Mar 19th, 2009, 3:14 PM
Hey Tony,
Form Tools tries to be "smart" and only store identical field option groups once. So if you have, say, 10 forms, each of which contains one more radio button groups with the values "yes" and "no", it will only store that combination ("yes"/"no") once - the very first time it was found. When you add a form, before creating the new field option group it checks all existing ones to find a duplicate. If it isn't found it adds it, otherwise it just assigns that new field to the existing field option group ID.
So when deleting a field option group it won't let you delete it without updating all fields that have been assigned to it first, to make them assigned to ANOTHER field option group (or change them to a textbox or something). The second "Form Fields (X)" tab on the Edit Field Option Group page lists
all the fields associated with the tab.
Regarding your first problem, is it concerning step 4 of the Add Form process, or the edit field options page? The DHTML code for figuring out the field types works differently depending on where the site is located. If it's on the same website it's no problem - it just parses the fields with JS. But if it's located on another website, there's some backend trickery to download the webpage content locally to allow the JS to parse the document. In most cases you don't have to know about it since it's done behind the scenes, but in some cases the server doesn't have the functionality to scrape the webpage - in that case it should prompt you to manually upload the files.
Any help...?
- Ben
Form Tools tries to be "smart" and only store identical field option groups once. So if you have, say, 10 forms, each of which contains one more radio button groups with the values "yes" and "no", it will only store that combination ("yes"/"no") once - the very first time it was found. When you add a form, before creating the new field option group it checks all existing ones to find a duplicate. If it isn't found it adds it, otherwise it just assigns that new field to the existing field option group ID.
So when deleting a field option group it won't let you delete it without updating all fields that have been assigned to it first, to make them assigned to ANOTHER field option group (or change them to a textbox or something). The second "Form Fields (X)" tab on the Edit Field Option Group page lists
all the fields associated with the tab.
Regarding your first problem, is it concerning step 4 of the Add Form process, or the edit field options page? The DHTML code for figuring out the field types works differently depending on where the site is located. If it's on the same website it's no problem - it just parses the fields with JS. But if it's located on another website, there's some backend trickery to download the webpage content locally to allow the JS to parse the document. In most cases you don't have to know about it since it's done behind the scenes, but in some cases the server doesn't have the functionality to scrape the webpage - in that case it should prompt you to manually upload the files.
Any help...?
- Ben