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• Delete - deletes the tables
• Edit - edit the form, note that you can also edit the form by clicking on its name
In the top right menu there is also the "New" button which allows you to create a new
table.
The "import" button allows you to import a CSV file to create a new database and
Fabrik table
The "parameters" button allows you to set up options used through out Fabrik
For each form in the list you have a couple of links:
• Form - edit - takes you directly to the form edit page.
• View data - Shows the data contained within the fabrik table, allowing you to
add edit and delete records.
• Published - toggles the table's published state
• View details - shows a list of the table's forms and elements.
The table list can be filtered with the use of the two fields that appear directly above the
table headings.
Deleting a Table
To delete a table check the checkbox next to its name in the table list and press the
delete button found in to top right hand menu.
You will be presented with a screen as shown above. The list below the title shows the
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tables you previously selected for deletion.
Next you have two choices to make:
• Which associated Fabrik elements you wish to delete with the table. To fully
remove the table and all its parts select "Delete tables, forms, groups and
elements
• Whether you would like to delete (a.k.a drop) the database table that the Fabrik
table was using as its data source. Note that any Joomla table with the Joomla
prefix (normally "jos_") will never be removed by Fabrik. This is to ensure you
don't remove core tables that Joomla relies upon.
Once you are happy with your selections press the delete button.
Parameters
The parameters page can be accessed by pressing the "parameters" button, located in
the table lists top right hand menu. Once clicked a pop-up window will appear as shown
in the image below
The top right of the pop-up window contains save and cancel buttons, save will save the
options you have selected and cancel will close the pop-up window without making any
changes to the parameters
• Use WYSIWYG editor for element labels - The default value is "no". If yes
selected then when you edit an element, its label field is rendered as a
WYSIWYG text editor. This allows you to format your labels with HTML (and is
also useful if you want to use the display text element with HTML formatted text)
• Alter filed types - This feature is depreciated, instead alter this option when
editing a table
• Remove tables on uninstall - this feature is not yet implemented
• Mootools version - Mootools is the JavaScript library that Joomla and Fabrik
use. This option allows you to determine which version of mootools to run.
◦ none - select this if your Joomla template already manually includes the
mootools script
◦ 1.1 - this is the standard version of mootools that Joomla uses. Use this
option for maximum compatibility
◦ 1.2 - this is the latest mootools release - use this if you want to test out
some of the more advanced features of Fabrik (packages and pick list
elements are two examples where mootools 1.2 is required)
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• Use mediabox instead of slimbox - this determines which JavaScript library
to use for the light box effects that are used by the upload element when in the
table view. A light box effect shows a in-page popup window containing the
required media. Media box has the advantage of being able to show flash, video
etc but requires mootools 1.2 to be selected for the mootools version
• Include lightbox js -
• Merge JS files - fabrik forms can include several Javascript files (one for each
element type you use) Each HTTP request for a file will increase the page load
time. Select 'yes' to ask Fabrik to collate all of these files and store them as one
file in /components/com_fabrik/js/archive. The next time the form is requested
this collated file will be used rather than each of the element files
• Compress merged JS file - In addition you can ask Fabrik to compress these
merged files. Compression will reduce the size of the requested file, but may
result in javascript errors occurring. JS Min compresses the least but will give
you more stable results than Dean Edwards packer (which is pretty much
guaranteed to not work and is there for testing purposes)
• Spoof check on form submission - defaults to 'yes' You should always leave
this as 'yes' unless you really know why! Turning it off will allow content to be
submitted to the Fabrik engine from outside the Joomla site.
This is depreciated -
you should set this setting when editing each individual form
• Use work in Progress - enables some experimental features, most notably the
packages section. Note this really is work in progress and is likely to contain
issues. If you find any please report them on the forum and we'll do our best to
resolve them for you.
• Allow fabrikDebug - if set to yes then you can append "&fabrikdebug" to your
front end URL's to output debug information about what Fabrik is doing, turn this
option off on a live site.
Importing a CSV file to create a new table
You can create a new Fabrik table by importing an CSV (comma separated variable) file.
To access this screen click on the "Import" button on the table list page. You will then
see a form as shown below:
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