Hi Doug,
With your great input I am making some headway but I would like to ask you some more questions please:
Thank you so much!
Jimmy
Please ignore my second question: Those heading settings DO influence the size - it just isn’t shown in the edit area, like in a regular RW stack.
Honestly I’m no expert on styled text (What FormLoom uses for headings).
Not sure how you did that?
If you want to use the FormLoom headers and you set it to say an h1 then you could add some CSS to add margin center the text:
h1 {
text-align:center;
}
or
h1 {
margin-left:50px;
}
I would use the stacks helper.
Now that gives you the flexibility of stacks for formatting, but you have to publish to see it. You have to publish to test forms anyway so it’s not a big deal for me.
Wow, so all of that is possible? Cool, then I think I can make the forms really integrate with my RW/Foundry site! That’s great news, but I am not sure yes as, if you don’t mind, I would need advice on two of the above steps you set out…
ad 2: How do you hide it from navigation?
ad 5-1: How do I add the Formloom helper stack to my regular RW/stacks page?
ad 5-2: By ‘pointing it to’ do you mean ‘within the Formloom helper stack add a link to the actual form’? If so, will the visitor be taken to a different page that does not look like my RW site?
THANKS AGAIN FOR ALL YOUR ADVICE. I was already beginning to think I had paid $50 for an add-on that was way over my head (whereas with your tips I might actually turn it into a useful purchase).
Page inspector there’s a checkbox for show in navigation.
It’s a stack that comes with FormLoom. Just place it on the stacks page where you want the form to be.
The helper stack is pretty simple. Other than the standard settings like background and margins, there’s a simple link that you point to the page that the contains the FormLoom page you want “inserted” into the stacks page.
Thank you Doug, I am going to try this now. One issue: in my RW project I cannot find the Helper Stack anywhere! I searched all my stacks under ‘Formloom’, ‘Helper’, and ‘Form’ but nothing comes up.
What am I missing here?
Thank you kind sir!
Jim,
I have been using FL 4 the exact way that Teefers says.
I create my forms in a FormLoom page. I create a Stacks page and place the FormLoom Helper stack in it where I want the form to show. This allows me to use the Stacks page to set up the page the way I want and the FL form will just be placed where I tell it to.
The big thing you need to do - as Teefers said - is to make sure the FormLoom form is set to use no theme. It is in the FormLoom settings - on the first page of the settings at the top you will see “No Theme”. That must be checked.
Paul
Thank you Paul. Sounds very good. If I cannot pull it off, can I ask you for advice?
Sure. Be glad to help if I can
Paul
Perhaps you will need more info, or perhaps this is more a question for @teefers but this is the issue…
I set a rule for a form item to be shown when the answer to another form item is "OTHER”. Yet, when choosing that answer “OTHER”, the new form item is not shown. What am I doing wrong?
What kind of field is the field “OTHER”? Is it a radio button, or Select menu?
Maybe some screenshots would help.
Looks like you have “OTHER” returning a value of 100, so change the rule to look for 100, not “OTHER”.
Aha, so that’s what those values are there for! I thought they were for sorting the data in MySQL or something like that.
Awesome, I got it to work now. Both the My helper Stack and this Rule. You rule! Thank you so much.
Hi Doug,
May I pick your brain for a minute please? I am trying to import a list of countries into my Formloom Radio Menu form item but am not succeeding.
This is what I did and what happened…
1. I click on Import Options…
2. I choose my sample Excel file.
Unfortunately, nothing happens. The options space remains blank…
3. Instead, I re-click Import Options and now choose my sample CSV file…
Now the Options Space get filled with EMPTY options, NOT with the sample countries.
Any idea what I am doing wrong?
Thank you very much, once again,
Jim
PS: Do you perhaps know where one can find standard lists (of countries, cities, etc) for forms such as Formloom?
Not near a Mac right now, but if I remember the import only works with plain text.
As for a country list, a DuckDuckGo search for text list of countries found this.
Don’t know how accurate it is.
I so appreciate you! Thank you Doug. Will give it a try.
Hi Doug and Paul - Paul Ricci, I first would like to thank you again: all your advice has been wonderful and helped me to build a really good form.
Since for some reason the Formloom people are not replying to any of my questions, may I please put two more questions to you?
My questions are:
1) In the form item called ‘Select Menu’, is it possible to add a non-selectable value? In other words, the person filling out the form can see the value but cannot choose that value. In the screenshot example, I would like to have ‘Choose a Number’ as a value that is non selectable.
2) In Formloom 4, is it possible to put images in the form?
Thank you gentlemen!
Jimmy
