Questions - If it is possible or not ! please ?

[uaenoob]

Hello People ..

i used form tools since 2006 till now in multiple projects and it helped me a lot, Thanks for FormTools Team.. i registered one year to ask ben few questions.. and he helped me, thank you for the support... i m shocked how rapidly the script is updated and improved.

I came here today to ask other questions but its little bit advanced and i hope i get a good answers.

I need to know if it possible to do the below questions and if it is possible just a brief how, not in details.

Before Questions - The Scenario

1 ) User Register and receives email with ID Username Password

2 ) User login and access the form (Form is 3 phases)

3 ) User Submits FORM #1 - doesn't continue

4 ) Admin receives submission - accept / decline submission

5 ) If Accepted, user receives email - you've been accepted ( if declined email receives you've been declined)

6 ) User login and submits FORM #2 - doesn't continue

7 ) Admin receives submission - accept / decline submission

8 ) If Accepted, user receives email - you've been accepted ( if declined email receives you've been declined)

9 ) User login and see's some result and text - not Form (thats it)

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Now Questions: (Starting with easiest)

1 ) User Registration, ability to change password only

2 ) Only Registered User can access form Which has 3 Phases

3 ) access 3 Phases in a way where the user submits the 1st phase, wont go straight to phase 2, till the admin approves the submission then the user can access phase 2 etc..

4 ) The Forms are little huge, is it possible to save form but not submit ( to continue in other time before submitting )

5 ) Ability to Send emails Automatic for approved / disapproved (Template emails/ ready text)

6 ) Automatic disable registration in a certain day

if theres any other questions i forgot ill add them

Hope everything is clear

Waiting your answers and advises

Thanks in advanced

[vizzaroo]

4 ) The Forms are little huge, is it possible to save form but not submit ( to continue in other time before submitting )

I'm for something like this as well, to have the user transfer the submission to an 'Inbox' that they refer back to at a later date to submit when complete.

[uaenoob]

well looks like no one knows if its possible .. anyway thanx

[Ben]

Hi uaenoob,

Sorry for not responding sooner: I've had my head in the sand trying to complete a new module, and haven't been around the forums much!

Very interesting problem! But yes, I think Form Tools could work in your case.

I'd start off by looking over the Submission Accounts module, and specifically, the "View Override" settings within the module.

Okay, this will take a little explanation. Rather than explain every last detail, I'll just provide a few top level comments that will hopefully give you an idea of how to proceed.

The Submission Accounts module converts a form submission into a simple user account, letting the person who submitted the form return later on and edit the submission information. The way it works is that you specify what View the user sees at any given time. So you could specify a form View that only showed a subset of the fields, like only the password field being editable, or the first page or two of the original form - or everything.

Now, the View Override setting is totally cool. It lets you show *different* Views for each user, depending on what data is in their submission. So in your case, you could tell it to show more information if the admin has approved each step.

The documentation on this feature is a little scanty, but see the bottom of the page here:
http://modules.formtools.org/submission_...e_new_form

I won't fib: you have a fair amount of configuration ahead of you. But from what you described, it sounds very do-able.

Good luck!

- Ben

[uaenoob]

Ben,

Thanks for replying, i appreciate your time..

Thats great to know that its do-able, ill give it a try .. and if i have any further questions..

ill let you know

Thanks for tips

Regards
uaenoob

[vizzaroo]

Hi Ben

Just another question on this module if I may. I have it all installed and working as intended, though is it correct that the module will only show the latest submission or 1 submission sent by the user ?

i.e user john with password field set to john1234 logs in

He has sent 3 submissions but the module reverts to the latest one and no way of browsing through the previous 2. Unless I've overlooked something. ?

EDIT: Just read through the guide (instructions) given and I don't see a plural of submission , so I'm guessing it was only written to work with 1 submission per login. So would the user have to create a different password for each submission to it creates another unique account for each one to view them indiviually or is there anyone to group more than one submission into a login I.E

Submission 1 / password john1234
Submission 2 / password john12345
Submission 3 / password john123456

but would like to view all 3 submissions on

john1234

Cheers

[Ben]

Hi Vizzaroo,

Yes, the module works by mapping a single user to a submission. As soon as we get into one account -> many submissions, it seems more in the realm of client accounts. Know what I mean?

It sounds like what you really need is a new sort of module: one that creates a client account for a submission and can then map forthcoming submissions to that account, based on specific criteria from the form.

How do you want it to work, exactly? In your example, how do you know John has submitted 4 submissions - how are they mapped to one another?

Let me know. If we can sort out the functional details in a general way, this seems like a good idea for a new module.

- Ben