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gary.moncrieff
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
10 years ago
865 posts
Hey Guys

Having added quite a few fields thorugh form designer already and I am not have done way done I would like to suggest these usability improvements.

Click and drag to sort fields
Clone Field option
1 field type that allows multiple image uploads.
updated by @garymoncrieff: 08/05/15 03:36:19PM
gary.moncrieff
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
10 years ago
865 posts
Also would it be at all possible to group fields into tabs like you can do with the skin settings area?
gary.moncrieff
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
10 years ago
865 posts
It would also be great if we could a field type that would allow the front end user to add additional input fields, ie like this
7/6/2015 2:35:44 PM

Thoughts on all this?
brian
@brian
10 years ago
10,149 posts
gary.moncrieff:
1 field type that allows multiple image uploads.

These are good suggestions Gary - I believe if you set a number (i.e. '10') in the "options" field for a file upload field type, that will tell the core how may uploads to allow - not 100% sure as I'm pulling that from memory, but it's worth a try.


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gary.moncrieff
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
10 years ago
865 posts
Hi Brian

For the image type field options is greyed out, and for file for example if you use a number it will give you a white screen.
brian
@brian
10 years ago
10,149 posts
gary.moncrieff:
Hi Brian

For the image type field options is greyed out, and for file for example if you use a number it will give you a white screen.

Hmm.. definitely should NOT get a white screen - can you let me know what the error is in your php error log?

Thanks!


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Brian Johnson
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gary.moncrieff
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
10 years ago
865 posts
Not seeing anything in error log so it might have been a temporary server thing.

Just to add some of these field types would make developing modules easier too.

On this note if one has added fields to a module via form designer, and then packages and exports the module, do all the fields get added to the modules index.php file so that when someone installs it all the fields are set?
brian
@brian
10 years ago
10,149 posts
gary.moncrieff:
Not seeing anything in error log so it might have been a temporary server thing.

Just to add some of these field types would make developing modules easier too.

On this note if one has added fields to a module via form designer, and then packages and exports the module, do all the fields get added to the modules index.php file so that when someone installs it all the fields are set?

They are not added to the site's index.php file (the developer tools can't write into the PHP code like that) but if you check the "Export Form Designer" option when packaging a module, they are written out to a JSON file that is imported.

Let me know if that helps.


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gary.moncrieff
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
10 years ago
865 posts
Thanks yes that is good to know.

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