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Hi,

I have been working out how to use Chronoforms (and Joomla to be honest) in order to create a web site for a dog rescue organisation. I have all the basic 'stuff' in place, and want to make use of Chronoforms to allow 'easy' addition (and editing) of dog details.

I have a form (createdog) in place to allow the 'creation' of a dog record - name, age, coat-type, etc, etc - and details. The 'details' field is a 'longtext' field, the others are either simple text, picklists, or radio buttons. (I have not managed to get editing to work at all 😢 )

I have a second form defined (AdoptionDog) which is used to display the details purely as a 'read only' html page - this was done by enabling the profile plugin.

Finally I have two Connections Management 'views' of the data 'Adoption Dogs' and 'Sponsor Dogs', and the dog name is used to provide the link for the 'drill down' to the actual page itself, like so:

<a href='http://localhost/joomla/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=AdoptionDog&dogid={cf_id}'>{dog_name}</a>

This works well up to a point. I wanted to include in the details section of the form some of the 'functionality' that I have with articles...

1) 'Chapter' type page breaks - <hr title="Update 31st January 2008" alt="Update 31st January 2008" class="system-pagebreak" />
2) 'Slimbox' type image functionality - {slimbox images/2008/03/lassie.jpg... ... ...

I have enabled 'mambots' on the adoptiondog form, but I just get a basic error even before trying to add these constructs to the details.

Before I expend any more time on this - can anyone tell me if they have managed to get these things working on a 'chronoform' ? Or am I approaching this from the wrong direction ? I MAY be pushing the thing a little too hard.

Thanks for reading.

Brian.

Hi Brian,

So you are using Connectivity too ? I couldn't get all what you need because its too late here, but a new version of Connectivity will come out in the next 20 hours or so and will have edit/delete/add features for frontend users as well as admins, I suggest you wait for this one!

Regards
Max

Thanks Max,

Will wait (with baited breath 😀 ) for the new version, and will work on explaining what I'm doing in a more concise way.

But basically, I'm using the form to create content - I suppose like the 'stories' section of your demo web site - and I want to get stuff like {slimbox... to work on a chronoform.

cheers,

Brian

Hi Brian,

Slimbox ???

Max

Hi Max,

Here is an example syntax for slimbox (assuming that you have the pictures uploaded etc etc etc...)

{slimbox single images/adoptiondogs/2008/neverbite.jpg, images/adoptiondogs/2008/thumb/neverbite.jpg, Never Bite...?;images/adoptiondogs/2008/walkingollie.jpg, images/adoptiondogs/2008/thumb/walkingollie.jpg, Walking Ollie?;images/adoptiondogs/2008/houselurcher.jpg, images/adoptiondogs/2008/thumb/houselurcher.jpg, House Lurcher?}

And what it does when you say 'single' is, it displays the thumbnail of the first image inline with the article text, you click on the thumbnail, and the full size image opens up. You can then click 'left and right' to go through the 'slideshow' of images.

I got it from here:

http://www.digitalia.be/software/slimbox

cheers,

Brian

Thanks for the clarification, new Connectivity is out, try it and let me know any questions in the Connectivity forums please!

Regards
Max