Complex quote request form

I need to create a form to gather quote requests for various products. The top of the form will gather basic contact information (name, phone #, ship to city/state, etc). There will be a dropdown selection box that allows a person to choose "I know what I want" or "walk me through the product lines." If they know what they want, a list of all available products is displayed, with a quantity box next to each row. My product table has product code, description, type, an image and a category code. They should be able to fill in a qty next to the products they want, and on submission their selections are saved to the db and emailed to a sales person. If they choose the "walk me through" option, the products in the primary product category are displayed (product code, description, image & qty box), then based on their selection, corresponding products should be made available for selection. Again, once they make their selections & submit, they are saved to the db and emailed.

I have been told that this is possible to do using ChronoForms, without too much custom coding and that it involves the http Request action and event loops, but I haven't been able to find a lot of information. I have used ChronoForms in the past for simple forms, and have edited a more complex data entry app that was created using ChronoForms, so I have a little knowledge of the product - but it has been a couple of years since I used it. I was going to buy the book, but since that was written for v3 and I am going to use v4, it may not help. I could just use a starting point and a general idea of the process. Thank You!



Submitted by 184.36.141.6

Hi earobins,

It's certainly possible to do though the coding to handle multiple choices can get a bit complex.

I'd start off doing this as a sequence of linked forms; once you get the logic of this clear then you could consider going back and converting to Ajax - though you may find the benefit is limited in this case.

Bob