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1. 0 0 0 0 0 getTime var today new Date today setHours 0 today setMinutes 0 today setSeconds 0 today setMilliseconds 0 today today getTime if vDate lt today if message message element name faild in my test n return message return This example is for the js calendar default date pattern MM DD YYYY therefore the javascript above might be slightly different for other patterns for instance german Also note CALENDARITEMNAME has to be replaced by your calendar item s name This is automatically done by clicking Generate Code Framework 6 74 Visibility Rules Don t Display in IE 130 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms I have a form with conditional visibility rules and it works fine in FireFox and Chrome but the rules don t work in Internet Explorer 7 or 8 Please help In some cases the problem originates with template code For example a number of templates from RocketThemes have an advanced option to customize the look of form elements Try disabling that feature in the Template Manager section and see if that corrects the issue Thanks to user gtmaniak for the suggestion 6 75 Limit the Number of Submissions Is there a way to limit the number of forms that can be submitted This would come in handy if I needed to limit the number of entries for a contest or registration for an event etc Yes you can do t
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3. None 1D Submitted IP Provider Title Name Payment TXID PaymentTXdate PaymentTestaccount Payment Download Tries Viewed Exported Archived 2 2011 11 12 21 37 43 69 65 67 111 nknown leb Design Quote Free_Quote 00 h x Q 5 3 2012 03 21 08 21 36 69 198 141 142 o o o 4 2012 03 22 13 57 36 69 198 141 142 Unk 5 2012 05 09 22 04 01 24 233 176 94 o ri s 6 2012 06 04 22 28 33 72 167 191 8 o o o Display 5 x 12345678910 NextG gt End Page 1 of 630 PDF CSV and XML Buttons Allows you to create files of the selected records All Form Viewed exported and Achieved Buttons Allow you to switch the view of the records to the corresponding button to see if the items were used or not for the selected buttons 4 1 1 Manage Errors Issues You May Receive CSV Exports Aren t Opening Correctly am trying to export records from within BreezingForms to Excel in CSV format but when the file opens the columns aren t formatted correctly How can fix it If you are using Excel 2003 you should use the semicolon as the separator If you are using 2007 you should use the comma as a separator During the export instead of opening the file in Excel immediately choose the option to save it instead Once saved go to the file directory where you stored it and rename the file from FILENAME csv to FILENAME txt Then open the TXT file in Excel When you try to open it you should see a Text Import Wizard dialog box The field
4. hacked together a few pieces of code and came up with this IT WORKS Note am using it in Quick Mode In this case the table that I m pulling from has the user s email address in it this grabs the email address of the current user and finds that email in the table am querying then populates the field values of the form am using it to populate the mobile phone and home phone of the user in a contact form Before Form Piece Get the lead info fo the current user Sthis gt execPieceByName ff InitLib global Sdatabase Srecord my Sid Smy gt email Sdatabase gt setQuery SELECT FROM jos_ your_ table name WHERE email Sid row Sdatabase gt loadObjectList Srecord Srow 0 FORM VALUES Name lt php Suser amp JFactory getUser return Suser gt name gt Email lt php Suser amp JFactory getUser return Suser gt email gt 99 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Home Phone lt php global Srecord return Srecord gt hphone gt Mobile Phone lt php global Srecord return Srecord gt mobile gt If you just want to populate the name and email then you can skip the Before Form Piece and just use the values for Name and Email 6 34 Auto Populate a Select List from Database Table Is it possible to automatically populate a select list from a database table Yes this is p
5. GB com_breezingforms menu ini Unzipped file admin languages en GB admin en GB com_breezingforms sys ini Upload to JoomlaRoot administrator language en GB en GB com_breezingforms sys ini Unzipped file from admin languages en GB public en GB com_breezingforms ini Upload to JoomlaRoot language en GB en GB com_breezingforms ini 28 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 3 5 6 Warning Invalid Argument Supplied Installation Error Q After installing BreezingForms on my server got an error message that says Warning Invalid argument supplied for foreach in C Joomla libraries joomla database database mysql php on line 678 Warning Invalid argument supplied for foreach in C Joomla libraries joomla database database mysql php on line 678 Please check your Joomla Global Configuration settings to see which SQL version you are using If it is set to mysql try changing it tomysqli or vice versa and see if that makes a difference 3 6 Upgrading to Version 1 7 5 from Version 1 7 1 Build 730 to Version 1 7 3 Upgrading to Version 1 7 5 from Version 1 7 1 Build 730 to Version 1 7 3 To upgrade to BreezingForms 1 7 5 from BreezingForms 1 7 1 Build 730 through Version 1 7 3 unzip the upgrade file and then follow the instructions as noted below 1 IMPORTANT Save and backup your Joomla installation files and database before upgrading 2 If you have any custom QuickMode themes PDF templates Email templates or an
6. In the Create Code Framework textbox enter the following code function ff Choose action element action switch action case change if element value Page 1 location href http YourFirstLink com lse if element value Page 2 location href http YourSecondLink com 133 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms else if element value Page 3 location href http YourThirdLink com break default switch Choose action Remember to replace the location href URLS with your actual page links NOTE If you name your element something other than Choose then you will need to change the first and last line of the code to match your element name by replacing the ELEMENTNAME text to the actual name of your element function ff ELEMENTNAME action element action and at the end of the code _ELEMENTNAME action Now click on the SAVE PROPERTIES button at the bottom of the screen to save the element you just created and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself Test it out you should now have a dropdown list that will jump to whatever page you want This same principle can be applied to sections too As long as you identify the unique ID number assigned to the sect
7. 177 gt The element ID for the phone field is ff elem1177 Make a note of the ELEMENT ID for each element that you are using masked input for Now go back to BreezingForms to your form s properties gt Advanced tab gt More Options gt Form pieces In the Before Form section click on the CUSTOM button A text box will open In that box enter the following code echo lt script src includes js maskedinput src jquery maskedinput js type text javascript gt lt script gt echo lt script gt JQuery function S S elem1176 mask 99 99 9999 S elem1177 mask 999 999 9999 S elem1178 mask 999 99 9999 bye lt script gt md NOTE If you upload the maskedinput files and folders to a different directory then you will need to change the location in the script src above fog You can then replace th lement IDs from the example above with your own element IDs setting the mask format as needed Refer to the f Input Mask documentation to see what formats are available Now click on the SAVE button at the bottom of the screen to save your Form Piece changes Then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself Now test your form it should work 138 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 6 88 Could Not Instantiate Mail Func
8. 555 555 5555 break default Phone action Now click on the SAVE PROPERTIES button at the bottom of the screen to save the element you just created Then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself Now test it just like magic you should have some disappearing text 6 93 Allow User to Edit Form 141 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Can a user edit their form A user can edit their form if 1 They are logged in when they complete the form and 2 Inthe menu item where you connect the form you set the Submission editable by user parameter to YES 6 94 Captcha Not Stopping Spam I have Captcha implemented but it isn t stopping spam from getting through Help Here is something you can try 1 Create a new hidden input element as the first element of your form NAME yourfirstname VALUE empty don t put anything in the value field 2 In your form s properties gt Advanced tab gt More Options gt Submit Pieces gt Before Submit add the following code Sthis gt execPieceByName ff InitLib if ff getSubmit yourfirstname exit The regular bots will try to fill in this element and before form submit The code above will exit the application if this element is not empty which would result in the submission not being stored 6 95 Copy Element Value to
9. action case click if element value Please write your message here element value break case blur if element value element value Please write your message here break default message action Make sure that the function name ff message action element action contains the name of the element as entered in the NAME field of the properties tab In our example we named it message 140 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms If you change the name to something other than message then you will need to change the function name to match it For example if you name the element Phone then that first line of the actionscript should read ff Phone action element action Also the element value in the code above must be the same as the value you put in the VALUE field on the element s properties tab In our example th lement value is entered as Please write your message here which matches the value that w ntered earlier If you change the value in the element s properties to 555 535375555 then your script assuming it is now a Phone element instead of a message element would change to Code function ff Phone action element action switch action case click if element value 555 555 5555 element value break case blur if element value element value
10. linebreaks or other formatting If you choose the NO button the Email will be sent in plain text format and the layout that you create will be retained in the Email including whatever linebreaks you might include Once you have made the necessary changes scroll down to the bottom of the frame and click on the SAVE button You will then be returned to the main form screen Finally click the SAVE button in the upper right hand corner of the screen to ensure that your changes are saved 4 6 Install Additional QuickMode Themes How do I choose a template for my form I would like to create a form just like your demo s After unzipping the main breezingforms_VERSION NUMBER_UNZIP_FIRST zip file you will see a folder called quickmode_additional_themes Within it you will find numerous new form themes for QuickMode To install a theme for QuickMode simply login to your site using your FTP client and upload each desired folder to media breezingforms themes The theme s will then be accessible in your forms Open up the form you are working with and go to the Advanced tab There you will see a dropdown list of available themes To use the one from that example scroll down to the Plastic Light Blue theme and choose it Then click the 53 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Save Properties button to save your change to the properties and finally click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to sa
11. 3 You can now create a quick Email template using a simple tagging system When you click on the Custom button a new section will appear as follows Custom Email Subject a Edit Erra J default i custom Name label Name value Send as HTML No Yes email label email value message label message value W All fields that are in use in your form will be displayed in this column Click on one of the bracketed links in the left hand column and it will then be displayed in the textbox on the right Within that textbox you can manipulate the layout as you wish 52 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Name label Name value email label email value a message label message value Send as HTML No Click on one of the bracketed links in the left hand femail label column It Ny will then Yes Name label Name value email value appear in the textbox on the right Once there you can manipulate the layout as needed For example add a colon between the label and value or increase line spacing etc message label message value If you choose the YES button to send as HTML then you can wrap the labels and values within paragraphs use different fonts and colors etc In fact if you specify that it should be sent as HTML but don t use HTML tags in the message the Email sent will be displayed without
12. In fact if you specify that it should be sent as HTML but don t use HTML tags in the message the Email sent will be displayed without linebreaks or other formatting If you choose the NO button the Email will be sent in plain text format and the layout that you create will be retained in the Email including whatever linebreaks you might include Once you have the layout done the way you want you can go to the Mailback Email tab to customize your settings there 50 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms TIP You might want to save your changes before moving on If so scroll down to the bottom of the frame and click on the SAVE button You will then be returned to the main form screen Click the SAVE button in the upper right hand corner of the screen to ensure that your changes are saved 4 5 5 MAILBACK EMAILS The screen for Mailback Emails is almost identical to the one for Admin Emails The only difference is that the Email Address dropdown and Email To textfield are not included BreezingForms Edit Form Settings Admin Emails Mailback Emails MailChimp Scripts Form pieces Submit pieces Email Notification Report Nonempty values Attachment No Alternative From Email Alternative From Name Custom Email Subject BEU default custom Name label Name value Send as HTML o No Yes email label email value message label messaqe value Email Notifica
13. LABEL can be named the same as the original field The NAME should be a unique name You can either leave it with the name automatically assigned by the extension or give it a new unique name not already in use elsewhere on the form 5 In the CONNECT WITH dropdown choose the field that you want to pull the summary information from It will list all of your fields so it is easy to choose 6 Each time you add an element click on SAVE PROPERTIES 7 When you are finished adding your summary fields remember to click the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen PWNER 6 18 Step 2 Loop on Installation After installing the component I am stuck in step 2 whatever I do it keeps bringing back that step and am in kind of a loop That s a permission issue Please create an empty file on your computer called facileforms config php 6 18 1 Build 730 amp Higher Upload this file using your FTP client to Icomponents com_breezingforms 6 19 Prefilled form data name and email For all my forms want to automatically fill in the name and email fields with those of the currently logged in user QUICKMODE You can apply php in your fields directly So just add this into the value of your textfield that is supposed to be the name lt php return JFactory getUser gt get name gt and for the email field value lt php return JFactory getUser gt get email gt 87
14. Name element on the form is actually called name minus the quotes in the NAME field underneath the label and that the Email element on the form is actually called email minus the quotes in the NAME field underneath that element s label Also remember to change youradminemail yourdomain com in the last line of code to your actual admin email address 4 Once you have edited and copied the code go to Form Properties gt Advanced Tab and click on the More Options link 5 Goto the SUBMIT PIECES tab to the END SUBMIT section and click on the CUSTOM radio button That will open a text area into which you should paste the code that you just edited and copied 6 Click on the SAVE icon at the bottom of that screen to save the code you just added 92 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 7 Once back at the base page of your form click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself 8 Test your form to see if it works IF YOUR NAME FIELD IS SPLIT INTO FIRST NAME AND LAST NAME If you have your name field separated into two fields first and last name then the code will need to be adjusted slightly In that case use the following 1 In your form s properties make sure that the Mail Notification checkbox is UNCHECKED 2 Copy the code below global SmosConfig mailfrom mosConfig fromname my Sthis gt execPieceByName ff InitLib e Strom f
15. Sthis gt record_ id JFactory getDBO gt query End create user 83 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 6 12 Captcha Change Colors etc Can I change the background color of the captcha Yes you can You can make a number of changes to the captcha settings here In Build 730 and higher Icomponents com_breezingforms images captcha securimage_show php In Build 729 and lower Icomponents com_facileforms images captcha securimage_show php 6 13 Creating a Two Column Form I need a form with two columns Can you tell me how to do that Highlight the page in the form tree on the left hand side of the page Click on the NEW SECTION button and set the properties as follows Type Normal Display Type All in a Row Title Section 1 Rename as you see fit this is for illustration purposes Section Name You can name this yourself or leave it with the name automatically assigned by BreezingForms Note that if you rename it that the name should include only letters numbers and underscores Special characters and spaces should NOT be used Now highlight the Section 1 that you just created and click on the NEW SECTION button again This time set the properties to Type Fieldset Display Type Wrap after each element Title Section 1A Rename as you see fit this is for illustration purposes Section Name You can name this yourself or leave it with the name automatically
16. TYPE Textfield LABEL Repeat Email NAME email_repeat The remaining fields Value Size Max length and hint are optional Leave the Validation section at the bottom UNCHECKED There is no need to add a validation rule or type to this Email field because it will automatically be connected to the rule in the previous field IMPORTANT NOTE If you change the name of the first textfield from email to something else let s say contact for example then in the second textfield you will need to change the name field to contact_repeat The word in front of _repeat MUST match the name given to the first field 85 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 6 15 Height of Textareas It seems the height of textareas is ignored I tried to set my textarea to 5 rows but nothing happens It still shows 3 rows How do fix it Use values like 100px or 50 as you would in CSS 6 16 Limiting the Number of Characters in a Field to an Exact Amount Do you know how I can make the phone number required 10 digits If possible want the visitor to be able to only enter 10 digits in the phone number field or the form cannot be submitted It definitely is possible to require the phone number field to be ten digits Here is how to do it e Go to your form and then to the text element that you are using for your Telephone field To e work for this example it would be best if you give the element the name telephone without e qu
17. all users logged in or not 124 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Name Telephone Option Option2 Option3 Email Check here to accept terms Send Copy to My Email eescessese Repeat Password Phrase Match Upload File Browse jc For the purpose of this example in the NAME field underneath the label field in each section s properties let s name the sections as follows Section 1 name section1 Section 2 name section2 All of the following code assumes that you are using these two section names Go to your form s properties gt Advanced Tab gt More Options and click on the SCRIPTS tab In the Initialization Script section click on the CUSTOM radio button Now click on the words CREATE CODE FRAMEWORK An alert will pop up that says Create code framework for init now Existing code will be appended Click on OK In the textarea that opens you should see code that looks something like this function ff FORMNAME init _FORMNAME init After the first curly bracket in the second line of code click ENTER to go to a new line Then paste in the code below lt php if JFactory getUser gt get id 0 gt 0 125 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms echo function mytoggler fToggleFields off section sectionl fToggleFields on section section2 b bfDeactivateField b
