Hi,

I have a form with 10 questions and one hidden textbox

I have enabled SQL as a default value for the hidden textbox, the value (from the querystring) is either 1 or 0 when the form loads. What I want is to show only the first 5 questions when the textbox value =0. And the second 5 questions when the textbox=1.

The question events only fire after a postback. How can I cause it to get/read the value from the hidden textbox and show either the first 5 or the second 5 questions?

thanks

thanks for answering Jim.

It's not so much an issue about that textbox. To explain: There is this catalogue on the site with various products in different categories. When the customer clicks an item they are interested in they will be sent to the page with the dynamic form. Depending on the category item they have picked, they will see some questions in the form, whilst other questions remain hidden.

Example: When their choice is to buy something from the clothing category, they need to answer the size and colour, so these questions in the form need to show.

So the when the customer clicks an item in the catalogue, the ItemID and the CategoryID will be passed on to the url of the Dynamic Form page.

How can I make the form show/hide questions depending on these 2 values from the querystring?

I hope the question is clear

Thanks again

Hi Chad,

I've set up a Demo on beta springs

http://www.betasprings.com/Valuefro...fault.aspx

Obviously this demo doesn't work because it needs the table with Catalogue items in the database. I got the DSParam1 working on my local DNN site though.

Where I get stuck is at the Question Events setup.  The question that will initiate the event of hiding or showing following questions basically does not exist. The trigger should already happen at Page Load where it can read the value ('answer') from the querystring ('DSParam2')

Thanks

Hi Chad,

Getting there ... The hidden field CatId shows, but it needs the 'initiation response' to be activated too to make it work.

Looking forward to the 2.7.1 release

thanks for your work

Chad,

Any idea yet, when the 2.7.1 patch will be available?

Jim

Hi Chad,

Here's what I did:

- Hidden textbox (CatId) with value 1

- Question Event1 :  when CatId=1 then hide last question

Now this only works when there is a postback. So for example I've set up a second Question event:

- Question Event2: pick a color and some other question will be hidden.

The moment this second question gets triggered by choosing a radiobutton-color ALSO the first question event gets triggered.

Would it be possible to have this first event -with the hidden textbox -start to fire when the page loads? In the websites I'm building the value of this hidden textbox comes from the querystring. So it would be great when this first question event fires the very moment the form opens/page loads.

Thanks

Sean

Chad,

Just to clarify...with this new feature can I hide/display questions based on a querystring parameter (when the page loads)? 

Troy,

Hi. Yes from what I understand of what you are wanting the new 2.7.4 release/patch/quick enhancements release should allow for this. We have been planning to release this over the past week and should by the end of the weekend (update downloads and update patches and hot fixes on Snowcovered).

Anyway... I created a quick demo of this on Beta Springs. We are passing it the userID from DSParam1, we are using the SQL binding feature to pull in the user information, and if the Username is set to 'Admin' which is a hidden field on the form, then it will show the Address field. The Address field is initially hidden until forced visible by event.

So for example, passing it the UserID of 1 doesn't show the address field, but passing the UserID of 2 does show the address field.

Question Event w/ Hidden Field and Querystring - Hide Field

Question Event w/ Hidden Field and Querystring - Unhide Field

Is this what you are needing?

-Chad

Hi everybody,

I actually need it to for one of my project.

One question : Can we download this patch at this time or is it still in development ?

DevPCI Team.

It is available now...details.

All,

I am not sure if this is documented anywhere or not but I thought I would pass this info along to save you some time if you can't get this to work. Your Initial/Postback Question that you select in your Question Event (that displays or hides the question) HAS to be above (question sort order) the Affected Question you select in your Question Event.

Example that works (based on Chad's demo above):
question order...
Email
UserName
Address

Unhide Field - Question Event
Initial/Postback Question: UserName
Initiation Response: Address

Example that does not work:
question order...
Email
Address
UserName

Unhide Field - Question Event
Initial/Postback Question: UserName
Initiation Response: Address


Troy

Hi! That is a very interesting feature.

I tried to use it as a language switch, but it only works if the name of the parameter is DSParam1 or DSParam2. If I tried to refer $(language) in the Initial SQL statement it does not work.

Is it possible to use another name for the parameter DSParam1 or is that a fixed name?

Hi Tim, the events are NOT triggered by this option. This was my first test.
I created a form with a combobox. The combobox got question events to show/hide other fields. I tried the "retrieve from query string" option but nothing happened.

But would be a really nice feature!