ChronoForms v5

If your form looks OK - but when you click the submit button nothing appears to happen, or the page reloads but no email is sent and/or no record is saved in a database table then it's possible that there is a problem with the form Action URL and it is not submitting to ChronoForms. This FAQ suggests some ways to check what is happening and solve the problem.

Sometimes it is useful to be able to use other Joomla! extensions with ChronoForms. This is often - but not always - possible to do.

The standard File Field element in the CFV5 Designer tab allows the user to select a single file. This FAQ tells you how to configure the element and the other form settings to allow more that one file to be selected and uploaded at the same time.

Some forms take a little time to submit, particularly if there are files to be uploaded. This FAQ shows you a way to show a 'loading' image and/or a message to remind the user to wait. 

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.

ChronoForms v5 comes with a Signature Widget that you can use to add signature capture to your forms.

The TCPDF action allows you to create a PDF including the results submitted from the form in a similar way to creating a form email.

Modal windows or lightboxes are useful for showing extra information or popup forms. This FAQ shows a way to get the Joomla! modal window to work from a ChronoForm; and how to use a third-party Modal plug-in.

This FAQ looks at one way to use a ChronoForm to take product data from a database table and display it in rows with a 'quantity' input box so that it is the first step in a mini shop.

A user wanted to be able to add a 'Select All' option to a checkbox group in ChronoForms v5. The idea was that when this checkbox is clicked all the others in the group are checked. Here is a short jQuery solution for this.

A client wanted a time-picker in a CFv5 form. The ChronoForms v5 date-picker doesn't have this built in, but you can use the jQuery datepicker instead and add a time-picker to that.

The question came from a user who was building a form to create a series of entries. They wanted to re-load the form after it was submitted to add another set of entries. By default ChronoForms v5 re-loads the form and displays the last set of entries. Here are two possible solutions.

ChronoForms v5 has added a new Multiplier Container option that lets you set up a group of elements with a 'Plus' button that lets the user add an extra copy of the group into the form. This FAQ explains some of the ways to use it.

A user wanted to style their form so that there were horizontal bands to distinguish the form inputs. Here's one solution with a few lines of CSS.

Users will often use  'easy' to remember passwords that may not be very secure. This FAQ shows you how to add a strength 'meter' to a Password input in CFv5.

ChronoForms v5 adds an asterisk after the Label for required inputs and shows a red tooltip when a client-side validation error is found. This FAQ show show you can change the way these look.

File input elements in forms are normally formatted by the user's browser, not by ChronoForms. There are though many ways of changing the defualt layout using CSS and JavaScript. This FAQ looks at using a few examples of these methods in CFv5.

Here is a very simple method to add a color picker to a text input in ChronoForms v5. This was contributed by user Surgit.