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Technically, RFE Forms is a React component that requires the following properties(props):

Mapping Controls

Fields are mapped to their controls via a registry system. This is highly extensible and easy to override the default controls.

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The field above has the rendering of type checkbox, the engine will simply check the registry for this kind of control and instantiates an instance of this control.

Submission Handlers

These handle submission at the field level. The engine doesn’t know how fields aggregate or compose primitive values into objects that the backend expects ie. an Observation. The form engine by default defines a set of base handlers eg. ObsSubmissionHandler, EncounterLocationSubmissionHandler etc.

These are also mapped using the registry system based on the type property of a form field. On form submission, the engine simply collects all field submissions and aggregates them into some object that OpenMRS understands.

Extending the Registry

The engine exposes an API to work with the registry.

  • addHandler(handler: HandlerRegistryItem) Adds submission handler to the handlers registry

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    languagejson
    import { SomeCustomHandler } from "./handlers";
    import { addHandler } from "openmrs-ohri-form-engine-lib";
     
    // Add to registry
    addHandler({
      id: "customHandler",
      component: SomeCustomHandler,
      type: "someCustomType",
    });
  • addvalidator(validator: ValidatorRegistryItem)

    Adds validator to the validators registry

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    languagejson
    import { SomeCustomValidator } from "./validators";
    import { addvalidator } from "openmrs-ohri-form-engine-lib";
     
    // Add to registry
    addvalidator({
      id: "customValidator",
      component: SomeCustomValidator,
      type: "customValidatorType",
    });
  • addFieldComponent(control: ControlRegistryItem)

    Adds custom control to the field controls registry

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    languagejson
    import { BootstrapDropdown } from "./controls";
    import { addFieldComponent } from "openmrs-ohri-form-engine-lib";
     
    // Add to registry
    addFieldComponent({
      id: "bootstrapDropdown",
      component: BootstrapDropdown,
      type: "bootstrapDropdownType",
    });

Post Submission Actions

The form-engine supports post-submission actions. A post action is a JS class or function that implements this interface. This functional interface requires implementing the applyAction(formSession, config) function which has the form session context plus an adhoc config. The config makes the actions more generic and configurable hence the ability of reusing the same action for different use-cases.

How do we register an action?

The engine utilises the registerPostSubmissionActionfunction to register a post submission action.

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languagejson
  "availableIntents": [
    {
      "intent": "*",
      "display": "Labour & Delivery Form"
    }
  ],
  "processor": "EncounterFormProcessor",
  "uuid": "1e5614d6-5306-11e6-beb8-9e71128cae77",
  "referencedForms": [],
  "encounterType": "6dc5308d-27c9-4d49-b16f-2c5e3c759757",
  "postSubmissionActions": [
    "MotherToChildLinkageSubmissionAction",
    "ArtSubmissionAction"
  ],
  "allowUnspecifiedAll": true,
  "formOptions": {
    "usePreviousValueDisabled": "true"
  }

Program Enrolment

The ProgramEnrollmentSubmissionAction is a generic post submission action that automatically enrols a patient to a specified program upon successful submission of an enncounter. This is passed through the form JSON and the action can either be enabled or disabled based on the expression passed as the enabled flag. Below is an example of TB Program enrolment in the TB Case enrolment Form.

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