element to be changed.

    • XPath
      XPath for selecting a value of the XML document. The value of the form field will be set to this value.

Example

To illustrate how this action works, consider the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xfc-data xfc-version="4.5.2" generation-date="2017-01-09 11:23:43.190 MEZ">
<processes>
 <process process-uid="f1e677ad-012d-4586-884b-ac2ee029cb00" creation-date="2017-01-09 11:23:43.0 MEZ" project-name="XML" status="">
  <form version="1">
   <field name="upl1">
    <plainValue><![CDATA[]]></plainValue>
    <values count="0"/>
    <label><![CDATA[]]></label>
   </field>
   <field name="tf1">
    <plainValue><![CDATA[foobar]]></plainValue>
    <values count="1">
     <value index="0"><![CDATA[foobar]]></value>
    </values>
    <label><![CDATA[]]></label>
   </field>
   <field name="xf-action">
    <plainValue><![CDATA[btnPrev]]></plainValue>
    <values count="1">
     <value index="0"><![CDATA[btnPrev]]></value>
    </values>
    <label><![CDATA[]]></label>
   </field>
  </form>
 </process>
</processes>
</xfc-data>

To select the value of the field named tf1, use this XPath:

//processes//field[@name="tf1"]/plainValue/text()
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