18. appear that says Create code framework for init now Existing code will be appended Click OK 5 Atextarea will appear that looks something like this function ff YourFormName_ init 147 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms YourFormName_ init After the first curly bracket add ff getElementByName bla readOnly true So the final code should look something like this function ff YourFormName_ init ff getElementByName bla readOnly true YourFormName_ init Remember to change the bla in the getElementByName line to the actual name of your textfield element Also the YourFormName text in the first and last lines should actually match the name of your Bld form This should happen automatically after clicking on Create code Fa framework 6 103 Captcha Image Not Displayed I added a captcha to my form but the captcha image won t display Help Are you using Akeeba Admin Tools by any chance If so please try this suggestion we received from another user In Akeeba Admin Tools the following Exceptions have to be put in components com_breezingforms images captcha securimage_show php components com_breezingforms images captcha securimage php 148
19. b fDeactivateField fToggleFields on section sectionl fToggleFields on section section2 b bfDeactivateField b b fDeactivateField The code once complete should look something like this function ff FORMNAME init lt php if JFactory getUser gt get id 0 gt 0 126 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms echo function mytoggler fToggleFields off section sectionl ToggleFields on section section2 b bfDeactivateField b b fDeactivateField ToggleFields on section sectionl b bfDeactivateField bfToggleFields on section section2 b fDeactivateField _FORMNAME init Next go to the FORM PIECES tab In the AFTER FORM section click on the CUSTOM radio button In the text area that opens enter the following code return lt script gt JQuery document ready function mytoggler 127 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 3 lt script gt tT r Now click on the SAVE icon in the lower right hand corner of the screen to save the script and form piece changes that you made Once back on the form properties page click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself 6 69 Calculating Textfiel
20. be confirmed by timing the attempted installation time Typically this is set to 60 seconds nd the script may take longer than this to install To correct it change the php ini file to have max_execution_time 120 max_input_time 120 Thanks to Andy500 for the great tip 101 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 6 37 Error jq is not defined My multi page form won t advance to the next page When I check the Firefox error console I see this message Error jq is not defined What do I do To fix this you need to reinstall the script library To do so follow these steps Go to Components gt BreezingForms gt Configuration Click on PACKAGE INSTALLER at the bottom of the screen Look in the list for stdlib english and put a check in the box to the left of it Click on the UNINSTALL PACKAGES icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen An alert will appear asking if you re sure you really want to uninstall the package It s okay be brave Do it You ll now be back at the PACKAGE INSTALLER screen Unzip the attached zip file and save the included stdlib english xml file to somewhere on your hard drive 7 Now we want to reinstall that package By default the radio button for UPLOAD PACKAGE FILE 1 FROM CLIENT amp INSTALL should be selected 8 Browse to the directory on your hard drive where you stored that xml file and select it Highlight the file and click OPEN or double click the file a
21. be updated with the correct sums Thanks to DavidLGCrawford for this solution 6 40 Injecting CSS Files into a Form Can I call an existing stylesheet for my form Or a new one that I ve created Yes you can To do so echo the link rel inclusion as a BEFORE FORM piece Form Properties gt Advanced Tab gt More Options Link gt Form Pieces Then in the BEFORE FORM section click on the CUSTOM button and add the following code JFactory getDocument gt addStyleSheet JURI root PATH TOCSS Then click on the SAVE icon at the bottom of that screen and then once back at the form properties screen click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen 105 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 6 41 Dropdown Lists How do I create a dropdown list A dropdown list in BreezingForms is defined as a SELECT LIST element In QuickMode add a Select List element to your form In the List field you will see O Title l valuel O Title 2 value2 O Title 3 value3 The 0 tells BreezingForms not to select the field If you wanted it to be selected upon form load then change it to 1 The Title is the label that will show up in the dropdown box The Value is what will be stored in the database and or sent in the Email message Let s say you want to add Please Select or Choose at the top of the dropdown list To do that add an extra line befor
22. enter the path or URL to the file you are uploading Then click on the Install Package icon locate at the top of the right hand side of the page e Package Installation Report Once installed you will be directed to a Package Installation Report which contains a summary of the information provided by the package creator e Complete Installation Click on Continue to complete the installation Your form should now be accessible through the Manage Forms link 4 4 Manage Forms Quickmode Breezingforms Quick mode is the easiest mode for beginners yet powerful enough for advanced users Combined with a easy to use interface and predefined scripts it makes making forms a breeze Getting Started with Forms 38 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Getting started with forms in QuickMode Create Forms QuickMode Using QuickMode you will be able to create a form quickly and easily Let s start by walking you step by step through the creation of a simple one page job application form To begin login to your Joomla account and go to Components gt BreezingForms gt Manage Forms Administration Site Extensions Users Menus Content Help Components Admin Tools Akeeba Backup Quick Icons amp Banners gt a Manage Records a Contacts gt e Manage Forms EasyBlog gt Ge Manage Scripts Add New Article Article Manage ME extplorer i Manage Pieces 2 Freestyle Support Por
23. except that it will be executed after a submission has been stored All of these tabs above share the same concept Library You can choose a predefined script piece from the library While each item of the library can be packaged itself Means you can create your own library items and re use them in other forms Custom You can add code directly in place for one of the actions above For custom scripts it is required that you click create code framework first in order to have a javascript function skeleton where you place your code into while for pieces you can start writing your custom code without the need to create a function Things you always want to use in a Piece PHP ff_getSubmit FIELDNAME gt will return the value of a field ff_getSubmit FIELDNAME FF_ARRAY gt will return the value of a field as array required if you want access to values of a group like a checkbox As soon as you use things like ff_getSubmit in your piece put this as first command into your custom code this gt execPieceByName ff_InitLib Things you always want to use in a Script Javascript ff_getElementByName FIELDNAME gt will return the DOM object of the field ff_getElementByName FIELDNAME value gt will return the value of that field 71 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms The same is applicable for scripts that you use for validations actions and initializations on field le
24. in Easy Mode How do I create a calendar in EasyMode For the calendar in EasyMode you need to create a textfield first which will end up holding the date that is picked For this example let s name it date Then you need to create the calendar element In the options it has a field that says Connect With Field name Enter date in that field Then click on the Update button Now you need to make sure that you have added a submit or next page button whichever is appropriate that has an action script assigned to it The settings should be Type Library Actions Click should be checked Script FF ff_validate_submit if it is a one page form or Script FF ff_validate_nextpage if it is a multi page form Then click the Update button and then save the form Now you should see the date picker in your form 6 97 PHP Error Allowed Memory Size am getting an error on my site not all the time but quite often The website encountered an error while retrieving URL It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly Here are some suggestions Reload this web page later 143 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms HTTP Error 500 Internal Server Error An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfill the request How can fix this Take a look at Help gt System Info gt PHP Information and see what the memory_limit is set to If it is only 8MB
25. is Please see the attached PDF file for complete details 114 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Click Here to Down 6 54 Form Text Won t Save I am trying to save text in a page but no matter what I do it won t save Why not This happens with sections too Are you using JCE as your text editor If so there is currently a known bug that we are trying to resolve but switching to TinyMCE has worked for the users that have reported the issue to us When creating text there are three things that you need to do in order to save it 1 Click on the SAVE icon at the bottom of the text entry WYSIWIG screen 2 Click on the SAVE PROPERTIES button to save the form element 3 Click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the text itself 6 55 Is There a Way to Add Text to My Form Is there a way to add text to my form I don t want to put it in an element but I need it placed beside or underneath it Yes you can add free text in BreezingForms within a page or a section At the page level your text would appear above the form To do so click on the Page title in the lefthand tree and then click on the EDIT link to the right of the word INTRO in the right hand properties Within the editor that opens you can add HTML images etc To place text elsewhere in the form create a new section where you want the text to be placed and then click on the EDIT link that will appear in
26. left hand section you can add the text with hyperlink by clicking on the EDIT link in the section properties Then click SAVE at the bottom of the screen to save the text and then click SAVE PROPERTIES to save the page element In the second section the right hand section you can add the checkbox element In the Advanced tab check the HIDE LABEL checkbox so that only the checkbox shows Then click SAVE PROPERTIES to save the changes you made to the checkbox element Don t forget to click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself 6 43 PDF Exports Form Order When I export to PDF in the back end the fields appear in alphabetical order need them to appear in the same order as the form itself How do I do that For technical reasons it is not possible to have the fields appear in the same order as your form This is due to the fact that the same export function is used for ALL forms stored on your system As a result there is no other way to handle this than by having them ordered alphabectially You might be able to find an Excel macro on the web that could help you with re ordering the fields on demand 6 44 Export Form as PDF to Admin Email Is there a way for me to export the form as a PDF document to send to the admin Email Yes you sure can do that Go to the form s properties gt Advanced tab gt More Options In the Attachment dropdown at the bottom select th
27. name if Stimestamp path date YmdHis if file exists path Sthis gt status FF STATUS UPLOAD FAILED Sthis gt message BFText PROCESS FILEEXISTS recurn 1 94 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms if Replace it with if Stimestamp time path date YmdHis _ path baseDir S time path Suserfile name if file _exists path Sthis gt status _FF_STATUS UPLOAD FAILED Sthis gt message BFText PROCESS FILEEXISTS return ff at Ye Next find line 3916 flash upload path SbaseDir Suserfile name if Srow gt flagl path date YmdHis if file exists path Srnd md5 mt_rand 0 mt_getrandmax path baseDir Srnd userfile name if Srow gt flagl path date YmdHis if file _exists path Sthis gt status FF STATUS UPLOAD FAILED Sthis gt message BFText PROCESS FILEEXISTS return PAd iE Replace it with if row gt flagl time path date YmdHis _ path S baseDir time_ path Suserfile name if file_exists path Sthis gt status FF STATUS UPLOAD FAILED Sthis gt message BFText PROCESS FILEEXISTS return 95 Users Guide C
28. of the screen and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save your form Upon submit they will be taken to the URL based on the choice they made 6 87 Masked Input for Fields Is there a way to use masked inputting with elements in BreezingForms Go to this site github com digitalBush jquery maskedinput and download the Masked Input plugin zipfile Unzip the zip file Create a new folder on your server let s call it maskedinput to house the contents created mine as follows lincludes js maskedinput Now upload the contents files and folders of the unzipped file to the maskedinput folder Once you ve done that you need to create your form and connect it to a menu item so you can view it Open the page that contains the form and click on View Source You now need to find the ELEMENT ID for each element that you want to use with the Input Mask script In my case added three text elements to my form date phone and SSN Here is the HTML code for the date element in my form Code lt input class ff elem type text name ff nm date value 137 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms id ff elem11 76 gt The ELEMENT ID for the date field is at the end ff elem1176 Here is the HTML code for the phone element in my form Code lt input class ff elem type text name ff nm phone value id ff eleml
29. or 69 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms or Y m d d m Y or or Md M WY Y Ym d 4 9 Manage Form Classic Mode Classic Mode created for those with a more technical background It allows you to fully code and alter the way you want your form displayed without limitations To view the manual for Classic Mode use the link below Click Here for Classic Mode 4 10 Manage Form Easy Mode Easy Mode is just as it sounds easy with the simplicity of quickmode but a little Complexity of Classic Mode The manual for the Easy Mode is coming out in Manual Version 1 2 in the very near future 70 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 5 Scripts amp Pieces Scripts Tab gt Initialization Script A javascript that should be executed on form initalization loading gt Submitted Script A javascript that will be triggered after the form has been submitted Form Pieces Tab gt Before Form PHP that should be executed before the form is rendered You can for example print something out and it will be displayed on top of the form gt After Form The same like above but will be executed after the form is rendered So printing will happen in the end of the form Submit Pieces Tab gt Before Submit PHP that will be executed before the form is going to be submitted You can use this for example catching values and prevent storing a submission gt After Submit Same like above
30. recommend and check to see if your BreezingForms installation works correctly after that If it doesn t then would recommend you use the alternate installation method For more information please see this KnowledgeBase article http www crosstec de support index php pid knowledgebase amp cmd viewentclient amp id 6 3 5 4 Installing with XAMPP Q I am trying to install BreezingForms on an XAMPP server but have been unsuccessful in getting it to work If you are using version 1 7 4 you might want to consider downgrading to version 1 7 3 Many forums indicate that XAMPP 1 7 4 is not a very stable application Joomla and many of its extensions including BreezingForms have some serious problems with it 3 5 5 Buttons and Menu Items Missing in Admin Q After doing an install all of the buttons and menu items are missing from my BreezingForm admin There is just PHP text where the buttons and menu items should be Try uploading the languages files to your server it sounds like they are either not there or didn t get overwritten with the new files Unzip the com_breezingforms zip file and upload the files noted below to the locations described Unzipped file admin languages en GB admin en GB com_breezingforms ini Upload to JoomlaRoot administrator language en GB en GB com_breezingforms ini Unzipped file admin languages en GB admin en GB com_breezingforms menu ini Upload to JoomlaRoot administrator language en GB en
31. screen Fill in the other details as necessary and then click SAVE 6 32 How to Use Submit Button How do I get the Submit button to work in a QuickMode form If you are using QuickMode and your submit button is simply to advance the form to the thank you page and submit the data from the form then all you need to do is 1 Inthe form properties check the box that says Last page is thank you page 2 Make sure the button for Include submit button is set to YES 3 Make sure that the button for Paging include is set to YES 4 Click on the SAVE PROPERTIES button on the Form Properties screen to save the changes you just made to the form properties It appears both above and below the entry screen 5 Add whatever form elements you need into the first page of the form 98 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 6 Create a new Page Page 2 and enter a Thank You message in the Description You can access it via the EDIT link next to Description You can use HTML images etc in this field Then click SAVE PROPERTIES to save the element text 7 Click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself 8 Test the form it should now work 6 33 Populate Fields from Database Table Is there a way to populate fields from a database table Contributed by Erich Haubrich looked around for a way to populate fields in a form from the database if a user is logged in
32. step instructions on how to setup the PayPal element for a simple single button IMPORTANT NOTE Please note that the thank you page URL for the BreezingForms Version 1 7 1 Build 730 and higher should be http www yourwebsite com index php option com_breezingforms amp ff_name YourFormName amp ff_page 2 NOT http www yourwebsite com index php option com_facileforms amp ff_name YourFormName amp ff_page 2 as noted in this PDF 4 8 5 Conditional Checkbox Validation have three checkboxes in a group Can make them dependent on each other so that if checkbox 1 is checked you can t check checkbox 2 or 3 If checkbox 2 is checked you can t check 1 and 3 etc In other words of the three checkboxes you can only check one option If it is a Case where you only want to allow the user to choose one option out of a group then you might want to use a Radio Group instead of a checkbox group If there is some other reason why you need those checkboxes to be conditional however for example for a following visibility rule then you can do so by putting a custom validation in the checkbox group In the Validation section at the bottom of the checkbox element click on the CUSTOM button In the textarea that opens paste in the code below Then make changes as noted in the CHANGES REQUIRED section below 65 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms function ff_mygroup_validation element message initial checked
