Formidable forms or coding seperately

By: mark joon | Asked: 09/24/2024
ForumsCategory: General questionsFormidable forms or coding seperately
mark joon asked 2 weeks ago
Hi, So im starting to think formidable forms might be too limited for my assignment.   Cause i need to add the end value to woocommerce cart, which isnt possible with multi page forms.   Also need to have 1 page of the form link me to one of my other calculators where i can calculate window frames and once done it should take the end amount back to the foridable forms and paste it there automatically, which is hard in formidable forms as well it seems.   Or am i wrong? How could i have formidable forms take a value from another calculator on my website. The other calculator isnt in formidable forms.   Kind regards
3 Answers
Victor Font answered 2 weeks ago
I can tell you without any hesitation based on my experience as an enterprise software engineer, that Formidable is not limited in anyway. What limits us is not knowing how to use it or WordPress to accomplish our goals. The WordPress/Formidable Forms platform is one of the most capable enterprise application development frameworks available to drive corporate intranets and business intelligence executive dashboards. I've worked on many complex Formidable Forms projects for the U.S. Federal Government, universities, and corporate entities. Any data you can find on you site, can be pulled into Formidable if it's available in the database or in the browser DOM.
mark joon replied 2 weeks ago

Alright. How would you go about the following:

I have 4 sections that can be selected in formidable forms. 1 of them is for window frames. I got a calculator for window frames already which is really big.

But i now also want to calculate some other simpler things, for heat pumps, solar panels etc through formidable forms.

I somehow want the multipage formidable forms calculator to link to the window frame calculator from the formidable forms page about windows.

Then someone should configure all their desired windows and at the end take them back to formidable forms page about windows and paste some amounts from the window configurator into the formidable forms page about windows.

And then people should be able to continue with their formidable form calculator again where they left it.

At the end the end amount should be able to get added to woocommerce cart.

Basically how to leave formidable forms calculator when already halfway through it and link to another calculator to then take data from that other calculator back to the formidable forms calculator and being able to continue where i left off.

mark joon replied 2 weeks ago

basically:

a good question how to redirect from the form to another page and then go back with some data

is there a reliable solution?

Victor Font replied 2 weeks ago

On different pages, you pass values with query strings, or use cookies, or Ajax. There are many ways. You can also use local browser storage.

mark joon replied 2 weeks ago

Yeah but how when i need to leave the page of formidable forms. Cause i need to leave formidable forms halfway to configure windows somehwere else and then when i have done that need to get back to where i left off in formidable forms with some data from the other configurator.

mark joon replied 2 weeks ago

My developer asked specically:

only how to leave from there on a specific event. preparing the back url is my side

He searched the documentation and couldnt find it.

Victor Font replied 2 weeks ago

JavaScript/jQuery

mark joon replied 2 weeks ago

He said:

but should be a short-code to capture some form event to save its state and to a redirect.

I need a reliable handle to save the form on a specific step IF a specific checkbox is checked, and do the redirect probably with a form draft ID to be back to it later.

I prefer to use plugins API than do ****-code with custom events and so on

Is what he said. But if iits unclear il leave it as this.

Victor Font replied 2 weeks ago

Events are browser based. You must use jQuery/JavaScript. Shortcodes execute on the server before the form is rendered in the browser. There is no shortcode that can capture a browser event in real time.

mark joon answered 2 weeks ago
My developer asked specically: only how to leave from there on a specific event. preparing the back url is my side He searched the documentation and couldnt find it.
mark joon replied 2 weeks ago

He said:

but should be a short-code to capture some form event to save its state and to a redirect.

I need a reliable handle to save the form on a specific step IF a specific checkbox is checked, and do the redirect probably with a form draft ID to be back to it later.

I prefer to use plugins API than do ****-code with custom events and so on

Is what he said. But if iits unclear il leave it as this.

Walter JonesWalter Jones answered 2 weeks ago
To be honest if your paying a developer and he is asking you to ask the community of volunteers how to accomplish your project, you may want to rethink that relationship. 
mark joon replied 2 weeks ago

Hi, he didnt ask me to ask. I just did.

But i moved to his own programm instead that he created himself. It offers more flexibility for someone who cant code. I can have unlimited variables there and has all i need. Its the most flexible form Ive encountered trying many others. Again for someone who cant code, i believe formidable forms is probably better, but limited for me who cant code.

Except.that it didnt used to be a form, but with a tiny change it now is as well.

The perfect solution was under my nose all this time. Thanks anyway!

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