One of the uses of a multi-page form is to be able to show different pages to the user depending on their previous answers. You might want to skip a page, or show an alternative page. This FAQ shows a way to do that using an Event Switcher action.
In this FAQ we'll show how to do this with a very simple form. The same method can be extended to more complex forms. For the example we'll have a form with three pages
On the Designer tab
Drag in three Container elements from the Advanced group and set each of them to Type Page.
+ In the first container add a Radio Box element and a Submit Button
+ Configure the Radio Box with the name page_switch and with two Options like this:
page_2=Go to Page 2 page_3=Go to Page 3
and set the Checked Value to page_2 (this just makes sure that the Radio Box always submits a value).
+ In the other two Page Containers add a Custom Action with some text e.g. 'This is page 2' and 'This is page 3'
On the Setup tab
+ As well as the On Load event we'll need two other new events called page_2 and page_3
+ Add an HTML (Render form) action to the On Load event.
+ Do the same with the On page_2 and On page_3 events but edit the HTML (Render form) action to set the Page to 2 and 3 respectively.
+ In the On Submit event add an Event Switcher action. In the settings set The Events to page_2,page_3; then Save and Close the action. Open it again and click on Load Events, then Save and Close again and you should see two new events in the action: On page_2 and On page_3
+ Drag an Event Loop action into each of these and set their Event Names to page_2 and page_3. So the On page_2 Event Loop points to the page_2 event.
+ Open the Event Switcher action settings again and add this code to the Code box. This just says that if the Radio Box is set to page_2 then switch to the page_2 event.
<?php
switch ($form->data['page_switch'] ) {
case 'page_2':
default:
return 'page_2';
break;
case 'page_3':
return 'page_3';
break;
}
?>
Save and Close the action; Save the form and Test. You should find that when you select the Page 2 radio button and submit you are shown Page 2 and whe you select Page 3 you are shown Page 3.
Note: this is a simple example to deomstrate how this works, in practice you would have more form elements, possibly more pages and more complex logic for the switiching. If you are building a form like this it is best to create the logic with the simplest possible form, get that working correctly then add more elements to the form.