33. sure that it works LINKING A FORM TO A HIDDEN MENU If you want to link a BreezingForms form directly to a hidden menu then create the hidden menu asnoted above Find the hidden menu in the Menus dropdown Click on it and then click on the NEW icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen In the dialogue box that opens select Menu Type BreezingForms In the parameters section enter the form name EXACTLY AS SHOWN including case sensitivity in the NAME column on the Manage Forms screen Make sure that the Display In field shows your hidden menu Fill in the other fields as you normally would and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen When you are returned to the Menu Item Manager screen make note of the ItemID that is assigned to your new menu item It will be in the last column of the form To create a link to your form use the following format hp option com breezingforms amp Itemid xx Replace xx with the ItemID number of the form you want to link to as noted above Now test the URL to make sure that it works NOTE If you are using BreezingForms version 729 or earlier the URL should be linked as http ourdomain com index php option com facileforms Itemid xx 6 53 Restrict Form Submission for Entry Form have a contest running on my website but users are only allowed to enter once Is there a way to restrict them so they can t Yes there
34. the changes to the form s properties and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself 6 21 Changing Fonts in Forms How do I change the fonts in my forms Make a new template which you can adjust as you please To do so go to your templates folder 6 21 1 In Build 730 and higher Imedia breezingforms themes Make a copy of the default folder and paste it back in with a new foldername i e mytheme Open the theme css file in your new folder You will see that each of the CSS elements is laid out and ready for whatever changes you want to make to fonts colors etc For example if you 89 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms wanted the text to be in Comic Sans MS here is the CSS you would need to adjust to accomplish that bfQuickMode font family Comic Sans MS font weight bold font size 20px Once you ve made the necessary changes save the CSS file and reupload it your new mytheme folder Then in the form properties select mytheme from the Theme dropdown list 6 22 CSS for iFrames Can I use CSS in a form that is running in an iFrame Yes you can This forum post offers one possible solution http www crosstec de forums html func view amp catid 5 amp id 6825 6830 You could also echo the link rel inclusion as a BEFORE FORM piece Form Properties gt Advanced Tab gt More Options Link gt Form Pieces
35. the form If you change it here then save the settings at the bottom of the page and then save the form itself your old form name will be overwritten with the new one you just defined e Ordering This dropdown allows you to change the order in which your form appears on the Manage Forms screen If you d like it to appear at the very top of the list select 0 First If you d like it to appear somewhere else on the list just choose the number that corresponds with the order that you want it in For example to have it appear in the third position choose number 3 e Published Select yes if the form should be published no if it should not be published yet e Run Mode There are three select values for Run Mode as follows o Any Form will run on either the frontend or backend admin side o Frontend Form will run on the frontend o Backend Form will run on the admin side e Width The width of your form can be defined in pixels or as a percentage By default it is set at 400 pixels NOTE This definition only works for forms that will be displayed within an iFrame To set the width of a regular QuickMode form please see this KnowledgeBase Article Adjust Form Width e Height The height of your form must be defined in pixels Note Auto and Automax require specification of a bottom margin in pixels The margin however is actually defining the form s height in pixels so make sure you leave it high enough to di
36. the form AllowFormEdit O no 1 yes See Note Below RemoveExistingSubmissions 0 no 1 yes See Note Below NOTE In order to use the AllowFormEdit and RemoveExistingSubmissions parameters you must include definitions for ALL of the available parameters Also choosing to remove 75 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms existing submissions is NOT recommended so this setting should be set to 0 in most circumstances Examples BreezingForms SampleContactForm BreezingForms MyVeryForm 2 BreezingForms AnotherForm 1 0 amp ff param xy 123 amp ff param _foo bar E BreezingForms testform amp ff param foo bar mysuffix Pay attention with the following one Basically it will work but when using a WYSIWYG editor it will insert linebreaks as lt br gt and the bot will no longer recognize the pattern BreezingForms AnotherForm 1 0 amp ff param xy 123 amp ff param foo bar 6 3 Populate a Field Based on Prior Element in Form Is it possible to populate a field further on in a form from data entered in an earlier field Yes you can do that Go to your form s properties gt Advanced tab gt More Options gt Scripts tab Click on the CUSTOM radio button in the Initialization Script section After doing so a new textarea will open up Click on the words Create code framework A popup box will
37. the right hand element properties Within the editor that opens you can add HTML images etc 6 56 Form Jumps to ReCaptcha As soon as open the webpage with my form on it it jumps straight to the ReCaptcha field How can I make the focus stay at the top of the page In Build 730 and higher go to com_breezingforms libraries crosstec classes and open the file BFQuickMode php In that file look for this code Code bfReCaptchaDiv theme addslashes mdata theme callback Recaptcha focus_ response field and replace it with 115 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Code bfReCaptchaDiv theme addslashes S mdata theme Now in Build 730 and higher go to administrator components com_breezingforms libraries crosstec classes In Build 729 and lower go to administrator components com_ facileforms libraries crosstec classes and do the same thing Open the file BFQuickMode php and in that file look for this code Code bfReCaptchaDiv theme addslashes Smdata theme callback Recaptcha focus_ response field Code bfReCaptchaDiv theme addslashes Smdata theme Focus should now be returned to the top of the page 6 57 Put Cursor in First Field How do I get the cursor to be in the first field of my form when someone goes to that page In techno speak this is called getting f
38. then you likely have too little memory available in the php ini settings of your hosting account If that is the case to resolve it contact your host and ask them to increase memory memory_limit to at least 32 MB and then see if the error disappears 6 98 Catchable Fatal Error When Saving Form When I to make changes to my form in the backend I get an error message like this Warning fopen home public_html administrator components com_breezingforms ajax_cache ajax save_0_0 40857069558356207 txt function fopen failed to open stream No such fileor directory in home public_htmi libraries joomla filesystem file php on line 268 Catchable fatal error Argument 2 passed to QuickMode save must be an array null given called in home public_html administrator components com_breezingforms admin quickmode php on line 42 and defined in home public_html administrator components com_breezingforms admin quickmode clas s php on line 23 How can I fix this Check your form in a different browser Does the same thing happen then If it happens in other browsers too then the problem could be that the folder administrator components com_breezingforms ajax_cache is not writable or that you need to activate the FTP layer in the Joomla global configuration settings using the same login data you are using with your regular FTP client 6 99 How Do I Turn Autocomplete Off or On How do I turn autocomplete off when I m completi
39. this problem please consult the 3rd party developer s support or request a refund there We can help you collecting evidence that the issues are not on our side or if time allows exceptionally provide a workaround Our extensions are developed to work on regular and properly configured systems as you can see on our demo pages Thank you for your understanding NOTE Unlike others there are no domain or server restrictions of any kind no domain limitations on support You are free to use our products the way you want as long as you want 2 3 Requirements Joomla 1 5 x 1 6 x 1 7 x or 2 5 x PHP 5 MySQL 3 Firefox 3 x or Google Chrome very fast for the EasyMode Any other modern browser for the Quick and ClassicMode This package includes the latest version of the component the module the plugin and the mmfuncs 11 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 3 Installation Setup If your product is a piece of software that users can install on their machines be sure to include thorough instructions for each particular operating system you support The idea is get the user up and running as quickly as possible Screenshots are especially helpful at this stage For a complete installation of BreezingForms there are three separate elements that you will need to upload and install e Component for basic form functionality e Plugin allows you to embed a form in an article e Module allows you to use a fo
40. to edit it Replace this function ff_valuenotempty element message if element value return 68 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms if message message Please enter element name n ff_validationFocus element name return message ff_valuenotempty with this function ff_valuenotempty element message if ff_trim element value return if message message Please enter element name n ff_validationFocus element name return message ff_valuenotempty Then click on the SAVE icon in the lower right hand corner of the screen Test it out it should work for you now 4 8 11 Delete an Element How do I delete an element in QuickMode Right click on the element name in the directory tree on the left hand side of the page and you will see three options Copy Paste Delete Click on Delete to remove the element This works at both the element and section level For a section it is important to note that deleting it will also delete ALL ELEMENTS contained within the section Calendar Format in BreezingForms 1 7 5 and Higher upgraded to BreezingForms 1 7 5 and now my calendar elements aren t working Help The date format has changed in the new version of BreezingForms because of the way Joomla changed the code in their calendar The correct format to use now is m d Y or or Y M d m d Y or or d m Y m dqd Y
41. with the following elements e Textfield e Hidden Input FF ff_real 62 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Validates that a real number is entered Can be used with the following elements e Textfield e Hidden Input FF ff_realamount Validates that a positive real number is entered Can be used with the following elements e Textfield e Hidden Input FF ff_securitycode_entered Checks that a security code was entered Not used in QuickMode FF ff_securitycode_ok Checks that a valid security code was entered Not used in QuickMode FF ff_showvalidation Displays element validation Used for debugging Can be used with the following elements e ALL except Submit Button Summarize Captcha ReCaptcha PayPal Button DirectPayment Button FF ff_unchecked Validates that a radio button or checkbox is unchecked Can be used with the following elements e Radio Button when only one in use e Checkbox when only one in use FF ff_validemail Validates that the syntax for an email address is correct not the email address itself 63 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Can be used with the following elements e Any Textfield that is used to capture an Email address FF ff_validemail_repeat Checks that the field value is a valid email address syntax only and has a second counterpart with an equal value Can be used with the following elements e Any Textfield that is used to ca
42. Another Element I have a billing and shipping address section in my form want to add a checkbox that says Same as Billing which would automatically copy the field data from each field to corresponding fields in the shipping section Is that possible Yes this is indeed possible To do this you need to create a custom action in the Same as Billing checkbox element that would generate the copying of the fields Go to the checkbox element s properties gt Advanced tab and scroll down to the Actionscript section TYPE Custom ACTIONS Check the Click checkbox Then click on the generate code framework text If a popup alert appears click YES Into the generated function that appears in the textarea right after this line case click 142 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Add this line for each element that you need to copy from the shipping section and add to the billing section ElementByName TARGET ELE ElementByName SOURCE _ Replace TARGET ELEMENT and SOURCE ELEMENT with the names that you are using for the elements For multiple elements just repeat the line for each additional one you need to get the value for Click on the Save Properties button at the bottom of the screen to save your element changes and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself 6 96 Calendar
43. Breezing Forms User Manual Updated December 2013 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Table of Contents NWO NGI cece tece Scat a ehh aaae creeds e TENE Pa N a E EEEE EA 3 2 Getting SUNS Chases wa seins ee wcrc L E a e a aaa Ea AREE 4 2 1 Subscription Plans DISC IAUINIGY scgeeececesectcaca sence dasacssaaseeecceeeaerneceneauial aad bdassadeassdeenasmnarstansocaate 4 2 A REUNASTA eee reer oe eee ees 4 2D SIREQUIFEMEMISS aeciaiee derie E Er aAa aana p Eiee EEEE a ee aED Eai 4 AL abe Clic Wie p kel 0 6 ener eee nace ener at Renee eee ren ttrt ee ern eee rere eee eee 5 3 1 Install the COMPONENL ccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeaaaeeaaeaaeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseaaaaaaaaneeeeeeeeeeess 5 3 2 Alternate Component Installation 0 nanan aaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet tent 5 3 3 Install the PIUQIIN ccceeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeceeeeaaaeeeeeecedeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesaaaaaaaaededeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaa 6 3 4Install the OM cc cts onneen aa aa aiai pasanemvessantaniease 6 3 5 Installation Errors You May Receive eeeiiiiisssesseetttttiiiritiititttasntttttttttttiiiennennennnant 7 3 5 1 Timeout Errors White Screen on Installation eeen 7 3 5 2 Components Menu on Installation Shows All BreezingForms Links Separately 7 2 5 3 Installation Fails with JFolder EMM ssccececiectccccsnectntsvenece iets iakeacteoned a ecetiteatensnslsiueassiseee 7 3 5 4 Installing with XAMPP cccccccceeeceeeeeeeceaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
44. COPY Next highlight the Page line in the directory tree that contains your summarize elements right click on it and then click on PASTE Now open up each of the summarize elements and make sure they are correctly mapped to your original elements Click on SAVE PROPERTIES for any summarize element that you have to change and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself 6 65 Forcing a Phrase Match I want to add a coupon code to my form The code will be the same for everyone but I don t know how to make sure they enter the right code Can I even do that Sure you can 1 Go to your form and then to the text element that you are using for your Coupon Code field For the purposes of this example we re going to call the element CouponCode without quotes in the NAME field underneath the Label field 2 2 Puta checkmark in the Validation box and then click on the radio button to the right of the word Custom in the next line 3 Enter an error message for example Please enter a valid coupon code 4 Click on Create code framework It doesn t look like a link but it is A javascript popup will appear which says Create code framework for validation now Existing code will be appended Click on OK 5 Inthe text area that opens delete all of the code which is currently there and replace it with 122 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms fun
45. ELDSET section within a NORMAL section To do that create a new section For demonstration purposes let s call this Section1 Leave the Title blank delete any text displayed by default Now go to the Advanced tab and place a checkmark in the TURN OFF checkbox Click the SAVE button to save your new element Next in the directory tree on the left hand side drag the original FIELDSET section into the new NORMAL section you just created Let s call this section SectioniFieldset Go to the advanced tab and uncheck the TURN OFF checkbox Click the SAVE button to save your changes Do this for each of the fieldset sections that you need to hide Now you need to go to the form s Advanced tab to change your conditional statements like so turn on section SectionlFieldset if OriginalElementl is yes 129 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms turn off section SectionlFieldset if OriginalElementl is no That should do it Calendar validating date in the past MM DD YYYY Format How do command the calendar function to have a warning message when a user chooses a date in the past function ff CALENDARITEMNAME validation element message if element value split length 3 return message element namet faild in my test n message var vDate new Date Number element value split 1 1 element value split 2 element value split
46. ElementByName amountowing value N umber ff_getElementByName d12 value if ff_getElementByName d13 checked ff_getElementByName amountowing value Number ff_getElementByName amountowing value N umber ff_getElementByName d13 value if ff_getElementByName d14 checked ff_getElementByName amountowing value Number ff_getElementByName amountowing value N umber ff_getElementByName d14 value if ff_getElementByName d16 checked ff_getElementByName amountowing value Number ff_getElementByName amountowing value N umber ff_getElementByName d16 value if ff_getElementByName d18 checked ff_getElementByName amountowing value Number ff_getElementByName amountowing value N umber ff_getElementByName d18 value if ff_getElementByName d1o checked ff_getElementByName amountowing value Number ff_getElementByName amountowing value N umber ff_getElementByName d10 value Note that to see all of that code you may have to scroll across But you can just copy it and paste it into your form s code framework d Modify that code to replace the names with the ones you used in step 2 If you used my names d11 d12 d13 d14 d16 d18 and dlo then it will work as is 74 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Now save the properties save the form and publis
47. K OK 0 OR OR O PA PA O RI R O7SC SC 0 SD SD 0O TN TN O TX TX O UT UT 0 VA VA 0s VT VT 0 WA WA O WI W 0 WV WV 0 WY WY 6 46 Capture URL the Form was Submitted From We want to track which of our pages generates form completion by our visitors Is there a way to capture and record the URL that a form was submitted from Yes there is 108 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms First create a hidden field in your form with the following properties Type hidden input Label Referring URL or whatever you want to call it Name page Click on SAVE PROPERTIES to save the element data and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form with the new element Then within your form s properties go to Advanced gt More Options Then click on the FORM PIECES tab at the top of the popup screen In the first section BEFORE FORM click on the CUSTOM button In the field that opens up underneath that enter this code SpageURL http if _SERVER HTTPS on SpageURL s SpageURL if _SERVER SERVER_PORT 80 SpageURL _SERVER SERVER_NAME _ SERVER SERVER_PORT _SERVER REQUEST_URI else SpageURL SERVER SERVER NAME SERVER REQUEST URI Sthis gt execPieceB
48. LENDARITEMNAME validation element message if element value split length 3 return message element name faild in my test n message var vDate new Date element value split 0 Number element value split 1 1 element value split 2 0 0 0 0 getTime var today new Date today setHours 0 today setMinutes 0 today setSeconds 0 today setMilliseconds 0 80 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms today today getTime if vDate lt today if message message element name faild in my test n return message return This example is for the js calendar default date pattern YYYY MM DD therefore the js above might be slightly different for other patterns for instance german Also note CALENDARITEMNAME has to be replaced by your calendar item s name This is automatically done by clicking Generate Code Framework 6 10 Can I Replace or Enhance Joomla s Registration Form 1 Can I replace or enhance Joomla s registration form I need more fields than it offers Yes you can do that with BreezingForms See this package http crosstec de en markets breezingforms formapps details 30 2 breezingforms market type form apps user registrationform html Then just disable Joomla s registration and connect your new form through menu article via plugin or module 6 11 Can I Replace or Enhance J
