OhMyForm

[ianhyzy]

@robi this is normal! please be nice to open source devs, they do a lot of work for free. It's understandable they don't want to learn a packaging system they don't use.

[timconsidine]

@girish True, especially about authors being inundated .... although I suspect that them saying "it's targeted at development" is usually cop-out for something like :

• "I'm a developer, don't expect me to finish things completely, it works here"

• "I'm a developer, don't expect me to write documentation, it's obvious if you read the code"

• "I'm a developer, I develop things, I moved on to something else"

I'm not being rude (well, not intentionally). It's just my experience of running software projects and a software house for 15 years. Love developers, awesome people, wish I could do what they do, but <guesstimate> 70% fall in one of the above categories.

[robi]

@ianhyzy said in OhMyForm:

@robi this is normal! please be nice to open source devs, they do a lot of work for free. It's understandable they don't want to learn a packaging system they don't use.

How am I not being nice?

[robi]

Has anyone looked at getting this packaged?

Something has come up that would make this very useful right now.

[jdaviescoates]

@robi I think the idea was to wait for 1.0. My plan was to mention the app dev group once that happens

[jdaviescoates]

Currently 4 issues away from 1.0

https://github.com/ohmyform/ohmyform/milestone/4

[robi]

Now is a time I could really use a self hosted form app, so this came up again.

Has anyone managed to package this, even in unofficial form?

@atridad ?

[LoudLemur]

Form building is very useful. There is some form building integrated into Odoo and its fork, Flectra. Both of these applications have been requested:

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1403/flectra-erp-and-cms-an-open-source-alternative-do-odoo/11

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1403/flectra-erp-and-cms-an-open-source-alternative-do-odoo/11

Odoo/Flectra integrate the form building for recruitment into other modules, for example ones related to recruitment or contacts.

[marcusquinn]

@robi Think your options here right now are Wordpress or Lime Survey.

[timconsidine]

@robi : I tried it out on Caprover, but it failed to install correctly.

[jdaviescoates]

@marcusquinn said in OhMyForm:

@robi Think your options here right now are Wordpress or Lime Survey.

Or Nextcloud forms

[msbt]

they finally pushed v1.0.0 2 days ago, but their focus shifted to a docker-only deployment, not sure if this is going to fly with cloudron

[girish]

@msbt doesn't look like https://github.com/ohmyform/ohmyform/blob/master/Dockerfile is hard to adapt to Cloudron, no?

[msbt]

@girish hah indeed, I only checked out http://ohmyform.com/docs/install/ and the corresponding dockerfiles in their ui/api repos, hopefully you're right, have to check again

[jdaviescoates]

1.0.3 came out a couple of weeks ago:
https://github.com/ohmyform/ohmyform/releases/tag/1.0.3

There is also a demo here:
https://omf-demo.herokuapp.com/

Although it doesn't seem to actually work for me, perhaps because it's still running 1.0.0-alpha

Also spotted these docker examples:
https://github.com/ohmyform/ohmyform/tree/master/examples

Oh and these on Docker Hub:
https://hub.docker.com/u/ohmyform

[girish]

@jdaviescoates said in OhMyForm:

Although it doesn't seem to actually work for me, perhaps because it's still running 1.0.0-alpha

I tried the demo now but hardly anything seems to work on it.

[robi]

@girish said in OhMyForm:

@jdaviescoates said in OhMyForm:

Although it doesn't seem to actually work for me, perhaps because it's still running 1.0.0-alpha

I tried the demo now but hardly anything seems to work on it.

If only there was an easy way to try out the docker container.

[girish]

@robi I just tried in a separate VPS.

From what I can tell, it lacks some basic things: you cannot reorder the form fields. The UI also has some strange refresh issues (deleting form does not reflect the list). We should probably wait for this one to mature a bit more.

Is anyone else using this outside Cloudron already?

[timconsidine]

@girish said in OhMyForm:

Is anyone else using this outside Cloudron already?

I tried this on CapRover but couldn't get it working.
Maybe bad packaging there.
I will try to give it another go.

[girish]

@timconsidine said in OhMyForm:

I tried this on CapRover but couldn't get it working.

Note that the one on caprover seems to have quite an old image (pre-1.0).