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Member | tracedef posts 43 5:33 am April 28, 2009
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We have a static website we are moving to WP and need to move a four page dynamic applicaiton to cforms. There are 3 different apps, one for refinancing, debt consolidation and home purchaes. example in static non-WP website: http://www.ipagio.com/blue1/mo…..ncing.html
Is this possible in cforms or are we asking for trouble due to the length of the form? If so, does anyone know anyone they can point us to that we can hire to help us build this? I use and configure basic cforms contact forms with no issues, but this is a bit more than I have experience with….
Any feedback appreciated!
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| Oliver Munich, Germany posts 6237 6:53 am April 28, 2009
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Except for the dynamically popping up "OK to estimate" it's all possible and looks like a concatenation of individual forms.
Please use the forum search on "muti page" or "multi part" forms, together with the Help page that comes with cforms it should be easy to setup.
PS: Size wise, I've seen multi-part forms with around 12 pages each containing forms with more than 30 fields.
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Member | tracedef posts 43 8:14 am May 8, 2009
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Thanks Oliver.
Creating the forms isn't so hard, but after each page of the form is submitted I still get the success message even though I haven't reached the end of the form… Is the correct way to fix this to use CSS to "display:none" the id (#usermessage3a) for specific success message?
example: http://tinyurl.com/ocmv52" href="http://tinyurl.com/ocmv52">http://tinyurl.com/ocmv52
Also: If page one of my 3 page form is in the sidebar (see link above), how do I make it so that upon submission of page 1, the form redirects to a new page where pages 2 and 3 of the form are not in the sidebar but in the middle of the page? Example: http://tinyurl.com/qv7dvk" href="http://tinyurl.com/qv7dvk">http://tinyurl.com/qv7dvk ….. I would need to carry the values from page one of form for formpages 2 and 3 in the new destination page.
Any feedback appreciated!
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Member | tracedef posts 43 8:25 am May 8, 2009
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Not sure why links were weird above, here is link for one in sidebar that redirects to a new page where the rest of the form is continued …
http://www.ipagio.com/blue1/ba…..osure.html
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| Oliver Munich, Germany posts 6237 7:50 am May 9, 2009
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you can (re)use the success message to indicate what is coming next or simply to feedback some info to the user, or you can use CSS to hide it (like you guessed):
e.g. #usermessage2a {…} etc.
Also: If page one of my 3 page form is in the sidebar (see link above), how do I make it so that upon submission of page 1, the form redirects to a new page where pages 2 and 3 of the form are not in the sidebar but in the middle of the page?
not sure if this will work as I've never tried, but if
- form #1 is a multi page form and
- you have form #1 in your sidebar pointing (alternative action target) to a new page)
- then on "new page" you have again form #1 inserted to pick up the session and present form #2 (2nd in the line of multi-page forms)
it could work.
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Member | tracedef posts 43 9:25 am May 10, 2009
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Oliver,
Thanks, I will give it a shot!
T
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Member | tracedef posts 43 6:32 am May 12, 2009
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Oliver,
I was able to get it to work with one small issue. Page one of sidebar form redirects when "Redirect: nable alternative success page (redirect)" is checked and the form picks up on new redirect page at page 2 of the form and continues there till the form's end. (enabling alternative form action would cause page 1's data to not be included upon form completion)
One small issue, if there are 3 pages to the form, an email is sent for completion of each page. So I get an email for the contents of page 1 when it is submitted, page 2 when it is submitted and then a third email upon completion of page 3 with the info from all three pages.
If I check off "Suppress admin email and DB tracking for *this* form" on page 1 for the form to prevent the email / tracking entry from being sent upon completion, it breaks the "alternative success page (redirect)" and the form will no longer redirect from page 1 to the intended new page that the from should be going to to continue page 2 of the form ….
Any ideas on how I can prevent each page of the form from sending a confirmation email and entering into the tracking database without breaking the redirect that should occur when page 1 of the form is submitted ?
Thanks!!
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Member | tracedef posts 43 7:58 am May 12, 2009
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Oliver,
Cforms never ceases to amaze me. I realized that instead of checking "suppress admin email and db tracking" under the multi page form section, I can simply check "turn off admin email" and "exclude from db tracking" under the Core Form Admin section…. awesome! Wow!
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