49. NAL INFORMATION or whatever your section title is called You might want to make the header a bit more prominent by changing the value to something like this So PERSONAL INFORMATION PERSONAL INFORMATION x x xx PERSONAL INFORMATION etc 6 67 Create a Popup Thank You Message Instead of going to a thank you page just want a popup that tells the user their form has been received Is there a way to do that To create a popup alert go to your form s properties gt Advanced tab gt More Options and then click on the SCRIPTS tab In the SUBMITTED SCRIPT section click on type Custom A textarea should appear Click on the words GENERATE CODE FRAMEWORK that appear Inside the textarea add the following code alert Thank you for your inquiry You can change the message inside the quotation marks to whatever you want 6 68 Turn a Section Off for Registered Users If a registered user is filling in a form i don t want to collect information about him that we already know such as name surname address etc But if a new user fills out the form then I want that information collected Is there a way to do that This example assumes that you have two sections to your form The first section tagged as Section 1 in the image below would be presented to users who are not logged in but would be hidden for users who ARE logged in Section 2 would be displayed to
50. OK Look for this line case click Add a new line UNDERNEATH that line as follows window print So the code framework should look like this function ff PrintButton_action element action switch action case click window print break 120 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms default switch ff _PrintButton_ action Click on SAVE PROPERTIES to save the element and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself Now you need to add a SUBMIT button to the form To do so create a new element with the following properties Type Submit Button Label Submit Name submitButton Value Submit Click on the SAVE PROPERTIES button and then go to the Advanced tab Scroll down to the ACTIONSCRIPT section of the page and add the following settings Type Library Actions Click Should be CHECKED Script FF ff_validate_submit Click on SAVE PROPERTIES to save the element and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself You should now see two buttons on your form one to print and one to submit Go ahead give it a try and test your form If you ve done everything right a print window should appear when you click on the print button and once you say OK to print a print dialog box should appear 6 64 Summar
51. T amp INSTALL should be selected URWNE D 102 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 8 Browse to the directory on your hard drive where you stored that xml file and select it Highlight the file and click OPEN or double click the file and it should then appear in the filename field 9 Now click on the INSTALL PACKAGE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen 10 You ll then be directed to a Package Installation Report Click the CONTINUE icon at the bottom of the screen 11 Now that part is done so go to the MANAGE FORMS section and re open your form 12 Once open click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen Now test your form It should advance properly through the pages Click Here to Download 6 39 Total Sum Calculations with Checkbox Fields How To I have amounts in checkbox fields and need to display the total sum of all the fields How do I do that 1 Create a form using QuickMode 2 Add your checkbox fields 3 a Give them whatever LABEL you want but make sure the NAME is something easy For this example the names are d11 d12 d b 3b Give them a VALUE that is a dollar value My values for this example are 35 00 35 00 35 00 35 00 45 00 55 00 and 70 00 c 3c For each checkbox click on the ADVANCED tab and create an ACTIONSCRIPT event using CUSTOM and check the action CLICK In the code framework box put in this Code function ff dll action element a
52. Then in the BEFORE FORM section click on the CUSTOM button and add the following code Sthis gt execPieceByName ff InitLib echo lt link rel stylesheet type text css media all href JURI root path to stylesheet css gt Then click on the SAVE icon at the bottom of that screen and then once back at the form properties screen click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen 6 23 iFrame Text is Aligned Right I have a form running inside an iFrame but for some reason the text is all aligned on the righthand side and the punctuation shows before the text Help This is a known Joomla 1 5 15 bug Look in your Joomla directory structure and see if you have this file templates system css template_rtl css If so try replacing the file with an empty one or comment out the appropriate code as noted in the post below http forum joomla org viewtopic php f 430 amp t 463851 amp start 0 90 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms That should solve your problem 6 24 Installation 2006 Error I tried to install BreezingForms but I got this error component Installer DB function failed with error number 2006 There are two possibilities One is that you could need to increase the max allowed package size in the mysql config If that doesn t work 1 Download the attached file bf components 737 zip 2 Unzip the file There is j
53. Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms USER TIP FROM BOB R If Joomla s email cloaking plugin is enabled you will get a nice long javascript instead of an email address Adding the emailcloak off without the spaces of course just before the PHP call in the value field will solve this problem for the entire form In fact if placed anywhere in the form it will disable email cloaking for the entire page So what I ve done is simply put the following line in my first email form value emailcloak off lt php return JFactory getUser gt get email gt EASYMODE With EasyMode forms the PHP code is different and has to be entered in the Form Settings gt Scripts gt Init Scripts section Here is an example of what you would need to enter lt php echo var hame JFactory getUser gt get name var email JFactory getUser gt get email var username JFactory getUser gt get username De gt function ff YourFormName init Ff getElementByName name value name Ff getElementByName email value email ff getElementByName username value username YourFormName_init Make sure you change the YourFormName part of the code above to the actual name of your form 6 20 URL for Thank You Page How do I make my form redirect to a thank you page at a differ
54. able e Script Selection If you have created any custom scripts that should be exported with your form select them here e Piece Selection If you have created any custom pieces that should be exported with your form select them here e Then click on the Continue button You will be prompted to save an XML file Be aware that your browser might block or attempt to block it Check for any warnings in that regard 4 3 2 Install a Package How do install a package Package Installer 37 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms To install a package here s what you ll need to do Go to Components gt BreezingForms gt Configuration In the BreezingForms configuration screen you ll see this 4 Save Package Installe lt Create Package Cancel e Click on Package Installer at the bottom of the Configuration screen Administration Z Joomlal Site Usera Menus Content Composemta Extensions Meip Dovas Brass 0 Arwen Mciran cache og out faasa R m breezingforms 0 Optone natal Package Unesial Pactages Cance Coahgeraton Broezingforms instal Package e Upload File Choose whether to upload the file from your hard drive from client or from a file on your server If you are uploading a file from your hard drive you will see a Browse button Click On it to locate the package you wish to upload If you are installing a package from a file on a server select that radio button In the field below
55. after the second semicolon must not contain any special characters except for underscores hyphens or spaces Use of special characters may cause the form functionality to fail 4 8 Password Validation 56 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms How do I make sure that my Password and Confirm Password text fields match I don t see a library script to validate passwords You can create a new library script to handle this type of validation Here s how 1 Goto Components gt BreezingForms gt Manage Scripts 2 Click on the NEW icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to create a new script 3 On the screen that opens enter the following variables Title Validate password repeat Published YES Package FF Name ff_password_repeat Type Element Validation Description Validates that two password fields match Note The second password field must be named FIELDNAME_repeat where FIELDNAME is the name that you assigned to the first password field 4 Inthe codebox text area enter the following code Code function ff_password_repeat element message if element value if message message element name is empty n ff_validationFocus element name return message if try var repeat element name split ff_nm_ 1 split 0 if ff_getElementByName repeat _repeat if message message repeatt has no repeat password field n ff_validationFocus e
56. age in the ERROR MESSAGE field This is the error that will appear to a user if the field does not validate Finally click on the dropdown arrow to choose a script to invoke a validation rule The scripts validation rules that are installed with BreezingForms include The script to use will depend on the element type Scripts and validation rules are listed below in alphabetical order FF ff_anychecked Validates that a radio button in selected in a radio group or that a checkbox has been checked in a checkbox group Can be used with the following elements 61 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms e Radio Group e Checkbox Group FF ff_checked Validates that a radio button or checkbox is checked Can be used with the following elements e Radio Button when only one in use e Checkbox when only one in use FF ff_flashupload_not_empty Validates that a file is uploaded using the Flash option in the File Upload element Can be used with the following elements e File Upload with Use Flash Upload checkbox checked in Advanced Properties FF ff_integer Validates that an integer value is entered Can be used with the following elements e Textfield e Hidden Input FF ff_integer_or_empty Validates that either an integer value or nothing is entered Can be used with the following elements e Textfield e Hidden Input FF ff_integeramount Validates that a positive integer value is entered Can be used
57. any com 97 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms If you have an email cloaking plugin make sure that you put it BELOW the BreezingForms plugin otherwise it might not work correctly 6 31 How to Display the Form in Your Site Okay I ve created the form Now what How do make it show up on my site There are three ways to get the forms onto a page 1 Link directly to the form via the Menu Click on Menus gt Main Menu or whichever menu you want it in and then click on New Choose BreezingForms as the menu type and then click on Add a Form when it appears You will then be taken to the regular menu item screen In the parameters section enter the form name EXACTLY AS SHOWN including case sensitivity in the NAME column on the Manage Forms screen Fill in the other details as necessary and then click SAVE 2 Install and enable the BreezingForms plugin and embed the form within an article For instructions on how to do that see Install Plugin http www crosstec de support index php pid knowledgebase amp cmd viewentclient amp id 23 Embed Form in Article 3 Display the form in a module position To do so install and enable the BreezingForms module then go to Extensions gt Module Manager and click on NEW Select BreezingForms and then click next Then in the parameters section enter the form name EXACTLY AS SHOWN including case sensitivity in the NAME column on the Manage Forms
58. assigned by BreezingForms Note that if you rename it that the name should include only letters numbers and underscores Special characters and spaces should NOT be used Once again highlight the Section 1 that you just created and click on the NEW SECTION button again This time set the properties to Type Fieldset Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Display Type Wrap after each element Title Section 1B Rename as you see fit this is for illustration purposes Section Name You can name this yourself or leave it with the name automatically assigned by BreezingForms Note that if you rename it that the name should include only letters numbers and underscores Special characters and spaces should NOT be used Within each of those sub sections 1A and 1B you would then put the elements that you want displayed within the fieldset 6 14 How Does the Confirm Email Function Work I am trying to use the Confirm Email function but I can t get it to work What am I doing wrong Create your first textfield with these settings TYPE Textfield LABEL Email NAME email The remaining fields Value Size Max length and hint are optional In the Validation section at the bottom put a checkmark in the REQUIRED checkbox Then in the Validation type choose the LIBRARY button In the dropdown list that appears select FF ff_validemail_repeat Now create your second textfield with these settings
59. ck in your PHPMyAdmin to see whether your database CONNECTION not the collation is set to UTF8 If it isn t then please change it save the change and then test your form It should work 6 83 Is there a way to reduce the size of the captcha box You can make changes to the settings in this file Icomponents com_breezingforms images captcha securimage_show php If you want to change some of the styling for the Captcha box you could also check the bfCaptcha settings in this file Icomponents com_breezingforms themes quickmode system css 6 84 Select List Calculations Averaging My form has four Select from list fields each with six options ranked 1 to 6 I want to have a field that shows the sum of these four fields divided by 4 to have the average and multiplied by 1 66 to have a grade on a scale of 10 Can I do that Add a textfield probably set it to read only and give it the name not title result In the advanced tab for each select list go to the Actionscript section and then put a custom action on each select list To do that go to the select list element gt advanced tab gt Actionscript gt click custom gt check the change checkbox gt click create code framework Right after case change put this ff getElementByName result value Number ff getElementByName SELECT 1 value Number ff getElementByName SELECT 2 value Number ff g
60. ck on SAVE PROPERTIES to save the new element and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save itself Now go to your form s properties gt Advanced tab gt More Options and click on the SCRIPTS tab In the INITIALIZATION SCRIPT section click on the CUSTOM button Then click on the Create code framework text A message will popup saying Create code framework for init now Existing code will be appended Click OK A textarea will appear with code in it that looks similar to the following function ff YourFormName_ init YourFormName init On the line right below the first curly bracket add the following code ff getElementByName PageTitle value window parent document title So the final code should look something like this unction ff YourFormName init ff getElementByName PageTitle value window parent document title YourFormName_ init 111 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Note If your hidden element is named something other than PageTitle then you will need to change that in the code above Click on the SAVE button at the bottom of the screen to save the script changes and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself 6 49 Change Default Email Subject Is there a way to change the subject i
61. ction ff amountowing action element action Make sure you change the title to match the NAME of this checkbox So for box d12 it would look like this Code function ff d1l2 action element action ff amountowing action element action and so on Make sure you click SAVE PROPERTIES after each field is created 4 a Create a text field with the NAME amountowing and a VALUE of 0 103 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms b On the ADVANCED tab click on READ ONLY so that people can not alter the amount c Under the ACTIONSCRIPT set it to CUSTOM You do not need to click on any of the checkboxes as this script runs from the checkboxes on your form the ones you created in step 2 d Inthe code framework add this Code function ff amountowing action element action ff getElementByName amountowing value 0 if ff getElementByName d11 checked ff getElementByName amountowing value Number ff getElementByName amountowing value Number ff getElementByName d11 value if ff getElementByName d12 checked ff getElementByName amountowing value Number ff getElementByName amountowing value Number ff getElementByName d12 value if ff getHlementByName d13 checked ff getElementByName amountowing
62. ction FF 4t_arychecked FF tt_addCustemCSSFile A FF dt_checked j FF f_Constarts a FFidt_checkedValue FF Jf_die FF dt_cournt Query Selections FFift_DisableFormTrace Tni E FFidt_enpSinng FF iit_Disable Suubena Trace FF 4t_fashupload_net_empty FF stt dying l FF 4t_getloous FF At_enp String FF 4t_get Query SelectedRows FF dt_getPageByNameX FF 4f_get Query Selections FF gat Param FF dt_imp String FF sff_get Submit FF idt_ireeget FF Jf imp Suing FF dt_integeramount FR stt_init Lib FF dt_integer_ce_empty FF tt makeFormUrl FF dt_nestpage FF it_makePageLl 4 FF 4f_pagel FF Hf_make Sel Ul M Select all Clear selection Select al Clear selection M j Continue 2 cancel e ID Leave the ID section blank e Package Name Give your package a name file name no spaces 36 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms e Version Assign a version number to your form e Package Title Enter the title of your package spaces are allowed e Author Name Enter your name e Author Email Enter your Email address e Author URL Enter your website URL if applicable e Description Enter a brief description of your package and or form e Copyright If there are copyright restrictions on your package or form enter the terms here e Form Selection Select the form that you wish to include in the package e Backend Menuitem Selection Choose the Backend Menuitem that you wish to include in the package if applic
63. ction ff CouponCode validation element message if element value ABC123 return return Please enter a valid coupon code CouponCode_ validation Next go to the FORM PIECES tab In the AFTER FORM section click on the CUSTOM radio button In the text area that opens enter the following code return lt script gt JQuery document ready function mytoggler H lt script gt le r Now click on the SAVE icon in the lower right hand corner of the screen to save the script and form piece changes that you made Once m back on the form properties page click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself 6 66 Add Section Header in Email When I divide my form into sections the section title doesn t appear in the Email Is there a way to make it show BreezingForms currently doesn t offer this feature but one of our users suggested the following workaround Thanks SoftDux Add a hidden Input element with the section s name where you want it to appear i e just above or below the section name with settings as follows Type Hidden Input Label 1 The label can t be hidden in this element so numbering each section sequentially seems to look best for display purposes Name Personal_Info_Header or whatever you want to call it 123 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Value PERSO
