Chronoforms v7 basic connection

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different_greyhead 27 Oct, 2020

Hi,

Ive been using Chrono forms and connectivity since the release of v4 but can not seem to get a basic table listing for "type" "connectivity form" in V7.

I have managed to get the data to pull and can see it in the debug but all I get are the headers with no data when I view it. Interesting, I get an empty row for each column. I have nothing under pages-->content and have tried placing {fn:configs} followed by {view:list} in there but get the same results as leaving it blank.(List is called list and data read is called configs)

Is there a document or video that explains this as it seems quite different from previous releases?

Thank you in advance for any assistance you can offer.

Max_admin 28 Oct, 2020

Please post a screenshot of what you have in the Repo section and of your Read Data settings!

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different_greyhead 28 Oct, 2020

Thanks for responding Max. Sorry, I tried to follow up my post but was unable to as the forums prohibited it until you published my post.

I was able to get a little further by placing a custom HTML under each field in my list and inserting {var:model.field_name} within it. Now my field populate but my row reapeats by the number of columns. See ss's below. How can I get the edit records link, is this more in the custom html?

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You guys do great work and I have to say I have enjoyed watching your product evolve over the years. Thanks Max and Greyhead

Aaron

Max_admin 02 Nov, 2020

Please check the video below and let me know if you still have more questions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raXqQcU_OB8&list=PLNdPw6Bog3zcuSKs7NGNi8QPtfj5IsxQA&index=10

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different_greyhead 02 Nov, 2020

Hi Max,

Great work! Thank you, the video definitely helped. I should mention part of my problem was the first record selection on the DB read. Once I changed it to all records. I got the desired result.

If its not too much trouble..........
I have a form that can be used to edit records in this table. How can I make the items in the listing call this form when clicked and return to the listing after saving the updated record from the edit form?

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Thank you in advance for any assistance you can offer.

Regards,
Aaron

Max_admin 03 Nov, 2020

Hi Aaron,

A video will be better to explain this but here is a quick how to:

create your form fields inside a "Container" area, then create a new page group, add 2 pages inside the page group, in the first page call your container area, in the 2nd page you will need to call a Save Data, which should have a Redirect inside the "success" event
Use a text node in your table column and enable the link behavior, in the link behavior settings set the page to the first form page created in step 1

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different_greyhead 05 Nov, 2020

Answer

Hi Max,

Thanks for the quick how to.

I had difficulty getting the text node link to work in the table list on the first page. This is how I configured the text node to get it to work.

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Regards,
Aaron