Mauro Santini asked 2 weeks ago
Hi everybody,
I'm new to this way of building application andI did some PHP/SQL coding in the past.
At the moment I have a page with a form in it. The page is visible to many users. The aim is for each user to see only own entries.
In the form, I've inserte the USER_ID field. The simplest idea I had was to merch this entry with something like 'login_id' (I'm making it up. In other wards my idea is to take somehow the logged in I'd and use it to filter the view.
I checked online but not much found so specific.
Can someone lead me to the right direction?
Cheers
Rob LeVine Staff answered 2 weeks ago
This is one of the basic pillars of the formidable system. The userid field seamlessly matches up with the WordPress user id. Contrary to what some people think, there's no such thing as a "formidable user" in reality. The user lives in WordPress and Formidable accesses it. So, all that being said, when you go into the Form settings and set it to be "Allow front-end editing of entries" and you set the "Role required to edit one's own entries" to "Logged-in Users". Check this section for more details - https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/set-up-front-end-editing/
Mauro Santini
replied 2 weeks ago Great help.
The pointed out documentation answers few questions beyond the original one.
One issue still. I followed the documentation and tried the entry edit options.
The standard editing works like a charm but can't make it to work the Edit in-place, nor the simple neither the edit/delete options. to be more precise, the delete itself works, when I select Edit it turns to cancel but nothing happen that make me update the entry. In the published view I still see the html code
the [id] are interpreted but changed to number but this is as much as it goes
What do I miss in the loop?
Cheers
I suggest uploading some annotated screenshots, including the HTML in your view, where you set up the in-place editing. I'm not following what you're explaining, although I guess that you have the frm_container_[id] or something similar in the wrong place.
Mauro Santini
replied 2 weeks ago I'm with you that I have something in the wrong place.
I'm not at my desk to update with screenshot.
At the same time, I can say that I tried to follow the documentation but this section might b a little confusing. Do u think there is also somewhere else where to check how to properly insert this code in the form?
Thanks for your time. I'll revert soon
It's all about the trial an error. For the the edit-in-place has been one of the toughest things to get right and I just kept trying things that seemed like they should work and when they did, I realized why all the other attempts were not working :).
Mauro Santini
replied 2 weeks ago This is at least a relief that is not just me not being able to follow the documentation 🙂
Said that, it seams to me that from the standard view build page, it is difficult to get any html code being interpreted as such rather then simple txt.
In my view, by instance, there are 2 fields which are IMG and I'm struggling to insert a link to a new page that open these pics/document
R u by chance aware of any possibility ot tweak the view build code for specific view?
Cheers
Absolutely anything you can do in HTML (and jQuery, etc) you can do in a view (at the end of the day, a view is simply rendering a bunch of HTML to display in your browser). I can only guess that what you're running into the the Visual vs. Code tab in the view. When you click in the Page Content area to add content, it opens up the "Edit List Page Content" modal. There are two tabs "Visual" and "Code". I hate working in the Visual tab and can't say I've ever found a reason to do it. There used to be an option somewhere to not even show the Visual tab though it appears to be gone now.
Mauro Santini
replied 3 days ago <p>After a little of research and help from Formidable Support, at the moment I managed to make it work ONLY if, creating a table, I do in the classic view and insert the actual code from the HOWTO and create the table myself with a little of CSS. Mine is a ery preliminary project where I have to see the feasibility of the work therefore style at the moment is secondary. Thanks for help and I hope this answer will help someone else too Cheers</p>
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