64. d So putting all of that together let s say you want to give someone a color choice You might code it as follows Your options will appear in the list in the same order as you enter them in the List field If you want to change the order just move them around within that field The validation rule that should be used with a select list is FF ff_valuenotempty 0 Choose Color 0 Red Red 0 Blue Blue 60 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 0 Green Green 0 I like all colors so it doesn t matter Any color Your options will appear in the list in the same order as you enter them in the List field If you want to change the order just move them around within that field The validation rule that should be used with a select list is FF ff_valuenotempty 4 8 3 Validating Form Elements How do validate a field checked the Required checkbox but I was able to senda form without that field being completed don t understand The Required checkbox adds the asterisk to the form so there is a visual cue that the field is required However in order to actually force validation of an element you must invoke a validation script rule You do that in the Validation section of a form element Under most circumstances you will want to choose a validation rule from the library To do so click on the Library radio button next to Validation as shown above Next enter an error mess
65. d isn t filled in or is filled in incorrectly If this field is left unchecked the error message will appear at the top of the form If you check this field then an alert will pop up like this The page at http YourDomain com says x Please enter your name Please enter a valid email address e Fading Effect on Form Entry If you select this option your form fields will fade in as the page loads NOTE if you are using Flash file uploads this effect should be disabled due to a current bug in the code On the list to be corrected e Rollover This box is checked by default When checked a field will change color when it is moused over e Rollover Color If you d like to change the rollover color enter the hex code here for your preferred color Don t understand hex codes or know which one you want Here s a good source for you e Visibility Rules In order to turn fields and or sections on and off conditionally you need to add your visibility rules in this field For more information about conditional fields and visibility rules please click here e Save Properties Once you have filled in the necessary fields on the Properties tab click the Save Properties button located at both the top and bottom of the screen e Save Form 44 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Important The Save Properties button only saves the parameters of the form tab that you are on IT DOES NOT SAVE THE FORM ITSELF T
66. d column will be overwritten 2 Onthe Data menu click Text to Columns 3 Follow the instructions in the Convert Text to Columns Wizard to specify how you want to divide the text into columns 4 1 3 Allow Manager Access I want one of my staff with Manager level rights to be able to access the records in BreezingForms but only an Administrator can Is there a way around that Yes there is Please note however that this code fix will give a Manager access to ALL areas of BreezingForms not just the Manage Records section To grant rights to a Manager within BreezingForms open this file In BreezingForms Build 730 and higher administrator components com_breezingforms admin breezingforms php In BreezingForms Build 729 and lower administrator components com_facileforms admin facileforms php Look for if Smy gt usertype Super Administrator amp amp Smy gt usertype Administrator f and change it to 32 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms if Smy gt usertype Super Administrator amp amp Smy gt usertype Administrator amp amp Smy gt usertype Manager 4 2 BreezingForms Configuration How do I configure BreezingForms once it is installed 4 2 1 Configuration Once the BreezingForms component is installed click on the Configuration link to access the configuration settings z Joomial Site Menus Content Components Extensions Toots Help E Prev
67. d then click on Upload and Install C File Upload Look ex CI beeezingfomns_170_UNZIP_FIRST N L com_breezingforms 170 n 4 mod _breezingforms_170 My Recent pig_breezingforms_170 Scone a eee E IMPORTANT README be 3 E LICENSE tot Desktop Ll mod _breezingfcems_170 59 Dipig_breezingforms_170 zip Di pig_reetuncs zip pD My Documents R Extension 43 My Computer Install Components E File name com_breezingioems_170 zip v Open Cancel My Networ Files of type Ad Files v Upload Package File Package File You will then see the following on screen message D with a reminder E to proceed to 13 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Step 2 to complete installation Extension Manager Install Components Module Plugins Languages Templates Install Component Success 4 successful Installation Message Step 1 Now proceed to Step 2 below BreezingForms component Enhanced form design tool B Next find BreezingForms in the Components menu and click on Configuration to continue with step 2 of the installation process STEP 2 OF 2 To complete the installation go to the menu Components gt BreezingForms gt Configuration Administration Site Users Menus Content Components Extensions Help Admin Tools Akeeba Back breezingformsI Da Banners gt g Contacts gt We Manage Forms Manage Records Manage Forms EasyBl
68. der E to proceed to Step 2 to complete installation Extension Manager Install Components Module Plugins Languages Templates QO Instali Component Success A successful Installation Message Step 1 Now proceed to Step 2 below BreezingForms component Enhanced form design tool B Next find BreezingForms in the Components menu and click on Configuration to continue with step 2 of the installation process STEP 2 OF 2 To complete the installation go to the menu Components gt BreezingForms gt Configuration 19 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Administration Site Users Menus Content Components Extensions Help g Admin Tools Akeeba Backup breezingform Banners gt im Manage Records a Contacts gt Ge Manage Forms Manage Records Manage Forms B EasyBlog gt Wm Manage Scripts S extplorer E Manage Pieces BreezingForms 1 7 5 Stable build 761 Freestyle Support Portal gt a integrator Manage Forms Wm invoice manager gt Ge Manage Backend Menus Title L J2XML Importer Configuration First Time Installation If you are installing BreezingForms for the first time in the Select database install update mode choose New install Create tables drops existing tables F 20 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Site Menus Content Components Extensions Tools Help Manage Records Manage Backend Menus Manage Forms Manage S Installation Step 2 The program has been installed suc
69. ds I need to have my users put numbers in a text field and then show a total amount Can I do that Yes you can Please see the attached PDF document for instructions on how to do so It will work for textfields select lists or a combination of the two Click Here to Download 6 70 Put Form in Lightbox Popup I would like to present a BreezingForms form in a popup using LightBox Can I do that Yes you can Add the code below into the index php of your template let s say as the very first line lt php JHTML behavior modal gt JE Then you can add a link to any of your pages like this lt a href index php option com breezingforms amp amp ff_ name FORMNAME title My Form class modal rel handler iframe size x 570 y 200 gt My Form lt a gt Replace FORMNAME with the name of your form and use the x and y values to define the size for the modal window If it does not work using that code try changing index php to index2 php 6 71 Disappearing Form Elements My form isn t showing checkboxes select lists or other form elements Help What am I doing wrong Are you using a Rocket Themes template by any chance If so some of them have a feature in the advanced settings to turn INPUT STYLING on or off If it is on try turning it off and then check your form again It is often the culprit with this issue 128 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 6 72 Condi
70. e break default switch NumberOfTravelers action Change it to function ff NumberOfTravelers action element action switch action case change 145 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms if element value 1 ff switchpage 7 D Il ll NO else if element valu ff switchpage 2 D Il ll w else if element valu ff switchpage 3 D Il ll DA as else if element valu ff switchpage 4 D Il ll Oo else if element valu f switchpage 5 D Il ll Oy a else if element valu E cade mg _switchpage 6 break default switch NumberOfTravelers action IMPORTANT If your element is named something OTHER than NumberOfTravelers then you need to change the function to match the name For example if your element is named Travelers then the function line would change to function ff Travelers action element action 6 101 Change Field to Uppercase My form data needs to be entered in all UPPER CASE Is there a way to do this 1 In your text element go to the ADVANCED tab 2 Inthe ACTIONSCRIPT section click on Custom 3 Inthe Actions area check the Change checkbox This will tell the script to activate any time the field is changed 4 Click on CREATE CODE FRAMEWORK It s a link though
71. e PDF option You can also choose to log the form values to the database or not and the option of only sending non empty values Once you have made the changes you want there click the SAVE icon in the lower right hand corner of that screen to save those form properties You will then be redirected back to the form properties screen Click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form 6 45 US State Abbreviations Select List 107 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms I need to put all the US states in my form in a select list Do you have a copy of them that I can use without having to retype them all Yes we do Create your select list element and then in the LIST field enter the following code O State 0 AK AK 0 AL AL 0 AR AR 0 AZ AZ 0 CA CA 0 CO CO OFCLTeCr 0 DC 1 O FL FL 0 DE DI DC m H 0O GA GA 07 O O O 3S r r r r HI H A D L I IN I N 0 KS KS 0 KY KY O LA LA MA M M M A D m E z lt Ne r M Ne Z N beet Ea Oo QA Fw Nn z x zal 2a 22 2 2 L Z r Z r N Ne S aly C D E H J M V es D O gt SS an e Z N Z eg S amp S amp Ne Z K Z 0 OH OH 0 O
72. e all colors so it doesn t matter Any color Your options will appear in the list in the same order as you enter them in the Group field If you want to change the order just move them around within that field 59 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms You can also choose to check Wrap each element which would force each choice to a separate line in your form IMPORTANT The database value after the second semicolon must not contain any special characters except for underscores hyphens or spaces Use of special characters may cause the form functionality to fail 4 8 2 Select List How do create a Select List For a select list the format to layout the options is as follows 0 Label Dabatase Value 1 Label Database Value If you put a 0 at the front then the option will not be selected If you put a 1 at the front then that option will be selected If you want to have the first line of a Select List be something like Choose Type then you would set that up like this 0 Choose Type In this case you will notice that there is no value entered after the second semicolon That is because if you put a value in it and then use validation rules that state the element is required any text after that second semicolon would make it appear that a choice had been made If you put no text after the second semicolon then the validation script will still prompt them to select a choice in the fiel
73. e in Joomla s global configuration options On this screen the option should remain set at No e Compress JavaScript and HTML 33 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms If Yes is selected compressing the JavaScript and HTML will reduce the traffic from the server to the browser However if you are trying to debug the code you will need to set this option to No Remember to revert the option back to Yes when debugging is complete e Get provider with GetHostByAddr If you want to know the Hostname of the user filling in the form then select Yes here The information will then be sent to you via the email notification s header as well as being stored in the database Choosing this option could result in a heavier server load and slower response time so unless there is a specific need to get the Hostname it is recommended that the setting be kept at No e Number of lines for textareas With this field you can define for yourself how large the textareas should be This can be used in classic mode where you add scripts and pieces in the other modes on the form settings screen as well as for the Scripts and Pieces Libraries More information will be added in the applicable sections e Limit descriptions in listviews to XX characters This field defines the size of the textarea in the Scripts and Pieces Library that shows the description of each script and piece e Default email notification address In this fie
74. e screens To work with Email settings go to your form s properties gt Advanced tab gt More Options You will now see that there are two new tabs there one for Admin Emails and one for Mailback Emails 47 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms BreezingForms Edit Form Settings Admin Emails Mailback Emails MailChimp Scripts Form piece NEW Title SAMPLE QuickMode Contact Form YW Package QuickModeForms Name SampleQuickModeContactForr CSS class for lt div gt CSS class for lt form gt Ordering 109 SAMPLE QuickMode Contact Form Published P No Yes Run Mode Any j Width 400 px Height Fixed j 500 px Log To Database Nonempty values v 4 5 4 ADMIN EMAILS Click on the Admin Emails tab You will then see a screen that looks like this BreezingForms Edit Form Settings Mailback Emails MailChimp Scripts Form pieces Submit pieces Email Notification To Custom Address Email to your email com Report Nonempyy values i Attachment No x Alternative From Email Alternative From Name Custom Email Subject Edit Emails default custom Save Cancel Email Notifications There are three options available in this dropdown 1 No will not send an Email to Admin 2 To Default Address will send an Email to the default Email address specified in BreezingForms configuration 48 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 3 To Custom Address will s
75. e your actual values like so 0 Please Select 0 Title l valuel O Title 2 value2 O0 Title 3 value3 You will notice that there is no value assigned in the top row That is so that if you want to create a validation rule forcing a user to make a selection your Please Select row won t be counted as an actual selection To validate the rule you should choose is FF ff_valuenotempty 6 42 Adding Links to Labels want to add a link to my checkbox label so my visitors can click the link to view our terms and conditions before checking the box How do I do that In BreezingForms Version 1 7 3 Build 740 and higher you can use basic HTML in the LABEL field of QuickMode So just create a checkbox element and then in the Label field enter something like I agree to lt a href http mysite com terms html target _blank gt Terms and Conditions lt a gt 106 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Click on the SAVE PROPERTIES button to save the changes to the element and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself In Version 1 7 2 and lower the label doesn t allow hyperlinks What you could do instead is to create a section with properties of normal all in a row that houses two more nested sections each with properties of normal wrap after each element In the first section which will essentially be the
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77. ecked Validation Type None 58 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms There is no need to add a validation rule or type to this field because it will be connected automatically to the rule in the previous password field Then click on SAVE PROPERTIES to save the changes you made to the element IMPORTANT If you change the name of the first textfield from password to something else let s say YourPassword for example then in the second textfield you will need to change the name field to YourPassword_repeat The word in front of _repeat MUST match the name given to the first field 8 Once the two elements have been added and their properties saved you now need to save the form itself To do so click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen Then preview your form and test it out 4 8 1 Radio Group How do create a radio group Radio groups are best used when you want to display all the options at one time and allow the user to select only one of them For a radio group the format to layout the options is as follows 0 Label Dabatase Value 1 Label Database Value If you put a O at the front then the radio button will be blank If you put a 1 at the front then that option will by default be marked as the choice For example if you want to offer a user a choice of one color out of a group you might code it as follows 0 Red Red 1 Blue Blue 0 Green Green 0 I lik
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83. end an Email to the custom Email address that you enter in the Email to field below the dropdown It s probably obvious but remember to change it from your email com to the Email address you want the admin Email sent to Report In the Admin Email that is sent you can choose to report Send the following data 1 Header only will only send the header data 2 Nonempty values will send data from all fields which were completed but will not send data from fields that were left empty 3 All values will send data from all form fields whether completed or not Attachment You can choose whether to send an attachment with the Admin Email The options are No do not send attachment XML send form data in XML format CSV send form data in CSV format PDF send form data in PDF format RPWONER Alternative From Email Alternative From Name By default BreezingForms uses the Email address and name defined in your Joomla global configuration settings as the From name address for form emails There may be times however when you want the From field to show a different name and or Email address If so you can specify those here Custom Email Subject If you want the Admin Email to have a custom subject that will appear in every Email sent for this form you can define it in this field Edit Emails 1 Default uses the default Email template or custom template if you have created one as described in this sectio
84. ent URL instead of using the thank you page that the form creates Create an END SUBMIT piece 88 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Form Properties gt Advanced Tab gt More Options gt Submit Pieces Tab Then click on CUSTOM in the END SUBMIT section and paste in the following code Sthis gt execPieceByName ff InitLib ff redirect myThankYouPage php f you are redirecting to a page outside of your server then it hould be coded like this n this gt execPieceByName ff_InitLib i f redirect http www yourDomain com page html f your form is displayed in an iFrame and you want the page you are redirecting to to break out of the iFrame and appear in the main window use this code instead this gt execPieceByName ff_InitLib f redirect myThankYouPage php parent or if redirecting to a page outside of your server this gt execPieceByName ff_InitLib ff redirect http www yourDomain com page html parent Remember to replace the myThankYouPage php or http www yourDomain com page html with the correct URL for your thank you page Once you have added that code click on the SAVE button at the bottom of that screen You will then be taken back to the form s property screen Click on SAVE PROPERTIES to save
85. er the submit To do this go to your form s properties gt Advanced Tab gt More Options Then click on the SUBMIT PIECES tab and scroll down to the END SUBMIT section Click on the CUSTOM radio button and in the textarea that opens add the following code Code Sthis gt execPieceByName ff InitLib echo lt form name myresubmit action YOUR TARGET URL gt lt input type hidden name sSomefield value htmlentities ff getSubmit somefield gt lt input type hidden name somefield2 value htmlentities ff getSubmit somefield2 gt lt input type hidden name somefield3 value htmlentities ff getSubmit somefield3 gt 117 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms lt and so on gt lt form gt lt script gt document myresubmit submit lt script gt T exit Remember to replace the somefield variables with your field names 6 59 Center Submit Button Is there a way to center the submit button To center the submit button add the following code to your template css file or theme css file In Build 730 and higher you will find them at joomlaRoot templates TEMPLATE NAME template css Imedia breezingforms themes THEME NAME theme css Add this code bfQuickMode bfSubmitButton float none margin left 45 6 60 Gap in Form Headings am trying to create my firs
