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Hi,

I am not really technical, so there is probably something I am not doing right!

I created a form within Joomla 1.7 but upon "submit" nothing happens.. So what do I do wrong? I followed a video tutorial, did exactly the same thing, but no result so far.

Here you will find the form: http://www.ellenvandrunen.com/latest-news/postcards-for-sale

But in the backend when I click on the link "Frontend view" I end up with a 404 page..

I will attach 2 images of the backend. I hope the solution is simple and that I just overlooked it..😉

Thanks for helping!
Ellen (The Netherlands)

Nobody has a clue for me? What should I check?

Any help would be great.😉

Regards,
Ellen

Hi Elloen,

Please rename your form to removed the dashes. Change it from 'order-postcard-sets' to 'orderpostcardsets' or 'order_postcard_sets'.

Note that there is a help message on the Form Settings tab saying "Unique form name without spaces or any special characters, underscores _ or dashes -" In my experience underscores don't cause a problem but dashes definitely do.

Bob

PS You also need to sort of the orde of the actions in both events so that they are logical. The Load and Check Captcah actions should come first for example. And the Check Captcha action needs an Evetn Loop acton in the On Fail box.

Hi Bob,

Thank you for your help. I did what you said, so it now looks like this (but unfortunately still not working..😟 )

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[attachment=0]Schermafbeelding 2011-12-11 om 12.53.28.png[/attachment]

What am I doing wrong?😟

Thanks for your help again!

Ellen

Hi ellenvandrunen,

'Not working' how exactly? It appears to Submit OK.

You need an Event Loop action in the Chaeck Captcha On Fail event to get that working.

You probably need to put JQuery into NoConflict mode to stop it breaking any validation you are using.

Bob

Well, I don't receive any email upon submission. And the thank you message doesn't show either.

I do have an event loop for the check captcha. Maybe it's in the wrong position?

This "You probably need to put JQuery into NoConflict mode to stop it breaking any validation you are using." I don't understand. Where should I change that?

Thanks again Bob for helping me!
Ellen

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Hi ellenvandrunen,

The Event Loop action needs to go into the pink On Fail event and to be set to the default > On Load The way you have it now will stop the form executing corectly. Please see the videos here http://www.youtube.com/greyheadnet

Your template (or some other component) is loading the jQuery JavaScript library. Out of the box jQuery isn't compatible with the MooTools library used by Joomla! and ChronoForms. You can use jQuery with MooTools in no-conflict mode. There are various ways of doing this. If it works on your site, the simplest is to add a line of script in the ChronoForms Form JavaScript box:

jQuery.noConflict();

This will free the $ operator which is used by MooTools, so you may need to update your own javascripts to use the longer jQuery operator.

Bob

Hi Bob,

Oke, the first part I changed. Should the settings be "Target Event > On Load" (like the video) or something else?

The second part about the javascript I don't really understand. (sorry)

Where exactly should I put that code?

We'll get there some day... I hope!😉

Greetings,
Ellen

Hi Ellen,

You should have the Event Loop set up exactly as it is in the video.

I'm sorry but I can't tell you how you need to put your JQuery code into noConflict mode. It depends on how the template/extensions you are using are coded. You can try asking the authors but the success rate seems low :-(

Bob

Hi Bob,

Thanks anyway!

Ellen

I even tried without the captcha code, so I guess the form is just not working for me.

I'm sorry for all the effort you put in for me, thanks anyway.

Hi Ellen,

By all means email or PM me the site URL and a SuperAdmin login and I'll take a quick look at the Captcha problem.

Bob