Hi all, since Joomla 3.5 you can now disable the cache for specific pages inside the Joomla cache plugin.

lfj wrote:
Could you post the code u made as an example?

I tried to use the page cache and disabled the contact pages... but didn't work...
Anyone?

This has suddenly become a major problem for me. I manage several sites with this extension installed and this wasn't a problem in the past. Now, clients are complaining that their forms placed in articles are no longer working. The suggested cache setting work-arounds do not work for me.

We're having the same issue with the latest version of RSform. When caching is enabled the forms don't work.

Never had any problems with this before, and caching have worked pefectly untill now.

Anyone else having issues?

This came up as an issue again recently. Apparently forms embedded in articles will no longer work, period. I've had to reconfigure the menu item as an RSForm menu item and put any explanatory/introductory text in the form itself. This was the instruction I received from the developer. Would be nice if this would be fixed, though.

We encounter the problem as well since (I think) RSForm Pro 2.0.15. It looks like it's not in the system or content plugin, since their last update is months ago.
Hope this can be solved real quick, because otherwise we have to check all websites of our customers and disable the cache

It´s a shame that this issue isn´t corrected yet! Thinking seriously in not using RSForms anymore.

It's a real issue, clients are more savvy about SEO and google rankings, they're be testing sites performance. We have created a site with 13 forms using modules.

We will now need to recreate these pages using the menu items to make this work.

Joomla caching is an out of the box requirement!

I just encountered this again. The form seemed to work from the users POV, but there was no Thank You message, and the message was not saved in the DB. This is really bad and I wish someone from RSForm would come in and comment on the issue again. I will not use RSForm for any new sites, for the time being.

Did you get this issue corrected? We worked around it by several ways. We swapped out the built in Joomla cache system and replaced it with Jotcache. In Jotcache we configured the exclusion for com_rsform in the "Exclude URL" section of the Jotcache component. Under the "Exclude Location" section we excluded any module position in which we used an Rsform. Finally, since we use Sucuri we configured a "nocache" URL suffix and for every thank you page we just append the ?nocache to the existing URL of the thank you page set for each RsForm.

Any updates or workaround for this issue. I actually turned on cache for all my client sites last week and just found out this week through one of my clients that all forms are broken from the cache issue. I am going to turn off cache but really would prefer to have it enabled somehow. Thanks so much

@41global, which cache method do you use? There is the general Joomla cache, pagecache (also Joomla) or an extension for example.

Hi, recently spent a half a day on this. I found the CacheControl solved the problem by adding the URL parameters in the plugins exclude URL box.

If you want to target a specific category you can use:
catid={number}
e.g:
catid=17

We have used this for SP Page Builder pages, Articles and Blog Categories.

option=com_content&view=category&layout=voci:blogvoci&id=17
option=com_sppagebuilder&view=page&id=222

extensions.joomla.org/extension/core-enh...rmance/cachecontrol/

Use CacheControl and target a category by its ID:

If you want to target a specific category you can use:
catid={number}
e.g:
catid=17

extensions.joomla.org/extension/core-enh...rmance/cachecontrol/

Use CacheControl and target a category by its ID:

If you want to target a specific category you can use:
catid={number}
e.g:
catid=17

extensions.joomla.org/extension/core-enh...rmance/cachecontrol/

lausianne wrote:

It was the general joomla cache that I enabled but disabled after seeing it broke the forms.

Yes this is a major issue. Any update on a fix inside RSForm?

Any solution, please.

"11 years 3 months ago"

This bug is so old, it should get a memorial, a true veteran of a bug ...

I just had to switch off caching on a client site because of this. Fortunately I remembered this issue. Interestingly, forms seem to have worked just fine for several months on this site, and only today it broke. What's going on?

I think the only way of this working is to try the iframe which I will plan on doing during the lockdown

If you use the Joomla plugin Page Cache you can exclude the menu item where the form is active. An external cache extension like JotCache gives you more options to control. And also has an option to exclude components, so you can use forms everywhere.

Would jotcache exclude rsform modules?

Jotcache can exclude modules indeed, as mentioned on their website:
www.jotcomponents.net/home/web-programmi...-embedded-in-article
kbase.jotcomponents.net/jotcache/help/v40/exclusion

But a better solution: for excluding modules you don't need JotCache as it's one of the great features in Joomla. Open a module, go to the tab Advanced and change te option Caching to No Caching.

Didn´t works for me.
This is so annoying that i have now decided to gradually replace all rsforms on all my websites.

Are there still the same cache problems with Joomla 4? Somebody knows it?

Yes i have the same problem with Joomla 4!

me too, so i can´t use rsforms anymore.

Same here with LiteSpeed Cache.

I played for at least one hour with different settings/options (including completely excluding it), but the submission doesn't work (no errors in console, just a page reload).

LiteSpeed web server is likely the 3rd most used in the world and growing.

Hi, I tried the iframe solution given by HeliFly and it did worked with few amendments according to my requirements. I load the form in an iframe and add that iframe in custom html module and positioned it to my template position. I am using Nitropack services and it cache the full page so using module with cache disable or loadposition didn't work. But Iframe method worked.

To redirect the user to thankyou page once form submitted I have added a tag, target="_parent" in Rsform Properties - Form attributes - Additional html attributes

Hello guys.
I've been following this problem for quite some time.
I got today a perfect solution with caching performance with JCH 7.3.0
In this version the site loads super fast and the RSForms forms work perfectly.
Here are the prints of the configuration that worked for me.
Joomla + Yootheme Builder + JCHOptimize;
drive.google.com/file/d/1dEbRaTP6d5XuLrAV0T2Xr_nDtXUgOdvr/edit
drive.google.com/file/d/1_bSu5utKjUsIJl2UHRWJCdXkR3GdrJGF/edit
drive.google.com/file/d/1WXcm-JbP71Sc-bCpXRDy9pJgt8OZDPpQ
drive.google.com/file/d/1VzrcF6EACIYQd5NPOVRoHeoSkEn7Hyjw

I have been fighting this for years. I just wrote a plugin that let's you turn off cache on individual modules.

Just click the green "code" button and select "download zip" to get an installable plugin...

github.com/interGen/Joomla-Module-No-Cache

Or I could save the headache of creating a plugin and use the "No caching" feature that is part of Joomla 4 in the "Advanced" tab...

It is still not working. Caching is not possible. What a shame for RSForm!!!!!!