Editing Forms

[lisa]

Quick 2 Questions:

1. How do you change a form once you've created it? (where is it located)

2. What is the text link to create a "Log Out" link after logging in as a secure user?

Thanks!

[napjones]

Kudos to the staff.

I too want to know how to revise or edit forms after creation. Also would like to know how to
further customize by putting fields side or to make a form into sections. Any thoughts on how to do this, I am need of a programmer who can integrate a form into Soholaunch.

Nap Jones

[lwyau]

Luckily I just did a couple of form modifications myself.

Once you created a form, say "custom.form", you can find it in the "site file" list. Download it and modify it however you wish in an HTML editor such as Dreamweaver, then upload it back.

You then go to the page editor, "trash-can" the form object and re-do a new one in its place.

Leh-Wen Yau

[Cameron Allen]

Well, Lwyau pretty much nailed this one. :cool:

And in case it helps, here's a link to the doc on using custom web forms in Soholaunch Pro (http://promanual.soholaunch.com/index.php?pr=Home_Page&id=18&read=10&p=&lang=english).

[napjones]

ThanKs. that did hit the nail on the head.

Nap Jones

[carno]

I can download the form and edit the html, but it changes it to .htm. I can't upload it that way and can't change it to .form. :confused:

[Ruben]

editing things in soholaunch is a big problem and hope this will be resolved in the version 5 release.

[webfarm]

Hey, where would be the best place to find out about upcoming changes for the soho software. Mainly as I have a few users complaining about the lack of ease with modifying forms after they have been built. Most of these users are using soho as they are not very html savvy.
Also would it be worth reporting the wanted modifications for the form editor in the bugz.soholaunch? I haven't been able to find requested changes to the form manager in bugz.
The most common ones I get are the ability to be able to edit the form after it has been made and the ability to delete the form from within the form manager rather than going into the file manager.

editing things in soholaunch is a big problem and hope this will be resolved in the version 5 release.

[Ruben]

yes, you can post them at bugz.soholaunch.com, that would be the best place for requesting other features and changes.

[stinkybunny]

Hi - first off, thanks for even looking at trying to help-
:?
I've looked http://www.lunarforums.com/ and at http://forum.soholaunch.com for information about changing the results page after submitting a form. Sorry if I missed a post that would help I am trying to *at least* to have the form results page display as text on the same page, or another way of saying it might be, I'm trying to have the same session id or 'address in the address bar' stay the same and show what the user filled in as their results of filling in a form after submission. I hope this is clear...ish as to my intent.

So, I want 'form questions' to appear on
http://myurl.com/index.php?pr=reading2
and I want my 'form answers' to appear on the same page
http://myurl.com/index.php?pr=reading2


There is a variable assigned that can be changed, but I'm not sure how to change the variable.
I've tried the following:
1.
// (code in redirect section of pgm-form-submit.php)
$PAGEGO = eregi_replace(". ", " ", $PAGEGO);
//kicks me out to the home page(url below)
http://myurlhere.com/index.php?pr=&=SID


2.
// (code in redirect section of pgm-form-submit.php)
$PAGEGO = eregi_replace(".* ", " ", $PAGEGO);
//Underconstruction page (side bar is exited as if to main site)
http://myurlhere.com/index.php?pr=__&=SID


3.
// (code in redirect section of pgm-form-submit.php)
$PAGEGO = eregi_replace("/", " ", $PAGEGO);
//nope, went back to home page (side bar is exited as if to main site)
http://myurlhere.com/index.php?pr=Home_Page&=SID


This is the actual section from the pgm-form-submit.php that I think is where I'd set-up the 'redirect' back to itself.
// -----------------------------------------------------
// Only other option is to redirect to a specified page
// -----------------------------------------------------

$PAGEGO = eregi_replace(" ", " ", $PAGEGO);
$PAGEGO = ucwords($PAGEGO);
$PAGEGO = eregi_replace(" ", "_", $PAGEGO);

header("Location: index.php?pr=$PAGEGO&=SID");


Thanks for taking a look, I apologise if I missed this an answer in the forum that would have been applicable and/or my lack of php/html knowledge. :?
thanks,
jes

[Joe Lain]

Responded to your post here (http://forum.soholaunch.com/showthread.php?t=911)

[stinkybunny]

Hi Joe,

thanks for the directions on how to proceed. I'll give it a try.
Just what I was looking for, thanks.
cheers, :-)
jes

[rlbsoho]

I can download the form and edit the html, but it changes it to .htm. I can't upload it that way and can't change it to .form. :confused:

Has anyone figured this one out yet?

[stinkybunny]

Has anyone figured this one out yet?

:confused: Although I appriciated the directions offered, I wasn't able to get the forms to work using that PAGEGO variable thingy.

So, I'm not using the forms function within the system. I found that if I use the entire url to my cgi and upload my plain vanilla form as an html include, I'm able to get my form and answer page (cgi output) to work.

If your having trouble with the html/htm thing try forgoing the use of the forms module and upload your own stuff as html includes.
hope this helps,
jes :rolleyes:

[Edwin]

I am a new and no experience in web sites. How can I access the "site file" list to download a form?

Many Thanks,
Edwin

[hippo]

Luckily I just did a couple of form modifications myself.

Once you created a form, say "custom.form", you can find it in the "site file" list. Download it and modify it however you wish in an HTML editor such as Dreamweaver, then upload it back.

You then go to the page editor, "trash-can" the form object and re-do a new one in its place.

Leh-Wen Yau

lwyau, pardon the newbie Q, but where can the "site file" list be found, please?

[lwyau]

Go to File Manger in Soho.

[khokies]

editing things in soholaunch is a big problem and hope this will be resolved in the version 5 release.

Going through this 'download and edit and then upload' business is crazy. We should be able to do simple editing like making a field mandatory or changing a field name within the forms module.

I hope this release is going to be out soon.