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WHERE is the URL for the Form I just created?? - oakleaf101 - Jul 11th, 2015
WHERE is the URL for the Form I just created??
I created a form with the form builder, hit 'publish', and it confirmed success, and even sent me an email confirming it. BUT, it nowhere says whee the form is??? How can I or anyone ever use a form if we have no idea what its ulr address is?? In the admin, I can see its submissions listed, which of course are '0', because neither I nor anyone else can ever get to it.
I'd like to use formtools to create forms so that I or my clients can enter certain types of data into a db, and and later go back and view or edit it. Is this not possible with formtools? (And if not, what then I don't understand the purpose of formtools??)
--2nd question: In the form builder there is a column checkbox called 'Pass On', but no mention of what in the world this is, and a search of the formtools site and documentation revealed nothing. I've used a lot of databases before, but never encountered a 'pass on'. It's a 2nd password? ??
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RE: WHERE is the URL for the Form I just created?? - chalorlay - Jul 14th, 2015
1st Question (this is my opinion)
Formtool is a tool to create a flat file SQL table so that you do not have to issue SQL command to perform tasks. As a bonus, you have a very simple form within Formtool for you to enter data (you'll be needing a view or allow data to be deleted or edited in order to do so). There's also API to roll your own solution using Formtool.
If you want a fancy form (with all the bells and whistles of UI/UX and client side validation), I'd suggest you create your own HTML form (noob like me, I use free online form generator and point that form to my Formtool form). My experience, I always create my own form and point to Formtool URL process.php. Then I create a form in Formtool and in creating the new form I use External Form. From that point, I just follow the Formtool instruction.
2nd Question
I used pass-on flag so that the value of the field will be passed on to the Redirect URL of each successful submission. eg. My Redirect URL is thankyou.php and I have a field called "name" in the form that is marked as pass-on. In my thankyou.php, I read the value of "name" and display it in the html, eg. Thank you "John" for the info.