Hi,
I have to make a big form using tabs. I Need to use 3 single forms that i made yet. So I'm trying to use these made forms getting in each tab of the new big mother form. Although i don't know how to do it. I hope you could help me.
Thanks.
Hello
I need to use the same submit event in order to save all in the same table at the same time. Similar than multipage form but each form inside each tab.
Can I do it using CF 5?
Hi belga77,
You can create a tabbed form in ChronoForms using Containers but I can't think of any easy way of showing an existing form inside a tab like that.
You could use a tab module to show the three forms in tabs but that would make submitting them very messy.
You could use the three forms in sequence one after the other and save the data from each either to the User session or, better, to a database table.
You could rebuild your forms into a single tabbed or multi-page form.
Personally, as you have the forms built I'd probably set them up to sequence one after the other. Basically in the On Submit event of each form you save the data then redirect to the next form on load event.I would use an identifier - a short random string - to make sure that the forms are entered in the right order and the data is saved together.
Bob
Thank's A lot for your answer. Unfortunately the form has to be made using tabs because the user that will use prefers tabs. Since Now I've been using a single form with tabs but the form is very large and sometimos I have problems with the server. Thus many of these forms are similar to other forms used with other customers so it would be very useful if i could use these forms avoiding to repeat it.
If I use a tab module using three tabs with each form inside each tab and using the same table and the same submit button for all of these forms ... Would It work??
Thanks for all .
Hi belga,
Using a tab module with one Submit button probably won't work because there will be three separate sets of <form> tags. You can try turning them off in the forms and adding them manually but that's a messy approach.
You can set up the three separate forms so that they look like tabbed forms if that is what the client likes?
Bob
Hi Mr. GreyHead,
Thank's for your fast reply. What do you mean with "You can set up the three separate forms" ???
Hi belga77,
On each form page add some HTML at the top of the form to look like tabs. You can even add some JavaScript so that when a tab is clicked the current page of the form is submitted and the clicked one displayed.
Bob
Ok maybe I'll have to do It. Thank's' for your answer. I've been thinking that in multipage CF3 I used a "mother" form that was directing which forms you need to load and finaly you can submit all even in the same table. I remember that we had to use a plugin or something like that.
Is It possible using CF5?
Hi belga77,
There is a Load Form action in the Utilities group that will let you load one form from another. I've not really used it - you could test that with some very simple forms to see how it works and if it will let you merge three other forms into a single tabbed form.
You would need to manage the <form> tags carefully but I think that if you add them to the 'parent' form and remove them from the child forms it might work OK.
Bob
Great!!! I will try. Maybe It will work. Thank you very much for your help.