The most common issues and their fix In this chapter you are able to find the most common RSform issues and how to make them workIn some cases when the validation is not correct, the email field gets filled with garbage (something like <script>...). This is caused by the Email Cloaking mambot/plugin that joomla has enabled by default. To fix it, go to Mambots / Plugins and unpublish the Email Cloaking plugin. When creating a checkbox group, a radio group or a selectbox, you need to use a specific syntax inside the default value textbox. Let's assume that you have a checkbox group and want to display 3 cities, Paris, London, Milan. Your syntax should be: Paris|Paris,London|London,Milan|Milan Why the duplicated words? That's because you can set the field to show something to the user, and return something else to you. For instance, if you want your checkbox group to return the country, but show the user the cities, you should use: France|Paris,UK|London,Italy|Milan This way, the user will see Paris, London and Milan, but you'll get France, UK, Italy in the backend, in the thank you message and in the emails. You can also use the {checked} syntax to make some options selected by default: Paris{checked}|Paris,London|London,Milan{checked}|Milan This example will select by default Paris and Milan when the form is initially shown to the user. Radio Groups:
- Go to your Form Editor screen, and click on the form style
- Assuming that your radio field id is "test", add this code to the end of the Form Style code:
<style>.radiotest{float:left;clear:both}</style> Checkbox Groups:
- Go to your Form Editor screen, and click on the form style
- Assuming that your checkbox field id is "test", add this code to the end of the Form Style code:
<style>.checktest{float:left;clear:both}</style> Here's what you should do if you want to create customized links. Let's assume that in your form, you have a dropdown for the city(field id = "city"). The dropdown's default value should look similar to: |Select a city,Paris|Paris,Rome|Rome,London|London. What you can do is to create 3 custom pages Paris.html, Rome.html and London.html. Then, in the return URL field, type http://www.yourwebsite.com/{city}.html The {city} placeholder will be replaced with Paris, Rome or London and the form will be redirected to http://www.yourwebsite.com/Paris.html, http://www.yourwebsite.com/London.html or http://www.yourwebsite.com/Rome.html The Return URL field is optional. If you leave it empty, the form will show the "Thank you message" (if any), and then it will return to it's own screen.Changing the stored date format A common issue is changing the date format. Here's a custom script that you should use on the Scripts called on form process: in order to save the date in your preferred format. Replace "yourcalid" with your calendar field id: if(isset($processform['yourcalid'])){
$date = explode('/',$processform['yourcalid']);
$processform['yourcalid'] = date('d/m/Y',strtotime($date[2].'-'.$date[0].'-'.$date[1]));
} in the date('d/m/Y',...) expression, you could use a different format. Please refer to http://www.php.net/date to see all the recognized date characters. Changing the calendar language To change the calendar labels, you have to edit the file /components/com_forme/ calendar/calendar.js, and around line 900, change the code
MONTHS_SHORT : {key:"months_short", value:["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"]},
MONTHS_LONG: {key:"months_long", value:["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"]},
WEEKDAYS_1CHAR: {key:"weekdays_1char", value:["S", "M", "T", "W", "T", "F", "S"]},
WEEKDAYS_SHORT: {key:"weekdays_short", value:["Su", "Mo", "Tu", "We", "Th", "Fr", "Sa"]},
WEEKDAYS_MEDIUM: {key:"weekdays_medium", value:["Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat"]},
WEEKDAYS_LONG: {key:"weekdays_long", value:["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"]},
If you want to directly check what users have uploaded in your form, you could add a direct link in your e-mail text, to point to the uploaded files. Edit your form, go to the Emails tab, and in the Email text type: http://www.your website here.com/components/com_forme/uploads/{file1} (Assuming that you have created a file upload field, and it's field id is: file1) |
