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Hi, I have gotten the confirmation page to work, but I have an issue with the "back"

My radio buttons can select options on the form, and there is a summary field that puts in their selections and calculates the fee. When I go back (and this same issue happened with a normal "reset" button), it seems to be holding the previously checked values. So even if I select a new option, it will have now 2 options selected, and there doesn't seem to be a way to deselect or clear the previous selection.

Also I want to use my own submit button, but when I do it just loops back to the form and does not submit. I saw where there were some updated plugin files, but it seems they are very old and I am not sure if that's what I need for my version (V 3.2)

Strangely enough IE seems to handle the reset but Firefox does not.

Can anyone tell me how to make sure when clicking back that it is not "remembering" old data? And also how to make my own submit button work on the confirmation page? I don't want it at the bottom!

Thank you for a great component.

Cheryl

Hi Cheryl,

I've no idea about the option buttons; the simple answer for the submit button is probably not to use the Confirmation page* but to use a multi-page form (or a two-part form) to create your own confirmation page. That way you have full control over the layout and processing.

Bob

* The Confirmation Page plug-in has problems with sending emails and some other post-processing steps.

Thanks Bob, good idea, I will try that!

Would the code on the confirmation page also work on the multi page form?

Cheryl

actually, i don't think that will help my "clear" problem, but may be a better option anyway.

Do you know of any code that will clear ALL the previous selections so the person could start over? The "reset" button does not do this like I said, on Firefox.

Cheryl

Ok, found that if i Set fields to NOT republish the "back " on the confirmation page works to clear it! YAY

So I guess I could have republish and just set those fields which need to clear to "not" republish that would work too.

I think I'm on a roll now, thanks!!
cheryl

ARRGH... I finally got the confirmation page and back thing working fine, all was looking good. Then I added the redirect plugin for paypal, and CRASH it all fell apart.

Does confirmation page NOT work with paypal redirect (using redirect plugin, NOT api)

Cheryl

SO just to let you know, the paypal redirect works fine without the confirmation page enabled, and the confirmation page works fine without the redirect plugin enabled.

Is there something I can do with the order to fix that? Or anything else you know!??

I can't bear the thought of starting over.

Cheryl

Hi Cheryl,

I'm afraid that the confirmation page plug-in is simply not reliable :-( It hi-jacks the submission process and doesn’t replicate all the steps.

I rarely use it but instead code a switch into the Form HTML to display my own page. Someone recently also used the Multi-Page plug-in to create a confirmation page.

Bob

That's a bummer, it's a nice idea if it would work. I ended up just making 2 forms, one for submitting the form online & proceeding to paypal, and one for submitting online but then printing the form (with conf. page) for those who want to mail in a check.

I hope the confirmation page can be improved on later.

Thanks Bob.

Cheryl