V2.0 Known Issues
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We try very hard to solve all issues prior to release. Sometimes problems slip thru that will be solved in a patch or future product release. Here is a list of issues that will be fixed soon.
| Ticket | Description | Work-around |
|---|---|---|
| 363 | Schemas with repeating model groups are not yet supported. While repeating elements are supported, xsd constructs like the following are not. <sequence minOccurs="2" maxOccurs="3"/> | Do not use elements with repeating model groups in your forms. |
| 392 | Schemas choice groups are not yet supported. All choices appear on the form as required even though only one is.
<xs:element name="promotion">
<complexType>
<choice>
<element name="Discount" />
<element name="None" />
</choice>
</complexType>
</xs:element>
| Do not use elements of type Choice in your forms. |
| 904 | When using IE6 to edit forms, all controls sometimes turn blue in the form designer during a drag/drop operation. The controls often stay blue making it difficult to see the form. | Sometimes you can turn off the blue by clicking on the form. However frevvo highly recommends using IE7 or Firefox (1.5 or 2.0) when designing your forms. Note: IE6 is fully supported in use mode |
| 1002 | Form fields contained within a repeat control appear to be missing use mode. | Make sure in edit mode you leave your repeats expanded. In the global narrow-vertical-green theme, repeat controls are not displayed on the form. Only their content is displayed. If they are collapsed by default there will be no way to expand them to reveal the fields they contain. You can also customize your own theme that makes repeats visible in use mode. Then it is ok to leave them collapsed by default. |
| 1004 | Styling field labels with heading tags can on rare occasion cause the label to display twice above the field. | It is best practice to style labels by adding a CSS Class name to the control in the edit properties panel. And then styling the label via a custom theme. First, heading tags are notoriously inconsistently sized between browsers. For instance, <h3>Membership List</h3> may appear much different when your form is viewed in firefox versus IE6. Second, especially if your application has multiple forms, adding inline styling is not recommended as all of your styling is best done via a theme. And third, it is very important to note that the control's label is by default used as the control's xml element name. Html tags syntax is not valid as an element name. So you must therefore also add a valid element name in the control's edit properties. |
| 1361 | NPE using Email Service if form submit is asynchronous | When using the Email Service as the form's document action, do not uncheck the Synchronous checkbox in the forms properties. This causes a NullPtrException. This will be resolved in an up coming release.
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| 1418 | Cannot change the label on a Repeat Control | Error occurs when trying to change a Repeat Control's label in the Form Designer. This bug was introduced in the v1.3.1 update posted on July 5, 2007. This was fixed in v1.5 released July 29, 2007
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| 1444 | Users created by admin user in download version expire after 30 days | To solve this, login as the admin user and edit the user in question. The user profile form has an expiration field. Change the expiration date to something much further in the future.
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| 1465 | Browser displays an out of memory error when accessing the form server |
If the specific error is: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space Set the min and max heap size: -Xms??m -Xmx??m Reasonable choices for the heap size are: -Xmx512m -Xms128m The other error is in the perm gen space. Java has a fixed space allocated for classes and other statics that is usually enough in normal cases, but could be quickly filled up if there is on the fly code generation or thing of the sort. Set the max perm size: -XX:MaxPermSize=??M Where ?? can be something such as 64 If you are running frevvo under tomcat, edit <tomcat>/bin/catalina.bat and add these parameters to the JAVA_OPTS environnment variable. |
| 392 | Schemas choice groups are not yet supported. All choices appear on the form as required even though only one is.
<xs:element name="promotion">
<complexType>
<choice>
<element name="Discount" />
<element name="None" />
</choice>
</complexType>
</xs:element>
| Do not use elements of type Choice in your forms. |
| 1002 | Form fields contained within a repeat control appear to be missing use mode. | Make sure in edit mode you leave your repeats expanded. In the global narrow-vertical-green theme, repeat controls are not displayed on the form. Only their content is displayed. If they are collapsed by default there will be no way to expand them to reveal the fields they contain. You can also customize your own theme that makes repeats visible in use mode. Then it is ok to leave them collapsed by default. |
| 1004 | Styling field labels with heading tags can on rare occasion cause the label to display twice above the field. | It is best practice to style labels by adding a CSS Class name to the control in the edit properties panel. And then styling the label via a custom theme. First, heading tags are notoriously inconsistently sized between browsers. For instance, <h3>Membership List</h3> may appear much different when your form is viewed in firefox versus IE6. Second, especially if your application has multiple forms, adding inline styling is not recommended as all of your styling is best done via a theme. And third, it is very important to note that the control's label is by default used as the control's xml element name. Html tags syntax is not valid as an element name. So you must therefore also add a valid element name in the control's edit properties. |
| 1007 | Single quote not allowed in field label. Form designer indicates an error in the field label | Form labels currently do not allow the single quote character. If you try to enter a label such as "Friend's email" the form designer will indicate that the label is not allowed and it will not update the label on the form. You can work around this by doing two things: (1) using the html single quote character like this "Friend’s email", (2) set the Element Name property. The form builder will accept this label ONLY if the Element Name also contains a valid xsd name. Then the designer will accept the label with the special characters and it will look as you wish with a single quote. |
| 1367 | Opening form in Form Designer in firefox browser pops up dialog "Warning: Unresponsive script..." | Large forms may take longer to load into the browser than firefox's default script timeout of 5 seconds.
To change the default timeout: 1. Type about:config in Firefox's address bar. 2. Filter down to the value for dom.max_script_run_time. 3. Change the value to something higher than the default (which is 5.) I set mine to 20. 4. Bask in interruptionless browsing!
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| 2762 | IE6 dropdown controls obscure both the help box and calendar popups. | This is a well known issue with IE6 forms with dropdown controls. Reorganize your form so that dropdown controls are not placed next to date controls or controls where you have added help text |
