Wanna start out by saying V4 is awesome. I was skeptical about v4 when it first came out and even wrote a post saying it looked like it was going in the wrong direction and making things too complicated. I think you've done an awesome job of again building an amazing form builder that helps people not only build forms but learn all about forms in the process, which was one of the things that I loved about V3.
Couple things on my wish list:
1 spacing of the FORM code output ( right now it's printed as one line of text )
makes reading and customizing it so much easier.
2 REDUCE the # of clicks: ex: add a Save and Close button on modal windows, Ajaxify the wizard
I have a thing for working with the least # of clicks possible. Let's say I added 20 textboxes to a new form. Modifying them ( ID, Name, etc ) requires a lot of clicks: Click to add the field. Click the field to open the modal window. Click to save the edits. Click to close the modal window... (Don't know which form element I just edited because it doesn't update, so) Click to go to the Form details tab, Click to save the form, Click back to the form events / html, Click an HTML element...
I LIKE the layout, the process, everything. Much more than V3. I just think there's a few simple things you could do to reduce the number of clicks within the current workflow.
3 ability to enter a script command in form elements using the wizard editor
Giving us a line where we can enter a script command. For example, I built a form that allows people to publish tasks to my project management system. The subject line can have a bunch of data: Subject (project name) (task list) (deadline) (priority) etc...
So I created a form with individual fields for each data string and then used some simple javascript that required an onKeyup=Sync() script command on each textbox to append it all into the real subject line. Would be great to be able to do that AND continue to use the Wizard Editor for the HTML rather than a custom form html ( which, btw, being able to continue to use the wizard for everything else without changing the custom HTML is a super awesome function / upgrade from V3 where the wizard became useless after customizing the HTML ).
Demo of the Form is here: https://worklabs.ca/index.php?Itemid=1207&option=com_chronoforms
Couple things on my wish list:
1 spacing of the FORM code output ( right now it's printed as one line of text )
makes reading and customizing it so much easier.
2 REDUCE the # of clicks: ex: add a Save and Close button on modal windows, Ajaxify the wizard
I have a thing for working with the least # of clicks possible. Let's say I added 20 textboxes to a new form. Modifying them ( ID, Name, etc ) requires a lot of clicks: Click to add the field. Click the field to open the modal window. Click to save the edits. Click to close the modal window... (Don't know which form element I just edited because it doesn't update, so) Click to go to the Form details tab, Click to save the form, Click back to the form events / html, Click an HTML element...
I LIKE the layout, the process, everything. Much more than V3. I just think there's a few simple things you could do to reduce the number of clicks within the current workflow.
3 ability to enter a script command in form elements using the wizard editor
Giving us a line where we can enter a script command. For example, I built a form that allows people to publish tasks to my project management system. The subject line can have a bunch of data: Subject (project name) (task list) (deadline) (priority) etc...
So I created a form with individual fields for each data string and then used some simple javascript that required an onKeyup=Sync() script command on each textbox to append it all into the real subject line. Would be great to be able to do that AND continue to use the Wizard Editor for the HTML rather than a custom form html ( which, btw, being able to continue to use the wizard for everything else without changing the custom HTML is a super awesome function / upgrade from V3 where the wizard became useless after customizing the HTML ).
Demo of the Form is here: https://worklabs.ca/index.php?Itemid=1207&option=com_chronoforms
Hi marcodeluca ,
Good comments, thank you. Can I suggest that you email Max a link to this post to make sure that he reads it.
Bob
PS I'm not sure about the script suggestion. IMHO it's better to keep the scripts in the Form JS box and use addEvent to link them to the HTML.
Good comments, thank you. Can I suggest that you email Max a link to this post to make sure that he reads it.
Bob
PS I'm not sure about the script suggestion. IMHO it's better to keep the scripts in the Form JS box and use addEvent to link them to the HTML.
Yah I'm not a javascript expert, I'm sure there's a way to setup the JS as an event or an external file without any inline scripting
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