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87. erties Learn more about advanced form properties QuickMode Advanced Form Properties From the Advanced tab you can define a number of form effects as described below a MH breezingforms 9 Manage Records Manage Backend Menus Manage Forma Manage Scripts Manage Pieces integrator Configas ation Newpage New section New element Save properties Form Options A link to additional form options will appear here once the form has been saved using Save icon above Other Options Theme detoult v Use alerts on errors o Fading efect on form oO entry Rollower l Rollover color tte Visibiity nies Save properes Form Options More Options Once you have saved the form a link to More Options will appear where noted on the image above On that screen you will see the following tabs e Settings e Scripts e Form Pieces e Submit Pieces Other Options 43 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms e Theme With BreezingForms versions 1 65 and higher the ability to select and customize themes for forms is now included however this feature is only available in QuickMode Version 1 7 0 of QuickMode provides two themes Qmtheme which is a clean light blue theme and Default which has no defined colors Version 1 7 1 has added additional themes These themes can easily be customized via CSS e Use Alerts on Errors If you have set any of your form fields to validate an error message is generated if a fiel
88. essfully now Next step is creating or updating the database tables respectively The installation automaticly detects if you are upgrading from a previous version und proposes the correct mode However you should still check if this really is ok for your configuration You can also choose to install optional packages It is recommended to install the standard samples since they are a major source of information Please check the matching options and then click on Continye to proceed Select database install update mode i New install Create tables drops existing tables Reinstalling 1 4 Table structures are up to date Select optional packages o Sample forms Samples oa Reinstalling or Upgrading If you are reinstalling or upgrading BreezingForms then in the Select database install update mode choose Reinstalling 1 4 Table structures are up to date G You have the option to load the sample forms with your installation If you d like to do so check the box to the left of Sample forms Samples H Click on Continue to complete installation and you should see the following message 21 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Wlelepa le Site Menus Content Components Extensions Tools Help Manage Records Manage Backend Menus Contact form Manage F Configuration Installation Complete The database operations have now been performed according to your settings Below you see a list of the
89. etElementByName SELECT 3 value Number 135 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms ERlementByName SELECT 4 value 4 1 66 Replace the names SELECT with the real names of the select lists you are using and you should be fine 6 85 Copied Form Not Retaining Validation Rules I have a form created in Quickmode and have a number of fields that are required have ticked the necessary Required box and selected the FF ff_valuenotempty validation script but the form still submits with empty fields What s wrong There is sometimes a problem when using a copy of a form where the form gets duplicated but the elements don t map correctly causing a conflict in the database The workaround is to copy the original form by creating a package http crosstec de support index php pid knowledgebase amp cmd viewentclient amp id 77 Then once saved install the package with the form back into the form list Then open the form you just installed you can tell which one it is because it will have a higher ID number and save the form once as it is Once you have done that rename the form click on the SAVE PROPERTIES button to save the change you just made and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself Those steps somehow remap everything so it all works properly again 6 86 Redirect U
90. f getSubmit email Sfromname ff getSubmit fname ff getSubmit lname Srecipient your email com Change to Your Admin Email Address Create the Body format for use in e mail foreach Sthis gt maildata as data if data _FF DATA TYPE Hidden Input Sbody data _ FF DATA TITLE data _FF DATA VALUE nl Sthis gt sendMail Sfrom S fromname Srecipient Sbody This line actually emails the form 3 Make Changes to the Code as Needed IMPORTANT The above code assumes that the First Name element on the form is actually called fname minus the quotes in the NAME field underneath the label and that the Last Name element on the form is actually called Iname minus the quotes in the NAME field underneath the label Also remember to change youradminemail yourdomain com in the last line of code to your actual admin email address 4 Once you have edited and copied the code go to Form Properties gt Advanced Tab and click on the More Options link 5 Goto the SUBMIT PIECES tab to the END SUBMIT section and click on the CUSTOM radio button That will open a text area into which you should paste the code that you just edited and copied 6 Click on the SAVE icon at the bottom of that screen to save the code you just added 93 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 7 Once back at the base page of your form click o
91. ff HOWEVER there are some who feel that is a SECURITY RISK so you should discuss this with your web host before implementing any changes Here is an article that explains some ways to limit the risks to some extent http www askapache com htaccess mod_security htaccess tricks html 6 8 Calendar Changing Font Colors Is possible to change the faded text for weekends You can hardly see it Yes it is BreezingForms calls the Joomla calendar function into the form You should find their CSS file here yourJoomlaRoot includes js calendar calendar mos css And here is the CSS you are looking for Code calendar thead name line 37 border bottom width 1px border bottom style solid Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms border bottom color cccccc padding top 2px padding right 2px padding bottom 2px padding left 2px text align center color 000000 calendar thead weekend line 44 color dedede It s the weekend part of that you need to change 6 9 Calendar validating date in the past How to command the calendar function to have a warning message when they choose the past date That requires a custom validation for the calendar item calendar item gt validation gt click custom gt click generate code framework Inside the generated function you put this between and such that it looks like this function ff CA
92. h As you click the checkboxes on and off the amount owing will be updated with the correct sums 6 2 Embed Form in Article How do embed a form inside an article Before you can embed a form within an article you need to install the BreezingForms plugin and then enable it in your Joomla application s plugin manager Once enabled it can be embedded into an article using the syntax described below Note If the plugin has been enabled and your syntax correctly entered as noted below but your article is still not displaying you might need to go to Extensions gt Plugin Manager gt BreezingForms and change the use iFrame option in the plugin parameters from YES to NO or vice versa Build 730 amp Higher Pattern syntax BreezingForms formname page border urlparams suffix AllowFormEdit RemoveExisti ngSubmissions Note the variables shown in italics in the syntax above are OPTIONAL Please see examples below for proper use based on your needs Parameter description BreezingForms This tag must be present literally and in exact upper lowercase formname The name of the form to include also in exact upper lowercase page The starting page number Defaults to 1 when omitted border O no border 1 with border Defaults to 1 when omitted urlparams Parameters to pass in URL style no commas or closing brackets allowed suffix Suffix appended to all CSS class names in
93. hat First copy one of the theme folders e g QMtheme and rename the folder to MyTheme or whatever name you want to give it Next take a look at the HTML source code for your form Every form element is assigned a unique ID selector which can be used to add custom styling to the form For your checkbox group element locate the unique ID selector and then define it in your new theme css file as follows Code ID OF DIV width 100 6 63 Printing a Form We want our users to be able to print out their form Is there a way to do that 119 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Yes there is First on the form properties screen make sure that the INCLUDE SUBMIT BUTTON option is set to NO and then click on SAVE PROPERTIES Now you need to create a summary page for your form If you don t Know how to do that please see the section How To Create a Form Summary Once you have added all of your summarize elements create a new element with the following properties Type Submit Button Label Print Name PrintButton Value Print Page Click on the SAVE PROPERTIES button and then go to the Advanced tab Scroll down to the ACTIONSCRIPT section of the page and add the following settings Type Custom Actions Click should be CHECKED Click on the words CREATE CODE FRAMEWORK An alert will appear that says Create code framework for action now Existing code will be appended Click on
94. his by creating a BEFORE FORM PIECE To do that go to your form s properties gt Advanced Tab gt More Options then click on the PIECES tab In the BEFORE FORM section click on the Custom radio button and add thecode below IMPORTANT You will need to change the 999 in the code below to the ID of your form To find the ID number go to Components gt BreezingForms gt Manage Forms You will find the ID number for your form in the Script ID column To set a limit on the number of submissions change the 100 in the load result line to whatever number of submissions you want to allow You will also need to replace the URL in the Header Location to the URL for your Limit Exceeded notice page Code db JFactory getDBO Sdb gt setQuery Select count id From facileforms records Where form 999 if Sdb gt loadResult gt 100 replace index php with the url to an article explaining that the max am ount has been reached header Location index php exit 131 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 6 76 Select List Generates Database Error I am trying to create a form with a drop down list but when I test it it generates this error message 500 No validdatabaseconnection If I turn off the select list the error goes away Is there a fix for this We have had some reports of this happening on Joomla installations that use Joomfish Please t
95. ide the element Title position Choose whether to put the label to the left right top or bottom of the checkbox Initscript By default set to NONE Actionscript By default set to NONE 55 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms REMINDER Any time you make changes to the settings remember to click on the SAVE PROPERTIES box to save the changes to the element Then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself 4 7 2 Checkbox Group How do I create a checkbox group Checkbox groups are best used when you want to display all the options at one time and allow the user to make multiple choices For a checkbox group the format to layout the options is as follows 0 Label Dabatase Value or 1 Label Database Value If you put a O0 at the front then the checkbox will be blank If you put a 1 at the front then that option will by default be checked For example if you want to offer a user a choice of one color out of a group you might code it as follows 0 Red Red 1 Blue Blue 0 Green Green Q I like all colors so it doesn t matter Any color Your options will appear in the list in the same order as you enter them in the Group field If you want to change the order just move them around within that field You can also choose to check Wrap each element which would force each choice to a separate line in your form IMPORTANT The database value
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97. ion or element you can define a style for it 6 80 How to Add Google Analytics Code Is there a way to add Google Analytics tracking code to my form The easiest way to do this is to create a separate Joomla article as your thank you page and add your Analytics code there Then in your form you will want to redirect to that thank you page after submit Take a look at URL for Thank You Page 6 81 Hidden Sections and Validation Rules have a form that has several sections that are not visible unless a certain radio button is checked When I submit the form the validation scripts for the elements within the hidden section are still triggered How can prevent these validation scripts from operating if the section is hidden 134 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Check to see if you have one or more sections or fieldsets nested inside each other If so then the validations won t turn off due to performance reasons Please rearrange the sections or fieldsets so the section holding the fields won t be nested in a parent section Then it should work Another possibility would be to create rules for every field rather than by section but this could require a lot more visibility rules 6 82 Foreign Characters Not Displaying Correctly l am trying to build a simple form but all submitted values with foreign letters for example Z d are showing as an question mark How do fix this Please che
98. it doesn t look like one A popup dialog box will appear that says Create code framework for action now Existing code will be appended 5 Click OK Code will then appear in that textarea that looks something like this function ff ElementName_action element action 146 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Switch action Switch action case change break default switch ElementName_ action Change ElementName in the first and last line of the code to match the NAME of your text element This should be done automatically when you click on Create Code Framework 6 Change that code to function ff ElementName_action elem action if action change elem value elem value toUpperCase return elem ElementName_ action 7 Click on the SAVE PROPERTIES button at the bottom of the screen to save the changes to the element 8 Click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself 9 Test it out it should work 6 102 How do make a textfield Read Only in EasyMode To make a text element read only in EasyMode please do the following 1 Click on the Form Settings icon at the top of the page 2 Goto the SCRIPTS tab 3 Inthe Initialization Script section click on Custom 4 Click the Create code framework text It s a link A popup will
99. ize Elements Are Empty I created summarize elements using the instructions found in the KnowledgeBase but when I test my page the summaries are all empty How can l fix this For reasons we have not yet been able to determine the summarize fields occasionally just do not take even if they have been coded correctly One workaround we have found is to try copying the elements that contains your summarize elements and then paste them back in again 121 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms To do so highlight the element name in the left hand directory tree then right click on it and click on COPY Next highlight the Page line in the directory tree that contains your summarize elements right click on it and then click on PASTE Once you have done that for each element you need to delete the original elements that you created They should be the ones at the top of the page Your copied elements will show up below them Now open up each of the summarize elements and make sure they are correctly mapped to your original elements Click on SAVE PROPERTIES for any summarize element that you have to change and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself Section Short Cut If your summarize elements are contained within a section this becomes much easier You can then highlight the SECTION name in the left hand directory tree right click on it and click on
100. latively simple to add it yourself by using the End Submit piece Basically you would pass the necessary form variables to authorize net as described in the Send Field Values to a Different URL Tip The fields that authorize net needs are described in their integration documentation 6 5 Exception Caught by FacileForms Error l am trying to get a form working but keep getting this error EXCEPTION CAUGHT BY FACILEFORMS PHP error level E WARNING PHP filename home public_html plugins system zend Zend Loader php 77 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms PHP linenumber 146 Error message include_once Zend Json Exceptions php function include once failed to open stream No such file or directory This exception is a warning for coding standards in PHP and can be safely disabled in your php ini file Please change the error reporting in the php ini to The actual value in your php ini should be used only for sites in development and not for production sites 6 6 Euro symbol in Front of Calculated Amount I created a form with calculation elements The calculation elements calculates the value of several list elements within a section and present it as a value So far so good In the list element I created a list 0 09 volw 2200 2200 so the viewer sees 2000 But in the calculation field it simply shows 2000 What do I have to do to show the sign Same question if it is a do
101. ld please enter the default Email address you wish to use If you wish to add more than one Email address separate them with semi colons like this EmailAddress1l EmailAddress2 EmailAddress3 The first Email address will become the REPLY TO address and it plus any additional Email addresses listed after it will receive a copy of the form but only if the MAIL RECIPIENTS field in the form properties for a specific form is left blank e Path for ff_images substitute Unless you have changed the default directory name for BreezingForms this should be left as Is e Path for ff_uploads substitute Unless you have changed the default directory name for BreezingForms this should be left as Is Once you have finished making changes click on the SAVE icon at the bottom of the screen 4 3 Packages What is a package 34 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms There may be times when you want to copy one of your forms to another domain Perhaps you created it on a test site and now need to install the final version on your client s server or maybe you ve created a custom form for use on all of your client sites Using BreezingForm s Package option in the BreezingForms configuration screen copying forms from one domain to another is a BREEZE as long as the other domain is running Joomla with the SAME OR A NEWER VERSION of the BreezingForms extension There may be some instances where it could be backwards compa
102. lement name return message else if ff_getElementByName repeat _repeat value element value if message message element name and repeat _repeat do not match n ff_validationFocus repeat _repeat 57 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms return message catch e return e description return 5 Click on the SAVE icon at the bottom of the screen to add the script to your library list 6 Now go to your form and create a new element for the user to enter their password into The element should have the following settings Type Textfield Label Enter Password Name password Value Size and Max length fields can be left blank If you want to add a hint you can do so in the Hint box In the VALIDATION section enter the following settings Required Checked if you want an asterisk to appear beside the form element Validation Type Library Error Message Please enter a password Script FF ff_password_repeat Then click on SAVE PROPERTIES to save the changes you made to the element 7 Create a new element for the user to re enter their password The element should have the following settings Type Textfield Label Repeat Password Name password_repeat Value Size and Max length fields can be left blank If you want to add a hint you can do so in the Hint box In the VALIDATION section enter the following settings Required Unch
