[JoshuaPrismon]

Originally Posted by jiggy

Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the reply.

As mentioned in my previous post, i have a scenario of the following kind:
In an email message body there would be some content,right-clicking on which will pop-up a form to the user to fill up and then save that information somewhere.

So can you please help me in making me understand how i can achieve this thing through zimlets.Also request you to provide me some references regarding coding zimlets.

Thanks.

As long as you don't care if the form comes from a server, this is pretty trivial. There are two xml files in each zimlet. The config_template.xml defines global properties (such as urls) and the name of the zimlet. the "name of the zimlet".xml file contains what strings to search for.

A config like this would automatically open a floating tooltip window over a string that matched a specific regex to add a form.

<zimlet name="org_technicaldetails_tasks" version="1.0" description="Tasks">

        <contentObject>
        <matchOn>
            <regex attrs="ig">(your regex string here)</regex>
        </matchOn>
        <toolTip>
            <actionUrl target="http://www.myserver.org/tasks/view/" >
                <param name="id">${src.$1}</param>
            </actionUrl>
        </toolTip>
    </contentObject>
</zimlet>

Your regex string is how you specify where the id is. The form (in my case at www.myserver.org/) will pop up inside of a tooltip window.

If you want a full window, instead of wraping it inside of toolTip, wrap it inside of a <canvas>. If you need a form look at <formEditor>.

Hope this helps.