You can make them appear the same to users but FormsPlus works on Elements. Not Options. Select Menu is an Element with a ānameā parameter. That Element saves itself to the column with the same name. Two Elements canāt have the same name. More info is in the documentation:
If you have further questions about specific use-case requirements, please feel free to contact us
Greg
If you need more support on this letās follow up via this link in case we need to dig further than we can here on the forum.
When you send that in, please give us the url of the form (if itās published) for us to look at. And include the link to your question here, please.
Right ā I think it probably isnāt going to work for me then. Iāll send you the use-case directly.
I notice that when you move to a new page, the forum repositions itself right at the top of the viewable page. If there is a fixed element at the top of the page, like a menu perhaps, can an offset be applied to the form?
Hi, please open a support ticket and we will take a look. Weāll need a link to the published form.
Thanks
Sorry, I think there is a misunderstanding. Iām not raising a support issue but asking the question.
Does the new version of Formsplus have an offset setting, so it doesnāt always float back to the very top of the page when you move between form stages/pages?
It doesnāt float to the top of the page, it goes to the top of the form. Hope that clarifies the behavior. If youāre filling out a long form where you have to scroll, it takes you back to continue with the next step. There is no setting to control or disable this, sorry.
-Greg
What I mean is the top of the form floats to the very top of the screen, as per the attached screenshot.
So if there is something already sticking to the top of the page, like the menu, the form ends up behind it, which doesnāt look professional.
So I wonder if a method to offset it from the top of the page/screen has been added to V2?
how do i configure MySQL to manage tables? or is this an automatic option?
Itās automatic. No options and nothing to configure. Just enter your mysql settings and point FormsPlus at an empty table
Greg
Sure, Table. Databases can have many Tables. Just need an empty Table to store the submissions.
Hi Doug
I just noticed that I received a crash log that appears to be from you. There are 2 items in the crash log:
property guest 1 in your form? can you remove spaces and use letters only?Thanks
Greg
Thanks @barchard - I have been having some Formsplus issues on my machine to do with conditional elements showing/not showing and sent that over to @LaPan to try and assist with info. I have turned off the database side (fix one issue at a time!) Cheers DougP
BlockquoteFormsPlus is smart. It will automatically manage the MySQL via employee time tracking software table for you. If you add a field to your form, it adds the column to the database. No need to do any database management yourself! If a field is not submitted, itās empty
Thanks, itās very convenient, even No options and nothing to customize.
With some great help from @willwood (thanks again Will!), FormsPlus 2.1 is now live! Please check for updates in Stacks. FormsPlus 2.1 adds some nice new features and some important bug fixes. Donāt have a copy yet? Grab one now!
Thanks
Greg
Hi, @barchard I did ask back up there about the offset from page top issue but didnāt get a reply. I wonder what the situation is on this?
Apologies for the delay. FormsPlus does not support this. If content covers items within the page, the amount of extra offset needed would vary based on the viewport size. You could try adding a fixed height Stack like Spacer from @willwood as the first item on each Step to compensate but this is not something I officially support.
Hope that helps
-Greg
I canāt help but think you are misunderstanding what Iām trying to say. If a page has a fixed menu at the top of the page, when Formsplus moves to a new page it floats back to the very top of the page, and so sits behind the menu. Things like viewports have nothing to do with anything.
For what itās worth, itās is entirely possible, and very easy, even I managed to do it in the end (I had help initially). It took about five mins and meant just adding one line of code plus adding the option into the settings. But I just kept forgetting to add it to new versions, then forgot how to do it! I recall sending you an edited version of the stack a long long time ago, but didnāt hear back from you. Maybe it never made it to you.
The spacer idea seems neat though, Iāll give that a look. Although, that wonāt stop the page steps at the top of the page disappearing behind things like fixed menus, will it?
Without this facility pages with Formsplus and fixed menus just look amateurish, as the form always floats back to the top and partially disappears behind the menu.
EDIT: This is what I mean. This is page/step two on a form. This is what needs fixing. A simple offset added to settings can fix it.
Same page/form with the Spacer stack. Doesnāt fix the problem.
Hmmmā¦ that doesnāt look good!
