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Hidden field for back office use after submission - d7ennis - Jan 20th, 2015
Does the form tool allow for ‘hidden’ fields – (‘hidden’ meaning that the field is not displayed for user input, but available for ‘internal use’ on login)? For example a field where the office could flag the submitted form with a status like Completed, Hold, Duplicate, Invalid Address, Picked up, Name mismatch etc… (I am using Formtools 2.2.6)
RE: Hidden field for back office use after submission - alexh - Jan 20th, 2015
Absolutely. Just build your html form without that field. I use this all the time for similar purposes.
Alex
RE: Hidden field for back office use after submission - Hellas - Feb 13th, 2015
I'm trying to do this already for a couple of days ... Could you explain how to do this?
Thnx!
RE: Hidden field for back office use after submission - alexh - Feb 18th, 2015
Check out the documentation here on adding form fields:
http://formtools.github.io/docs/userdoc/form_management/adding_form_fields/
..."Edit your form and go to the Fields tab. There, at the bottom right of the page, click the Add Fields button. That will automatically insert those new fields at the appropriate spot in your form (i.e. wherever you specified)." Just remember to go to the view that you are using and add that field to the view. Otherwise the new field will be there and you won't be able to see it.
I have found that sometimes I need to set that field to a default value. For instance I have a form that when the form is submitted, I go to into FormTools and use radio fields to select "approved", "rejected", etc. Because I want it to default to "Not approved", I put a hidden field in my form that sends "Not approved" to FormTools for that field. Then, when I go in to it on the back end I selected "approved".
Alex
(Feb 13th, 2015, 9:21 AM)Hellas Wrote: I'm trying to do this already for a couple of days ... Could you explain how to do this?
Thnx!