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Hello!

First of all, thank you so much for this great ChronoForms component!

I'm not very experienced with Joomla!, but am making a website on this CMS system for a friend of mine. I needed a solid and versatile form plugin, and stumbled upon ChronoForms on the joomla.org website.

I've created and setup my first form. It's simple and straightforward.

Link URL: http://lavista.dk/joomla/index.php/bestil-bord

Now to my questions:

1) The '?'-help buttons on the right are awkwardly floating. How do I modify these buttons so that the tooltip text doesn't extend beneath the right column contents? Also, is it possible to move the buttons further to the left so that they're closer to (and inline with/vertically centered to) the textboxes?

2) The form appears very "loose" in the layout on my webpage. But if I check the form's appearance through the "Frontend View" option in the Forms Manager, it looks better and tighter. Why is that?

3) Where do I choose to which e-mail adress the form information is sent to?

4) Is it possible to reload the exact same page without the form and instead display the "Thanks Message" event? I have tried this, and it works, but I have an image slideshow/carrousel running in the header on the webpage, and for some odd reason it disappears entirely when displaying the "Thanks Message".

5) Captcha appears fine on the form, but it doesn't check the code for verification. You can enter anything, and still access to the "Thanks Message" webpage that displays afterwards (I assume the form information is sent to the recipient once the "Thanks Message" event occurs?). What do I need to do to make sure the Captcha works right?

My EVENT information:

On Load
- Show html
- Load Captcha

On Submit
- Check Captcha
1) OnSuccess
2) OnFail
- Show Thanks Message

Phew! I apologize for this wall-of-text and my many newbie questions, but hey, gotta get help somehow, somewhere!😀

Thank you so much for your time, and ANY help is very much appreciated!


Yours sincerely,
ufoldager

Hi ufoldager,

Most of these are from interaction between the form and your template. You'll need to tweak the CSS to get the effects that you want.

1) For the tooltip try putting this in a Load CSS action before the Show HTML action.

div.tooltipbox {
  z-index:100;
  background: white;
  border: 1px solid silver;
  padding: 2px;
}

2) With the front-end form link the tight CSS is being loaded; with the link you posted this is still being loaded followed by the normal 'looser' CSS which is over-writing it. I don't know why this is happening. Is there some reson for not using the direct link to the form?

3) To set up an Email please see this video

4) The Check Captcha is probably missing the Event Loop action - plese check this video

Bob

Most of these are from interaction between the form and your template. You'll need to tweak the CSS to get the effects that you want.

Alright thanks, I'll look into this.

1) For the tooltip try putting this in a Load CSS action before the Show HTML action.

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div.tooltipbox {
z-index:100;
background: white;
border: 1px solid silver;
padding: 2px;
}

That worked flawlessly, thank you!

2) With the front-end form link the tight CSS is being loaded; with the link you posted this is still being loaded followed by the normal 'looser' CSS which is over-writing it. I don't know why this is happening. Is there some reson for not using the direct link to the form?

I am not sure I understand your question. What do you mean with "using a direct link"?

3) To set up an Email please see this video
4) The Check Captcha is probably missing the Event Loop action - plese check this video

Both video's were excellent and helped me out. Thank you!


Cheers,
ufoldager

Hi ufoldager »,

The 'direct link' is the one from the FrontEnd View link in the Forms Manager. It will be something like

index.php?option-=con_chronoforms&chronoform=my_form_name

Bob

This is very strange.

After completing the changes I needed from my previous posts, the slideshow I have running on all of my webpages have mostly stopped working.

Is this maybe due to the CSS change we made for the tooltip? I'm clueless as to why it's happened.

Funny thing is, though, that the slideshow is still active on the 2 webpages that has the ChronoForm attached to them.

Here with Slideshow: http://lavista.dk/joomla/index.php/bestil-bord

And here without: http://lavista.dk/joomla/index.php/arrangementer

Slideshow area is blank on all webpages for some reason. This happened after adjusting the ChronoForm module.


Cheers,
ufoldager

This is so weird. Everything works fine now, but I didn't change a thing. No editing, no modifications, nothing.

Even though, the Slideshow works fine again. I also had a Google Map script that I didn't know how to remove, and that has been fixed as well.

Tell me, when you uninstall a plugin/module, does it sometime take a little time before the plugin removal "kicks in" or something?

It's odd that this problem has fixed itself. There's got to be a reasonable explanation.


Cheers,
ufoldager

Hi ufoldager,

What's possible is that some of the scripts were cached in your browser and the problems didn't go away until the cached versions expired or were over-written.

Bob

Bob