redirecting with different templates

I have 6 templates on my site... one "index template" (like a splash page), and 5 site templates.

I am trying to send a simple acknowledgment message after the user submits the form, without using 5 different forms. (each form has 1 redirect URL field... thus 5 different URLs I can redirect to)

Even if I redirect to the original form URL, I will still need 5 forms.

Is there a way to avoid this?

Hi kai920,

I'm not understanding correctly. ChronoForms doesn't do any styling so should pick up the template code in use??

What happens if you just add some simple html in the OnSubmit after email box? That should show up as a a Thank You page. If the css in it matches the template css it should be styled too??

Bob

Hello Bob,

Here's the thing, in the admin backend Chronoforms auto-generates the link URL (for example: index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=toolkit) but this link actually uses the DEFAULT template (my "splash page" template) -- which is not what I want.

I found that I need to create a link URL with a unique ItemID to be able to assign the template I need. I have tried adding some simple html thank you page ( see here) but on redirect this uses the index template because it redirects to index.php?option=com_chronocontact&task=send&chronoformname=toolkit.

The redirect method that works is to use the mambot and use the {chronocontact} call to bring up the form, then redirect to a specific content item that has a short thank you message. But this method requires 5 different {chronocontact} calls (5 content items) + 5 different "form acknowledgment" content items.

I hope my explanation makes sense!<br><br>Post edited by: GreyHead, at: 2008/03/23 00:42

Hi Kai,

If you collect the ItemID from the page somehow you could change the redirect in the 'OnSubmit after email' box. I think that would do what you want.

Bob

Hi Kai,

Try to make the Chronoform menu item of type "Component", once you make the menu item and click APPLY you will see the formname field on the right hand side and then you can add the form name, this way the menu item will have a unique ItemId!

Cheers

Max

Hi Max & Bob,

Thank you both - good suggestions. I had not noticed the form name parameter at the right of the component link before. Not sure how it will help but will play around with it.

Also like Bob's ItemID idea... I will try something with _GET itemid and see if that can redirect me to different URLs.

Hi Kai,

If you collect the ItemID from the page somehow you could change the redirect in the 'OnSubmit after email' box. I think that would do what you want.

Bob

I tried forwarding with this code

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=original link" >

but it still goes to my index splash template, waiting 5 seconds before going to the original link. Is there a way to skip straight to the link I want to redirect to?

I also did Max's suggestion and entered "toolkit", my form name, into the URL parameter. The itemid is 157, but I am not sure how this helps. :unsure:

Hi Kai,

You got a unique itemiid then you can use the template manager to assign your template to it, no ?

Hello,

I did assign a template to that menu item, but when I click on it in chronoforms backend ( index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=toolkit) it still uses the splash template and not the one I assigned it.

Sure, because this link won't have the itemId, no way to change this, you will always need to view the form through that menu item if you wanna see it under this template!

Cheers

Max<br><br>Post edited by: admin, at: 2008/03/27 23:02

So is there no way to get around having 5 different forms?

You can have any number of forms you need, but to see them inlcuded in the template you need then you must view the page with the correct itemid!

Cheers

Max

Hi Max,

That is actually the thing I am trying to avoid. I want to have ONE form that collects the same information for the 5 templates. I do not want to have 5 tables of data to go through in the admin backend.

I have 5 content items currently with calls to load the SAME form through the chronocontact mambot. But I can't get the redirect to work correctly after submission.

Sorry if I am misunderstanding what you are saying, but I don't see how the itemid helps in my case?


Cheers,
Kai

hi Max, further to my previous email: this is what I am doing now... maybe you can give me some suggestions on how to improve this:

template 1:
content item 1 -> {chronocontact}form{/chronocontact} -> redirect to acknowledgment 1

template 2:
content item 2 -> {chronocontact}form{/chronocontact} -> redirect to acknowledgment 2

template 3:
content item 3 -> {chronocontact}form{/chronocontact} -> redirect to acknowledgment 3

template 4:
content item 4 -> {chronocontact}form{/chronocontact} -> redirect to acknowledgment 4

template 5:
content item 5 -> {chronocontact}form{/chronocontact} -> redirect to acknowledgment 5