103. lement s ADVANCED tab and in the ACTIONSCRIPT section do the following Type Library Actions Click checkmark Script FF ff_validate_nextpage Then SAVE PROPERTIES to save the element Do that for each page EXCEPT the one on which the submit button will be placed as well as your Thank You page if you have specified one On the page that will contain your submit button create a new element with settings as follows Type Submit button Label Submit Name submit or whatever you want to call it Value Submit Then go to the element s ADVANCED tab and in the ACTIONSCRIPT section do the following Type Library Actions Click checkmark Script FF ff_validate_submit 110 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Then SAVE PROPERTIES to save the element Once are of your buttons have been created click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself You will likely have to make some CSS adjustments to your SUBMIT button settings to get the placement of it the way you want it but this will at least get the function there for you 6 48 Collect Page Title in Form Details I have my form set up in a module position want to collect the title of the page that they are on when they submit the form To capture the page location create a new element of type HIDDEN INPUT For this example let s name that element PageTitle The value field in the element should be empty Cli
104. llar This is my code function ff myanswer_ action element action ff getElementByName myanswer value 0 if ff getElementByName cateringvolwassene value ff getElementByName myanswer value Number ff getElementByName cateringvolwassene value ee Number _getElementByName cateringkinderen value Please try this instead Note the Euro symbol in single quotes near the bottom of the code E function ff myanswer_ action element action EE getElementByName myanswer value 0 ae i Ef getElementByName cateringvolwassene value EE _getElementByName myanswer value 78 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Pe Number ff getElementByName cateringvolwassene value Number ff getElementByName cateringkinderen value ff getElementByName myanswer value ff getElementByName myanswer value 6 7 Flash HTTP Error When I try to upload a file using the Flash uploader I get an HTTP error How can I fix it Flash apparently has a known but not yet fixed bug in the Upload header that causes an http error if mod_security is enabled Some articles suggested that adding the following lines to your htaccess file may solve it SecFilterEngine Off SecFilterScanPOST O
105. m foowbar FacileForns testforn 4anp ff_paran_foorbar nywuf fix But attention with the following one Basicty it would work but when using a WYSIWYG editor it will insert linebreaks as lt br gt and the bot will mo longer recogniz pattern t FacileForns RaotherForn 1 9 fang ft param xy 1234amp ff param foobar For Easier Use here is a copy of the code Requirements e The BreezingForms component must also be installed Same version e The bot must be published Pattern syntax BreezingForms formname page border urlparams suffix Parameter description BreezingForms This tag must be present literally and in exact upper lowercase formname The name of the form to include also in exact upper lowercase 24 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms page The starting page number Defaults to 1 when omitted border 0 no border 1 with border Defaults to 1 when omitted urlparams Parameters to pass in URL style no commas or closing brackets allowed suffix Suffix appended to all CSS class names in the form Examples BreezingForms SampleContactForm BreezingForms MyVeryForm2 BreezingForms AnotherForm 1 0 samp ff param xy 123samp ff param foo bar BRreezingHorms TeSt O m p camp EE param OO bar MySuUr iix But attention with the following one Basically it would work but when using a WYSIWYG editor it will insert line breaks as lt br g
106. mSP 3 Translate all items for each form 112 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 4 Publish the master form as a regular BreezingForms menu item 5 Translate the published menu item using Joomfish and in the formname field use the unique name as described above e g myFormFR or myFormSP You will see that this is a lot faster and less stressful than using Joomfish 6 51 Translating Forms to Other Languages It looks like only Classic Mode supports Joomfish How can I translate my QuickMode and EasyMode forms to different languages 1 Create a master form in English 2 Make one copy of the master form for each language that you need and give each copy a unique name For example myFormFR or myFormSP 3 Translate all items for each form 4 Publish the master form as a regular BreezingForms menu item 5 Translate the published menu item using Joomfish and in the formname field use the unique name as described above e g myFormFR or myFormSP You will see that this is a lot faster and less stressful than using Joomfish 6 52 How Do Create a Hidden Menu I need to publish an article on my site but I don t want to show it in the menu Is there a way to do that Yes there is Go to Menus gt Menu Manager and then click on the NEW icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen In the screen that opens enter the following information Unique Name hidden or invisible or whatever
107. messages returned from the database The next step is to check the program configuration Finally first timers should go to Manage Forms and check out the samples to get into business Choose from the menu Components BreezingForms Configuration to proceed with the configuration nov No messages have been generated Continue 3 3 Install the Plugin The BreezingForms plugin enables you to embed a form within an article on your Joomla site To install the plugin please follow the steps below Log into your Joomla administrator and go to Extensions gt Install Uninstall Extensions Help LB Extension Manager Module Manager Plug in Manager Template Manager g Language Manager In the extension manager under Upload Package File click on the BROWSE button A and navigate to the unzipped BreezingForms folder You must unzip the initial BreezingForms download file before you start Select the package plg_breezingforms_ version zip click OPEN B and then click on Upload and Install C 22 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms File Upload Look irc LI breezingforms_170_UNZIP_FIRST 3com_breezingforms_170 EG mod _breezingfcens_170 My Recent O pig_breezingforms_170 Documents L com_breezinoforms_170 2i IMPORTANT README txt eC LICENSE txt D mod _breezingforms_170 2Ip wb pig_breezingrorms_170 zip T plg_mmtuncs zip A My Documents 3 My Compute
108. n Name do additional_themes com_breezingforms_175 mod_breezingforms ces plg_breezingforms 2 L THEMES_INSTALL_README e fcase S New folder Date modified 6 7 2012 6 41 PM 5 3 2012 12 10 PM 11 29 2010 12 53 22 2011 10 50 AM 2 6 2012 9 41 AM fos Type Size File folder zip Archive 1 7 zip Archive zip Archive Text Document 2 Now unzip the com_breezingforms_ version zip file i e com_breezingforms_171 zip Once unzipped you should have a folder which contains the following Include in library Share with Burn Name d admin site breezingforms ces A install 5 2 uninstall e fcase s New folder Date modified 7 2 2012 11 49 PM 7 2 2012 11 49 PM 25 2012 6 33 AM 25 2012 6 33 AM 25 2012 6 33 AM e e A Type Size File folder File folder XML Document PHP Script PHP Script 3 Next login to your server via FTP or through cPanel s file management system and navigate to the tmp directory in your Joomla root Double click on it and then create a new directory which we ll call bf_install for the purpose of this example 17 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Ag B KA iat nload Delete Rename Edit Code Editor eR erm HTML Change View Extra Compress Editor Permissions Forward A Reload Select all m Unselect al ey bf_install Al index html gt 4 Once created double click on the bf_in
109. n of the KnowledgeBase http crosstec de support index php pid knowledgebase amp cmd viewcatclient amp id 52 2 Custom This is a new feature in BreezingForms 1 7 3 You can now create a quick Email template using a simple tagging system When you click on the Custom button a new section will appear as follows 49 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Custom Email Subject G Edit E Name label Name value Send as HTML C No Yes email label email value message label message value W All fields that are in use in your form will be displayed in this column Click on one of the bracketed links in the left hand column and it will then be displayed in the textbox on the right Within that textbox you can manipulate the layout as you wish Name label i Name value Send as HTML No Yes X Click on one of email label lt the bracketed Name label Name value email value i links in the left hand gt email label email value message label column It N4 message value Will then ee appearinthe message label textbox on the right Once there you can manipulate the layout as needed For example add a colon between the label and value or increase line spacing etc message value If you choose the YES button to send as HTML then you can wrap the labels and values within paragraphs use different fonts and colors etc
110. n the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself 8 Test your form to see if it works l like this but want to send my form to multiple Admin emails Can do that Yes you can Just replace the last line of code with Sthis gt sendMail from fromname yourAdminl email com subject Sbody This line actually emails the form E subject Sbody This line actually emails the form d Sthis gt sendMail from fromname yourAdmin2 email com d W Mail Sfrom Sfromname yourAdmin3 email com subject e rorm Sthis gt sen Sbody This line actually emails the Can be added as many times as needed one for each Email address you need to send out 6 27 File Upload Timestamp Fix When files are being uploaded the timestamp appears in the extension Is there a way to make it appear before the filename instead This code will add the date before the filename and keeps the extension intact In Build 730 and higher open the following file Icomponents com_breezingforms facileforms process php Look for line 3821 normal upload path SbaseDir Suserfile name if Stimestamp path date YmdHis if file _exists path Srnd md5 mt_rand 0 mt_getrandmax path baseDir rnd _ userfile
111. n the email address Right now it just says Form record received Go to your form s properties gt Advanced tab gt More Options On that screen near the bottom you should see a field where you can enter a custom Email subject Add it there then click the SAVE button at the bottom of that screen When you are taken back to the properties screen click on SAVE PROPERTIES and finally to save the form itself click on the SAVE icon in the upper righthand corner of the screen That should do it 6 50 Reduce Spacing Between Label and Field How do I change the amount of space there is between the form label and the field Go to your theme css file In Build 730 and higher it should be located in media breezingforms themes THEME_NAME theme css In Build 729 and lower it should be located in components com_facileforms themes quickmode THEME_NAME theme css Look for bfQuickMode bfInline bfLabelLeft bfElementGroupNoWrap input type text width 48 You can change that percentage to whatever you want I changed the width in my forms to 22 which seemed to layout fairly nicely Your mileage may vary It looks like only Classic Mode supports Joomfish How can translate my QuickMode and EasyMode forms to different languages 1 Create a master form in English 2 Make one copy of the master form for each language that you need and give each copy a unique name For example myFormFR or myFor
112. nd it should then appear in the filename field 9 Now click on the INSTALL PACKAGE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen 10 You ll then be directed to a Package Installation Report Click the CONTINUE icon at the bottom of the screen 11 Now that part is done so go to the MANAGE FORMS section and re open your form 12 Once open click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen RANE D Now test your form It should advance properly through the pages Click Here to Download 6 38 Error Too Much Recursion My multi page form won t advance to the next page When I check the Firefox error console I see this message Error Too Much Recursion What do I do To fix this you need to reinstall the script library To do so follow these steps Go to Components gt BreezingForms gt Configuration Click on PACKAGE INSTALLER at the bottom of the screen Look in the list for stdlib english and put a check in the box to the left of it Click on the UNINSTALL PACKAGES icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen An alert will appear asking if you re sure you really want to uninstall the package It s okay be brave Do it You ll now be back at the PACKAGE INSTALLER screen Unzip the attached zip file and save the included stdlib english xml file to somewhere on your hard drive 7 Now we want to reinstall that package By default the radio button for UPLOAD PACKAGE FILE 1 FROM CLIEN
113. nd this happening check your plugins to see whether you have one called System SC jQuery If you do go into the plugin settings and change Enable plugin for backend from YES to NO Then test it again 6 91 Can t Add Any More Elements to My Form I am creating a form but I get to a certain point and it won t let me add any more elements Help For some reason this sometimes happens if you are using Internet Explorer to create your form It becomes painfully slow to save the form too 139 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Please try creating editing the form in Firefox or Chrome to see if that resolves the issue If the same thing happens in those browsers please contact support for further assistance 6 92 How to Make Text Disappear When Field Clicked Instead of using labels want to put hints in the field values that will disappear when a user clicks on them How do I do that Create a new text element or textarea element For the purpose of this example give it the following properties Type Textfield OR Textarea Label Message Name message Value Please write your message here The other fields can be completed however want Go to the element s Advanced tab In the ACTIONSCRIPT section add the following Type Custom Actions CLICK and BLUR should be checked In the textarea that opens enter the following code Code function ff message action element action switch
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115. ne is to uppercase the incoming name on a 13 form save data copy 14 12 Now open the SampleContactForm itself enter some data and submit 15 13 Now go open phpMyAdmin and browse to the jos_users table and you will see the new entry For updates it is a little bit more difficult If you need assistance please contact support 72 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 6 FAQ s Coding Tips and Ideas Here is a list of FAQ s Ideas and Coding tips you may want to utilize on your next project We try to cover every scenario as best we can Please remember that that for the Paid or free version of Breezing forms the thing that are and are not included Included in support Installation help General usage help NOT Included in Support Custom programming Consulting Fixing of 3rd party caused issues Sometimes from time to time we do custom programming and assisting with 3rd party issues but they are in no way included within the free or paid subscription or we are obligated to provide support for NOT included items 6 1 Calculating Checkbox Sums How do I get my form to calculate amounts from checkboxes 1 Create a form using QuickMode 2 Add your checkbox fields 3 a Give them whatever LABEL you want but make sure the NAME is something easy For this example the names are d11 d12 d13 d14 d16 d18 and dlo that last one is a lowercase letter o for open not the number zero b Give them a VALUE
116. ng a form When I get to a new form field it is trying to fill in other information from a previous form I just want it to be blank Autocomplete is a function of your browser BreezingForms has no influence on this does nor does it fetch any input from earlier sessions You could check to see if it is being stored in Joomla caching and if so turn caching off Otherwise please see the documentation of your browser on how to deactivate the autocomplete function 144 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 6 100 Change Page on Condition I have a booking form where the user will have the option of adding details for additional travelers Is there a way can change the page conditionally based on the number they select You can do this by putting a custom action on the element For example if you are using a select list to show the number of travelers say from 1 to 6 your list would look like this 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 3 3 0 4 4 0 5 5 0 6 6 For the purpose of this example let s name the element NumberOfTravelers Then go to the Advanced tab of the select list Type CUSTOM Action CHANGE third checkbox from the left Click on CREATE CODE FRAMEWORK A screen will popup that says Create code framework for action now Existing code will be appended Click on OK In the text area you will see something like this function ff NumberOfTravelers action element action switch action case chang
117. o save the form click on the Save icon in the upper right hand corner of the page 4 5 2 Advanced Form Options Learn more about advanced form options and settings QuickMode Form Options More Options Settings The Settings tab carries forward some settings initially defined elsewhere and allows you to change them and or define some additional parameters such as the order you want the form to appear in whether it will run in the frontend or on the backend admin side and so on For more information on each individual element please read on Breezingforms Edit Form Settings Tie My Fiest Form T Name myfirstform T CSS class for lt div gt CSS class tor lt form gt Ordering O My First Form v Published O mo ves Run Mode Ary v Width 400 pe v Height Fiwed v 500 px Log To Database Nonempty valves Y Email Notification To Custom Address YW Email to mefrmyoompary com Report Nonemoty values Y XML Attachment No v Custom mal subject Descriptiorc 4 12 20 My first one page form e Title This field will automatically carry forward the title you defined when you created the form If you change it here then save the settings at the bottom of the page and then save the form itself your old title will be overwritten with the new one you just defined e Name 45 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms This field will automatically carry forward the form name you defined when you created
118. ocus If your form contains only one page or one page and a thank you page do the following 1 Go to the Advanced tab of the first element on your form 2 Scroll down to the Initscript section and add the following settings Type Custom Form Entry or Page Entry Put a checkmark beside FORM ENTRY Script FF ff_getfocus 3 Then click on SAVE PROPERTIES to save the changes you just made to the form element 116 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 4 Now click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself If your form contains multiple pages then follow steps 1 4 above for the first page On subsequent pages do the following 5 Go to the Advanced tab of the first element on the second third fourth etc page of your form 6 Scroll down to the Initscript section and add the following settings Type Custom Form Entry or Page Entry Put a checkmark beside PAGE ENTRY Script FF ff_getfocus 7 Then click on SAVE PROPERTIES to save the changes you just made to the form element 8 Now click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself Make sure that you only use the focus script in ONE element on a single page 6 58 Send Field Values to a Different URL I want to send my form values to a URL instead of sending them in an email message Can I do that Yes you can Just re submit the values using a hidden form right aft
