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• Delete - deletes the form
• 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
form.
For each form in the list you have a couple of links:
• Published - toggles the form's published state
• If your form is set to record to a database table you will also see:
◦ Update database - checks the integrity of the the database and
matches it to your form's fields (you really shouldn't need to touch this
unless you are getting an SQL error when viewing your table's data)
◦ View data - this take you to a view of the data collected by the form.
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Editing or Adding a Form
Basic settings
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Details
• Label - The form's title which appears at the top of the form. Note you can use
the place holder text "{Add/Edit}" to dynamically include "Add" or "Edit" into the
title depending upon whether you are adding or editing a record.
• Introduction - This text appears under the form label and is used to let you
introduce the form to your users. If you want text to appear only when the user
is adding a record use the following place holder: "{new:enter your text here}" -
this will be rendered as "enter your text here". Likewise when wanting to show
text when editing a record you can use "{edit:this is an edited record}", which
will be rendered as "this is an edited record"
• Error message - this text appears at the top of the form, if it fails validation. It
should be used to explain to the user that an error has occurred and the steps to
take to remedy the error.
Buttons
• Reset button - If yes selected shows a reset button at the bottom of the form.
When pressed the form's fields revert back to their initial states
• Reset button label - The text displayed in the reset button
• Copy button - Adds a copy button to the bottom of the form. If editing an
existing record, this button will save the data as a new record. When adding a
new record this button has the same effect as the save button.
• Copy button label - The text displayed in the copy button
• Go Back button - Adds a go back button to the bottom of the form, when
pressed this button takes you back to the previous page without saving or
submitting the form.
• Go back button label - The text displayed in the go back button
• Submit label- The text displayed in the submit button (Submit buttons are
always shown at the bottom of the form)
Form Processing
• Record in database - If ticked the then form saves the data into a database
table
• Table name - If editing a form this shows you the table that the form is saving
to. If creating a new form this is a field into which you can enter the name of the
database table that you want to save the form's data to. The table is created in
the database defined by the default connection. This table name must not exist
already.
• Ajax validation - If 'yes' selected then each element is validated as its data is
changed. Validation occurs on the server, so is more secure than simple
JavaScript validation. Feed back on success or failure of the validation is shown
next to each element as a real time animated effect. Note whether set to 'yes' or
'no' validation will always occur when the form is submitted.
• Success message - The message shown when the form has been successfully
submitted. If left blank the default success message will be shown.
• Spoof Check - If set to no this will remove Joomla's spoof check from the form,
this makes the form less secure but allows for posting data into the table directly
from a URL.
• Use cookies on multipage forms - If you use a multipage form (by turning on
one of your groups' 'Page break' options), and this setting is set to 'Yes' then a
cookie will be set on the computer so that if the form is not completed and the
user comes back to add a record, the user will be returned to the last page they
were editing. Turn this setting off if the form is likely to be used in a public place
where several people will share the same computer
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Note
• Note - This is an administration feature which allows you to make a note about
the form. The content of this note is shown as a tool tip when you hover over the
form's name in the form list.
Form publishing
The publishing tab allows you to specify certain attributes of the form's creator and when
and if the form is published:
• Published - Set to yes to publish the form, set to no to unpublish the form.
Unpublished forms can not be used in the front end
• Author - The user who created the form
• Author alias - An alias to that user
• Created Date - The date the form was created on
• Start Publishing - The data and time at which to start publishing the form.
Note the form has to be published for this option to be applied
• Finish Publishing - The data and time at which to stop publishing the form.
Note the form has to be published for this option to be applied
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Groups
Groups are the equivalent of HTML field-sets. They are used to contain your form's
elements. Each element you create is assigned to a group.
Your form must have at least one group.
• Create a group with the same name as this form - When creating a new
form this check box is ticked for you. It will automatically create a group and
assign it to your form.
• Or select and add the following available groups - This will list any groups
you have previously created which have not yet been assigned to a form.
Note: in Fabrik 1 you could assign groups to multiple forms. This is no longer the
case in Fabrik 2, a group can only be assigned to one form.
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