Advanced Forms

This section contains information to help you get even more out of your OneStopCMS forms, such as using custom validation to ensure your forms are sent with correct information.

Last updated: 09 May 2012, 15:55

This feature can be used if you want to track how many people are taking part in an event you are holding. There are two different types of accumulator, which are described on this page.

Add a grid-style survey to your forms

You can add a grid of radio buttons to your forms to allow visitors to quickly rate multiple items.

Add Links to Form Labels, Help text, and Text paragraphs

It is possible for you to add a link to the label of an item on your form, text paragraphs, and if your site is configured correctly, you can also add it to the help text.

Allow your visitors to save their forms for later

If your forms are long, you can give your visitors the option of saving what they have done for submission at a later date.

Custom Validation

This section shows you how to add custom validation to your forms, so you can be sure that when they are submitted, the data you receive is as correct as it can be.

Define common form sections to use on multiple forms on your site

If you have the same set of questions that you ask on multiple forms on your website, you can set these up as a form snippet.

Display a different message based on submitted answers

When a visitor submits a form, you can display different text depending on the values that the user entered on the form.

Forcing the use of an SSL secure connection

You can ensure that a form's submission is handled securely by setting it to use an HTTPS secure connection.

How to make the values in a dropdown change depending on the value chosen in another dropdown

You can make dropdown questions present a different list of values depending on what the user has selected in another question on your forms. Follow these steps to learn how.

How to require that at least one question is answered from a group of questions

If you want to present a group of questions where you require at least one, but not necessarily all, of the questions to be answered, set them up as a 'Mandatory Group'.

Resource Gallery for Allowed Value Images

Instead of boring radio buttons and check boxes, why not use pictures to represent the options that a user can select in a form?

Run a simple survey that displays different results depending on answer combinations

You can give your form's answers numerical values and then display different content depending on the sum of the answers chosen by your visitor.

Setting A Maximum Length On Form Fields

You can use the ‘Maximum Length (chars)’ setting to restrict the length of text that can by typed into a form item.

Show form items depending on values chosen in other dropdowns

It is possible to add questions to forms that only appear when the visitor selects certain options from dropdown lists elsewhere on the form.

The emails that a form sends

When a user submits one of your forms, the form can send emails to you and the user to let you know that the form has been submitted.

Use answers given by the user in the Post Submission Text of a form.

You can include answers given by the user in the text that you show them after they submit a form.

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