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I am a novice with an issue on a certain form. The wizard will not let me save text that is very long.
The form includes some instructions. I can place the text field, insert the text, apply it, and view it in the wizard. After I save it, the field remains, but the text vanishes.
I thought there might be a character limit, so I tried splitting the text into two fields. It won't let me save two consecutive text fields. Even tried to use headings as text fields, identical results/restrictions.
I've poured through the forums here, on Joomla, and searched Google. Either this is unique, or I haven't stumbled upon the magic keyword. So if this is posted somewhere, my apologies.
I have not had this issue on other sites, and have used the same version of Chronoforms (3.1_RC5.5) and Joomla 1.5 on all sites.
Could it be a template issue?
As I said, I am a novice, but follow direction well if it contains enough normal english🙂.
Any suggestions or links to solutions would be appreciated.

Hi heywood11,

I'm not aware of any length limit on the Wizard though there may well be one.

You can edit the text in the Form HTML box, and/or use a PHP 'include' statement to add it from an external file.

Bob

Thanks for the reply Bob.
I thought that the character limit was a bit of a long shot.
I had previously succeeded by editing the form code. But I still wanted to post this in case others have had the same issue. Just wish the form code edits didn't have to be re-applied anytime I add a field in the wizard. Is there a reason for this "feature?"
As I mentioned before, I haven't run into this in other forms, so maybe it's just some issue with the template I'm using.
Thanks Again!

Hi heywood11,

The reason that you can't use the Wizard after a manual edit is that the Wizard has no way of knowing that you've made an edit. It's a long, long way off being clever enough to parse 'real world' HTML so it uses a saved copy of the basic form structure (you can see it in a form backup file). When you use the Wizard it re-loads its saved version and you edit that.

There are ways round it. The one I use most often is to create the extra fields in a temporary form and copy and paste the HTML into the Form HTML box of the one I want to update.

Bob

NICE!! I'll remember that.
Regards