Multi-page forms: best practices?

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Chris Detmer	Monday 12 November 2007 1:42:31 pm I'm building a large form that consists of multiple pages of fields which a user will step through. There will also be an option to save the current information as a draft and complete it at a later time. Currently I am loading all the pages in separate divs, hiding all but the first until the user clicks "continue", and submitting the form all at once at the end. I'm looking for suggestions on best practices, specifically in dealing with session information, drafts and recalling the saved information. Any insight would be helpful. - Chris
gabriele francescotto	Monday 12 November 2007 11:04:35 pm I had several times the need to create long surveys; the approch I followed was the <i>divide et impera</i>, dividing the survey in different modules, and creating different ez objects per each of them. I also created a folder (unique for all the users), customizing the template to guide the user in the different actions I need from him, and in particular: - create new objects - modifing existing objects using ez roles, you can control perfectly the right of the users in this folder. you can see a shot of an application I made recently: http://up.opencontent.it/powos.jpg www.opencontent.it via Verdi 19, 38100 Trento
Karl Latiss	Monday 19 November 2007 9:22:21 pm You may also want to check out form builder by designIT. http://www.designit.com.au/solutions/ez_publish_form_builder Atvert Systems http://www.atvert.com.au
/dev/null	Tuesday 20 November 2007 6:54:59 am Or support the Open Funding's eZ Survey project, <i>http://ez.no/developer/open_funding/open_funding_projects/ez_survey#msg152783</i> They seem to have the very best ideas when it comes to some of these ... another related if not similar thread in the forum is <i>http://ez.no/developer/forum/setup_design/content_class_attribute_description</i> <i>/dev/null</i> eZpedia community documentation project: http://ezpedia.org