CF8 (8.0.49) — multiple submit buttons + Event Switcher

Hi Max,

I’ve run into a limitation in CF8 (8.0.49).

I have one CF8 form with five submit buttons that must branch server-side logic via Event Switcher.

The clean pattern would be a single shared name (e.g., btn) with distinct value, then switch on {data:btn}.

In CF8, however, a button’s DOM id is derived from its name and can’t be overridden, so using a shared name produces duplicate element IDs and breaks this pattern.

Suggestion

Please allow assigning a custom Button ID (or let the generated id be overridden). That would enable name="btn" + distinct value and direct routing on {data:btn} in Event Switcher without any extra logic. 

Current workaround

I give each button a unique name and set value = name, then add a small PHP step to expose a single switch variable for Event Switcher:

// Detect pressed button → {var:do} used by Event Switcher
$names = ['duplicate_selected','delete_selected','publish_selected','save_selected','save_all'];
$do = '';
foreach ($names as $n) {
  $v = $this->data($n); 
  if ($v !== null && $v !== '') { $do = $n; break; }
}
$this->set('do', $do); 

Cheers, Elita