Cannot get round form feedback

Monday 25 February 2008 10:51:25 am

Hi Claire;

See this:
http://ez.no/developer/articles/how_to_create_ez_publish_forms
http://serwatka.net/en/blog/ez_publish_3_8_new_custom_edit_handler

Grettings

Wednesday 27 February 2008 4:12:04 am

I finally made it work, using a default form that is referenced in this topic
http://ez.no/developer/forum/setup_design/problem_with_contact_form/re_problem_with_contact_form__4

The form code is in http://zev.ez.no/svn/extensions/ezwebin/trunk/packages/ezwebin_extension/ezextension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/override/templates/full/feedback_form.tpl

{* Feedback form - Full view *}

<div class="border-box">
<div class="border-tl"><div class="border-tr"><div class="border-tc"></div></div></div>
<div class="border-ml"><div class="border-mr"><div class="border-mc float-break">

<div class="content-view-full">
    <div class="class-feedback-form">

        <div class="attribute-header">
            <h1>{$node.name|wash()}</h1>
        </div>

        {include name=Validation uri='design:content/collectedinfo_validation.tpl'
                 class='message-warning'
                 validation=$validation collection_attributes=$collection_attributes}

        <div class="attribute-short">
                {attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.data_map.description}
        </div>
        <form method="post" action={"content/action"|ezurl}>

        <h4>{$node.data_map.sender_name.contentclass_attribute.name}</h4>
        <div class="attribute-sender-name">
                {attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.data_map.sender_name}
        </div>

        <h4>{$node.data_map.email.contentclass_attribute.name}</h4>
        <div class="attribute-email">
                {attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.data_map.email}
        </div>

        <h4>{$node.data_map.subject.contentclass_attribute.name}</h4>
        <div class="attribute-subject">
                {attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.data_map.subject}
        </div>

        <h4>{$node.data_map.message.contentclass_attribute.name}</h4>
        <div class="attribute-message">
                {attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.data_map.message}
        </div>

        <div class="content-action">
            <input type="submit" class="defaultbutton" name="ActionCollectInformation" value="{"Send form"|i18n("design/ezwebin/full/feedback_form")}" />
            <input type="hidden" name="ContentNodeID" value="{$node.node_id}" />
            <input type="hidden" name="ContentObjectID" value="{$node.object.id}" />
            <input type="hidden" name="ViewMode" value="full" />
        </div>
        </form>

    </div>
</div>

</div></div></div>
<div class="border-bl"><div class="border-br"><div class="border-bc"></div></div></div>
</div>

So I changed the blocks

 <h4>{$node.data_map.subject.contentclass_attribute.name}</h4>
        <div class="attribute-subject">
                {attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.data_map.subject}
        </div>

to display the properties of my own object and my css classes, but nothing else, and it worked.
Now I can see the data in the admin panel, setup/information collection/name_of_my_instance -> click on the link under "number of collections"

I couldn't really figure out the difference between my previous code and this one but I have to say as it was working I didn't try to hard ;)

Another thing that happened was that I had changed an attribute of the class AFTER having instantiated my form, I also made a few template changes and I was getting the same behaviour you are talking about. So I can't swear the change in the class was the reason, but when I put my old class back it just worked again...

Hope this is helpfull to you Yudi

Vicente it was kind of you to try to help but to send me the link I said I used as a model seems like you're not really reading, don't you think? ;)

Thursday 11 February 2010 3:24:36 am

[POSSIBLE SOLUTION]
Hi,

I'm pretty sure this problem occurs when a form template does not include all the information collector attributes for the object class. (I've done a simple test and both reproduced and then removed the problem).

For example, assume the form object class contains the attributes "your name" and "your email", both tagged as "information collectors". If the fcustom orm template does not actually generate a value for one (or both) of these attributes, then I suspect the form-submit process fails, leading to the problem outlined in the posts above (i.e. the same form just reloads again, although the URL is changed to a /content/action one).This would also explain why the problem might not be identifiable from the template code examples above.

Therefore, I suggest the following:

- Review your custom class definition (eg "My Custom Form" class) via the admin interface / setup tab, carefully noting all the information collectors

- Make sure your form template actually contains those information collectors (watch out for typo's).

I suspect this is a tricky problem to spot because the PHP scripts called by the content/action don't actually return an error message when the expected attributes are missing. Perhaps this is shown in a log file somewhere - I've not checked fully.

Hope that helps.

-Paul