Feb 10th, 2011, 7:01 PM
Hi Hannes,
Yes, this is a known issue - in fact, I was just looking at it last week.
I'd originally planned to solve it by automatically pre-filling all new submissions to contain whatever criteria was specified by the View (e.g. "attendee_type" == "Vendor"), but on closer inspection this wasn't realistic - or even possible. For example, for Views with filters that contain rules with the "!=" and "NOT LIKE" options, the code would need to insert values into those fields to match the criteria - and it would only be possible by using arbitrary strings. Secondly, if you had a View that only showed last year's form submissions, whenever you clicked "Add" - the only way it could possibly add a submission to appear in that View would be if it back-dated the submission date. This is obviously unacceptable!
So instead, I've added a section to all Views that let you specify default criteria for all new submissions added within Form Tools. It's a bit of a shame it was necessary, but it does actually add a little more control: even possibly result in minimizing work overall (e.g. you could set default values for various fields that would normally have to be manually set).
So... you have to wait for 2.1 again, I'm afraid!
- Ben
Yes, this is a known issue - in fact, I was just looking at it last week.
I'd originally planned to solve it by automatically pre-filling all new submissions to contain whatever criteria was specified by the View (e.g. "attendee_type" == "Vendor"), but on closer inspection this wasn't realistic - or even possible. For example, for Views with filters that contain rules with the "!=" and "NOT LIKE" options, the code would need to insert values into those fields to match the criteria - and it would only be possible by using arbitrary strings. Secondly, if you had a View that only showed last year's form submissions, whenever you clicked "Add" - the only way it could possibly add a submission to appear in that View would be if it back-dated the submission date. This is obviously unacceptable!
So instead, I've added a section to all Views that let you specify default criteria for all new submissions added within Form Tools. It's a bit of a shame it was necessary, but it does actually add a little more control: even possibly result in minimizing work overall (e.g. you could set default values for various fields that would normally have to be manually set).
So... you have to wait for 2.1 again, I'm afraid!
- Ben