First of all, great component. I have zero knowledge of creating forms and I have been able to successfully build a form that emails the contents in less than 30 Minutes. Nice.
I do have a question about the confirmation page plugin. I have filled out the form via the wysiwyg and enabled the plugin for this particular form. However, the from just send me to a blank page after submitting.
I'm wondering if I am misinterpreting this function for Redirect URL? Should I just create a article in joomla and use the redirect URL feature to let my users know the form was submitted?
Also, I am also planning on using the email verification plugin. I assume this will send a message to the user asking them to confirm, correct? Is there any documentation available this? Does it require a DB table first?
Sorry if there is already docs for this!
If you simply want to show a page with a 'Thank You' message then a little HTML in the OnSubmit After box will display after the form is submitted.
Or you can use the ReDirect URL to transfer the user to another page (article. home whatever) on your site*.
The Confirmation Page plugin is intended for those forms where you want the user to take a second look and say 'Yes, that's all OK' before committing the results. (At the moment it has some bugs around sending emails so is better avoided unless you really need it.)
Bob
* There are a couple of others ways too that you can redirect and show a message.
The Confirmation Page plugin is intended for those forms where you want the user to take a second look and say 'Yes, that's all OK' before committing the results. (At the moment it has some bugs around sending emails so is better avoided unless you really need it.)
Ahhh... Thanks, Bob!
What about email verification? I am looking for the form to send a email with a url asking the consumer to verify the email. Much like the joomla activation or PHPBB3 activation. Is this the intended use of the email verification plugin? If so, is there any documentation available?
Thanks again!
Also.. I just unpublished the confirmation page plugin for that form.. The should eliminate any possible bugs I imagine.
The Email verification plugin works a bit like the Registration Validation process. It saves a record in a table that you nominate including a status column with a true/false value; sends out an email with a confirmation link; then updates the status column when the link is clicked.
Most plugins have a Help tab with at least basic notes on configuration.
Bob
Unfortunately for me Email Verification does not have a help tab.
It saves a record in a table that you nominate including a status column with a true/false value; sends out an email with a confirmation link; then updates the status column when the link is clicked.
1) Do I need to create this table via chronoforms or use an existing table? I have already succesfully created a table and associated it with the form, if that matters. Possibly just edit this table to include a "status column with a true/false value?" I assume the answer to this question then gets selected in the drop down box in DB config field of the plugin.
2)Is the "Verification flag field:" then the true/false field in the above said table?
3) Then there is the "on Submit Code" Yikes. Way beyond my skill level if i am not able to copy paste.. 😀
Do you think this is something I am going to be able to complete without documentation?
Here's the Help Tab from my version (which is probably somewhere in the forums here)
Help for Email Verification plugin
The plugin allows you to send an email to the user containing a verification link. When they click the link a database table is checked and updated to confirm their e-mail address is valid.
* Choose the table you want to use to record the verifications in the Configuration tab. NB the table **must** include columns for the ChronoForms UID and a TINYINT column to record the verification. If either of these columns ar not present the Plugin will not work correctly.
* Select a column name in the second dropdown to record the verification. Only TINYINT columns will be shown NB This drop-down will not appear until you select a table in the first drop-down.
* On the E-mail Settings tab enter the header values for the verification email. Normally you will use the Dynamic To box to enter a field name from your form for the email address to be verified and static Subject, From Name and From E-mail Address values.
* If you want to use Dynamic values for the Subject or other fields enter them in the Advanced boxes and leave the recommended boxes empty.
* On the E-mail message tab enter the text of the email you want to send. You can use {field_name} to include input values from your form. You should also add {vlink} to include the verification link. You can disable the rich-text editor in the configuration tab.
* On the Extra Code tab you can enter code to be run before the email is sent, or after the verification link is clicked. The code can include HTML which will be displayed and PHP inside tags.
* Once this plugin is configured you must enable it in the Form 'Plugins' tab.
Bob
Is this a table one I must first create? Is it an existing table in the drop down list, if so witch one? Do I edit the current form table to include the tinyint column and select that one?
Any table that you like as long as it has he Chronoforms UID and a TINYINT column in it. Probably adding a column to the one you have is easiest.
Bob
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What is a "verification code?" I've been trying so many things for around 12 hours and still can't get this up and running. Not happy.
I never figured it out.
