CFv4 Tutorials

How can I add a User to a User Group?

Published on Aug 6, 2013 05:50

In Joomla! 2.5 there is a new more flexible User Group structure. To make use of this you need to add Users to UserGroups. In ChronoForms you can do this using a Custom Code action with the code in this FAQ.

How can I create a Joomla! Registration?

Published on Jul 5, 2013 04:36

ChronoForms has good support for registering users in ChronoForms and in Community Builder (CB) using the Joomla! Registration action

How can I create a PDF including form results?

Published on Jun 17, 2013 09:46

If you need a more permanent record of the form submission than an email or a database entry then creating a PDF can be useful. There is a 'beta' version of a PDF action for ChronoForms created by a user that will let you do this.

How can I send form data to SalesForce?

Published on Jun 17, 2013 07:41

SalesForce is a widely used Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) typically used for tracking and following up on customer leads. If you use SalesForce then it can be useful to be able to send data from a ChronoForm directly to SalesForce where it can be included into your tracking system. This FAQ describes how to set up a simple contact form transfer.

How can I send form results to AWeber?

Published on Jun 14, 2013 07:09

AWeber is a popular Email Messaging service; if you use it then it can be helpful to subscribe users directly from forms on your site. This tutorial outlines one way to do this from ChronoForms v4.

How can I link a form to 37Signals Basecamp?

Published on Apr 24, 2013 06:36

37Signals have a range of project and customer relationship management tools. This FAQ describes how to connect to the new BaseCamp from ChronoForms. The example is simple but can be extended to the other interface methods offered and probably to the other 37 Signals tools.

How can I send form data to vTiger?

Published on Apr 13, 2013 10:26

This FAQ is an example of sending data to a remote application. In this case it is the vTiger CRM but you can use similar methods to link to other remote applications.

How can I build a 'Constant Contact' sign-up form?

Published on Feb 26, 2013 10:53

Constant Contact is a widely email list manager. It offers several ways of adding 'sign-up' forms to your site but most of these involve using code hosted by Constant Contact. There is a developer API but it's isn't straightforward to work out how to apply it to a ChronoForm. This FAQ describes how to build a simple sign-up form in ChronoForms:

How to load one row from a DB table into your form

Published on Nov 23, 2012 05:54

In the last tutorial we created a form which saves some form data into a database table, but what if we want to load record data from that table into our form? Let's see how this can be done:

How do I build a first form?

Published on Oct 10, 2012 05:42

Here is a short video tutorial on creating a form using the ChronoForms Wizard.

How do I install ChronoForms?

Published on Oct 10, 2012 05:41

Here is a simple video tutorial on installing ChronoForms in Joomla! 2.5.

How to post information from a Chronoform to ZoHo

Published on Oct 10, 2012 05:40

This FAQ is taken from a forum post by lowrykun.

I looked in the forum and didn't see a working example of how to post information from a Chronoform to ZoHo. I came up with a really simple way of doing it using the new Authentication Token.

How can I verify an Email Address?

Published on Oct 8, 2012 05:34

It is often useful to check that a user's email address is valid before sending emails, accepting membership or doing business with them. There are two possible problems, there may be an error in the email itself or someone may have entered another person's email in the form. To check we can send an email to the address asking the user to reply - by clicking a link in the email - if they want to confirm their address.

Can I use ChronoForms with SobiPro?

Published on Oct 7, 2012 13:28

Here a tutorial written by user hcharris: "The following instructions will guide you through integrating Chronoforms and SobiPro to send e-mail to an address in SobiPro using Chronoforms".

How can I add a Print button to my form?

Published on Oct 7, 2012 12:38

The Joomla! Print button is a convenient way to print out articles. Unfortunately it doesn't print out the contents of any form embedded in an article and so isn't very useful for ChronoForms.

Here is one alternative way of allowing users to print out the results of a form submission.

Are there any video tutorials?

Published on Jul 2, 2012 08:14

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CFv4 Tutorials