119. og gt a Manage Scripts SC extplorer im Manage Pieces BreezingForms 1 7 5 Stable build 761 Freestyle Support Portal gt it integrator Manage Forms Wm invoice manager gt Ge Manage Backend Menus F Title l5 J2XML Importer wa Configuration First Time Installation If you are installing BreezingForms for the first time in the Select database install update mode choose New install Create tables drops existing tables F 14 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Site Menus Content Components Extensions Tools Help Manage Records Manage Backend Menus Manage Forms Manage S Installation Step 2 The program has been installed sucessfully now Next step is creating or updating the database tables respectively The installation automaticly detects if you are upgrading from a previous version und proposes the correct mode However you should still check if this really is ok for your configuration You can also choose to install optional packages It is recommended to install the standard samples since they are a major source of information Please check the matching options and then click on Continye to proceed Select database install update mode i New install Create tables drops existing tables Reinstalling 1 4 Table structures are up to date Select optional packages o Sample forms Samples oa Reinstalling or Upgrading If you are reinstalling or upgrading BreezingForms then in the Select da
120. ontact for or a complex Room Booking Form this component is right for you Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 2 Getting Started 2 1 Subscription Plans Disclaimer Our subscription plans are especially targeted on people and businesses that need frequent updates and support Each plan includes the following services e Unlimited use of all extensions or templates if a template club has been chosen from the plan selected No support per domain restrictions No limits on numbers of installations and servers infinite use beyond expired plans no hidden extra costs e Unlimited access to all extensions or templates if a template club has been chosen that are included in your selected plan during the course of your subscription e Unlimited access to all updates of extensions that are included in your selected plan at any time during the course of your subscription e Unlimited access to video tutorials documentations and our knowledgebase with tips and best practices e Club Forum access with prioritized answers from our team The 6 months plan includes 6 months access to all extensions or templates if a template club has been chosen that are included with your selected plan 3 months of support The 1 year plan includes 12 months access to all extensions or templates if a template club has been chosen that are included with your selected plan 6 months of support The 1 year plan includes 12 months access to all extensions o
121. oomla s Registration Form 2 Can replace or enhance Joomla s registration form need more information than it asks for Try this End Submit piece it works really well for me Code Begin create user global Smainframe JFactory getLanguage gt load com_user Sthis gt execPieceByName ff InitLib Suser clone JFactory getUser 81 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Spathway amp S mainframe gt getPathway Sconfig amp JFactory getConfig Sauthorize amp JFactory getACL Sdocument amp JFactory getDocument If user registration is not allowed show 403 not authorized SusersConfig amp JComponentHelper getParams com_users if SusersConfig gt get allowUserRegistration 0 echo lt script gt alert Access forbidden history go 1 lt script gt return else Initialize new usertype setting SnewUsertype SusersConfig gt get new_usertype if SnewUsertype SnewUsertype Registered Bind the post array to the user object Spost array name gt ff getSubmit name username gt ff getSubmit email Temail gt ff getSubmit email password gt ff getSubmit bfSubsPassword password2 gt ff getSubmit bfSubsPassword task gt register save tid gt 0 gid gt 0 7 if Suser gt bind S post usert
122. open that says Create code framework for init now Existing code will be appended Click OK You should then see text in the textarea that looks something like this 76 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms function ff FormName_init ff FormName_ init Between the curly brackets add this code setInterval ff getElementByName TARGETFIELD value ff getElementByN ame ORIGI NALFIELD value 500 So the end result will look something like this function ff FormName_init setInterval ff getElementByName TARGETFIELD value ff getElementByN ame ORIGI NALFIELD value 500 ff FormName_ init In the code above change TARGETFIELD to the name NOT Label of the element that you want the previously entered data inserted into Change ORIGINALFIELD to the name NOT Label of the element that will capture the data initially the first instance of the element Then click the SAVE button at the bottom of the Scripts tab Once returned to the form click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself Then test it it should work 6 4 Does BreezingForms Support Authorize net I need to use authorize net for my payment gateway Does BreezingForms support it Authorize net is not yet implemented natively in BreezingForms but it is re
123. opping down when it s moused over Why would this happen Some possible reasons for this are 1 The tmp folder at your Joomla root isn t writable Permissions should be set to 0755 2 The path to the tmp folder is incorrectly stated in Joomla s Global Configuration settings The installation process requires use of the tmp folder while in progress and if it is not available the installation will not finalize 3 5 3 Installation Fails with JFolder Error Q When I try to install BreezingForms get an error that says JFolder create Could not create directory Warning Failed to move file What do I have to do to get this installed 1 Check your FTP settings and make sure that they are correct If they are correct but you are still getting that error then try 2 below 27 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 2 Go to Help gt System Info gt Directory Permissions and make sure that your directories are writable If not it would definitely affect the ability to install save changes etc Below is a link to the Joomla Help site where they discuss the need for writable directories Start at this page http help joomla org screenbooks JoomlaHelp_web Joomla B1_Installation Books B3_The_Jo omla_Installer slide05 htm And then click through the slides for more information Here is another post with additional information http forum joomla org viewtopic php t 121470 Try changing permissions as they
124. ossible You will need to write a Before Form Piece a small PHP script that gets executed before the form is loaded Within it you can specify a SQL statement query the database and put the results into your form The values of a select list have the form 0 foo bar so all you need to do is to dynamically build a string with the desired values and then provide it to the function mentioned below Here is asample Before Form Piece Sthis gt execPieceByName ff InitLib Stest for i 0 i lt 10 i Stest 0 Product Si value Si n function ff setSelectList name value global ff processor for Sr 0 r lt Sff processor gt rowcount r t Srow amp ff processor gt rows r if Srow gt name Sname Srow gt data2 value unset row for 100 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms ff setSelectList ff setSelectList selectl Stest To use it Go to your form s properties and then to the Advanced tab gt More options In the popup window that opens select the tab Form pieces In the BEFORE FORM section choose the Custom radio button Paste your script in there and then make changes as needed You will probably want to replace the static for loop with your SQL query 6 35 Send Me a Copy Checkbox I want to give my users the option to have a copy of an email sent to them rather than just sending it a
125. osstec Breezing Forms Hint If you feel the element needs a hit tooltip enter it here VALIDATION SECTION If you want the element to be validated then use the following settings Required If checked an asterisk will appear to signify the element is required Does not actually validate the field Please see this KnowledgeBase article for more information about validation Validation Library Error Message Please check or uncheck the checkbox to agree to terms or whatever you want it to say Script FF ff_checked to verify that the checkbox has been checked or Script FF ff_unchecked to verify that the checkbox is NOT checked Then click on the SAVE PROPERTIES button ADVANCED ELEMENT OPTIONS There are additional options under the ADVANCED tab as follows Only send to corresponding mailback field when checked Used when checkbox is for a Send a copy to my Email request Name of textfield that is marked as mailback If you are using the checkbox for the Send a Copy functionality then in this field you should enter the NAME not the label of the textfield element that collects the user s Email address Hide Label Check this if you want to hide the label assigned in the element s properties screen Logging Uncheck this field if you do not want to log the value to the database or email Order number Can be left as it is Tab number Can be left as it is Turn off Check this box if you want to h
126. otes in the field underneath the Label field e Puta checkmark in the Validation box and then click on the radio button to the right of the word e Custom in the next line Enter an error message for example Please enter a valid 10 digit number without dashes periods or brackets Click on Create code framework It doesn t look like a link but it is A javascript popup will appear which says Create code framework for validation now Existing code will be appended Click on OK In the text area that opens delete all of the code which is currently there and replace it with function ff telephone validation element message if isNaN element value amp amp element value length 10 return return Please enter a valid number exactly 10 digits telephone validation e Click on SAVE PROPERTIES e Click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen e Test your form It should work 6 17 How To Create a Form Summary 86 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms How do I create a summary for the fields in my form First make sure that you have PAGING INCLUDE set to Yes in the form properties To do the summary create a new page and then for each element you want to add to the summary page you will need to Add a new element In the TYPE field choose SUMMARIZE from the dropdown list The
127. ption you will have two other fields to complete Report Choose to Email the header only nonempty values or all values FORMS_ATTACHMENT You can choose whether or not to send the form data as an attachment to the Email If yes you may choose from one of the following formats XML CSV or PDF e Custom Mail Subject If you would like to include a custom subject in the Email confirmation you are sent you may do so here e Description The description field will carry forward the form description that you specified on the Form Properties page If you d like to change or enhance it you can do so here You will see three numbers in square brackets beside the Description title Each one reflects the number of lines to be displayed in the text area If you click on 4 a four line text area will be displayed Likewise if you click on 12 or 20 a 12 or 20 line text area will be displayed e Save Settings Once you have finished making changes on this screen you must click on the SAVE icon at the bottom of the screen 4 5 3 Email Settings in BreezingForms 1 7 3 and Higher Changes have been made to the way Emails are handled in BreezingForms 1 7 3 Please see below for details In previous versions of BreezingForms some of the settings for Email options determined how Emails would be handled for both the Admin emails and the Mailback emails As of version 1 7 3 this has changed Both functions are now handled in separat
128. pture an Email address For more information on how this option works please see this KnowledgeBase article FF ff_valuenotempty Validates that the field value is not empty Can be used with the following elements Textfield Textarea Select List Hidden Input Calendar Regular Upload Element Non Flash 4 8 4 Summarize Element How do I create a summary for the fields in my form First make sure that you have PAGING INCLUDE set to Yes in the form properties To do the summary create a new page and then for each element you want to add to the summary page you will need to Add a new element In the TYPE field choose SUMMARIZE from the dropdown list The LABEL can be named the same as the original field The NAME should be a unique name You can either leave it with the name automatically assigned by the extension or give it a new unique name not already in use elsewhere on the form 5 In the CONNECT WITH dropdown choose the field that you want to pull the summary information from It will list all of your fields so it is easy to choose 6 Each time you add an element click on SAVE PROPERTIES 7 When you are finished adding your summary fields remember to click the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen PwWNP PayPal Element 64 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms How do I set up the fields on the PayPal element Please see the attached PDF file which provides step by
129. r attempt to hack BreezingForms has been registrated What s wrong 132 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Check to see whether the folder PACKAGES in administrator components com_breezingforms is writable If it is not that could be one reason why you are getting this message You could also try enabling the Joomla FTP layer to see if that removes the error Another possibility is that there could be an ownership error The packages folder should be owned by the webroot If you change the permissions on the folder to 777 and the error message disappears when creating a package then that can be a clue that ownership is the issue 6 79 Use Select List to Jump to Different URL want to make a dropdown box where if they choose one option it will go to one URL option 2 would redirect them to a different URL option 3 to yet another URL and so on Is that possible Yes it is First create a select list element For the purpose of this example we will name the element Choose In the List field of the element put 0 Choose Page O Choicel Title Page 1 0 Choice2 Title Page 2 0 Choice3 Title Page 3 Replace Choicel Title Choice2 Title Choice3 Title with whatever text you want to show in the dropdown list Now go to the Advanced tab of your select list element In the Actionscript section make these changes Type Custom Actions Change the third checkbox from the left
130. r templates if a template club has been chosen that are included with your selected plan 6 months of support Reaction time is usually within 24 to 48 hours You will receive adequate and professional answers to each of your support requests but there is no guarantee on reaction times Under certain circumstances weekends public holidays and heavy workload there might be delays If communicating with our support make sure your email address given to support is correct and check your spam folders if answers seem overdue Support languages Native English Native German Included in support Installation help General usage help 10 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms NOT Included in Support Custom programming Consulting Fixing of 3rd party caused issues 2 2 Refunds We grant refunds on a case by case basis Please contact our support if you feel you should receive a refund In general there are no refunds based on subjective experiences like but thought it can do this or it is not easy The features of each extension are explained clearly and there are demos and videos available that give a broad overview if the extension fits your level of experience On doubts please contact the support before purchasing There is also no refund possible on support matters For example a 3rd party extension template is causing conflicts with one of our extensions it is up to the 3rd party developer to fix
131. rm in a module position So let s get you started The first thing you ll need to do is Download and Unzip BreezingForms Download the latest BreezingForms package BreezingForms_ version _UNZIP_FIRST zip The newest version of BreezingForms is available here The older free version of BreezingForms is available for download at the Joomla Extensions Directory Unzip the package using your favorite file extraction program Once unzipped your file folder should look something like this Include in library v Share with Burn New folder Name Date modified Type Size additional_themes 6 7 2012 6 41 PM File folder 5 at com_breezingforms_175 5 3 2012 12 10 PM zip Archive Ei mod_breezingforms 11 29 2010 12 53 zip Archive ces E pig_breezingforms 8 22 2011 10 50 AM zip Archive 2 THEMES_INSTALL_README 2 6 2012 9 41 AM Text Document e fcase 3 1 Install the Component STEP 1 OF 2 Log into your Joomla administrator and go to Extensions gt Install Uninstall 12 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Extensions Help i Extension Manager Module Manager Plug in Manager Template Manager amp Language Manager In the extension manager under Upload Package File click on the BROWSE button A and navigate to the unzipped BreezingForms folder You must unzip the initial Breezing Forms download file before you start Select the package com_breezingforms_ version zip click OPEN B an
132. rosstec Breezing Forms Thanks to Stefan Mortelmans for contributing the code 6 28 Next Page Doesn t Go to the Top of the Page When I click on the next page button it doesn t return to the top of the page How can I fix it so it does 1 Goto Components gt BreezingForms gt Manage Scripts Click on Validate and Next Page Add self scrollTo 0 0 at the bottom of the function just before the ff_validate_nextpage line The script should now look like this function ff validate nextpage element action if typeof bfUseErrorAlerts undefined Sjq bfErrorMessage html Sjq bfErrorMessage css display none error ff validation ff currentpage if error if typeof bfUseErrorAlerts undefined alert error else bfShowErrors error cr _validationFocus else f_switchpage ff_currentpage 1 self scrollTo 0 0 ff validate_nextpage You might want to make the same change to other scripts that provide page navigation such as Next Page ff_nextpage Previous Page ff_previouspage 96 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 6 29 White Screen How to Fix When I try to submit my forms I get a white screen on the front end How do fix it Here is some potential solutions to this issue 1 The RokCandy macro component messes up other components unles
133. ry fits you best QuickMode A form editor for the non programmer and people who want their forms to be done very quickly but nice looking EasyMode A form editor for layout centric form creation Very powerful but simple in usage Ideal for designers ClassicMode Awysiwyg editor for creating forms For technicians and fans of FacileForms Feature QuickMode EasyMode ClassicMode Target Audience Non Programmers Designers Technicians Custom validations and actions yes yes yes Display Type Managed Layout based Free float Display Edit Records front or backend yes yes yes MailChimp Integration yes yes yes Ajax File Uploads Progress Bar yes no no Turn fields on off conditionally yes no no Summary item yes no no Maxlength for textareas including counter yes no no Built In validations and actions yes yes yes All many Form elements All many special special All Captcha Multipage forms yes yes yes Reply To fields yes yes yes Custom mail subjects yes yes yes Mail templates yes yes yes File attachments yes yes no Form import and export yes yes yes Database storage yes yes yes CSV PDF amp XML export yes yes yes Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Data integration yes Captcha reCaptcha for QuickMode yes Calendar item yes PayPal includes pay to download file yes DirectPayment Sofortiberweisung yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes no no So whether you re looking to build a simple c
134. ry changing your database from mysql to mysqli in Joomla s Global Configuration settings and see if that fixes it 6 77 Remove Field Label From Tooltips The tooltips for my form show the field label before the tip Is there a way to remove it Usability rules typically say to repeat the label of a field in the tooltip so that is how BreezingForms has been set up You can remove it with a hack though To do so open administrator components com_breezingforms libraries crosstec classes BFQuickMode php Around line 902 903 look for this line StipScript lt script type text javascript gt lt n JQuery bfLabel Smdata dbId qtip position adjust screen true content lt b gt addslashes trim mdata label lt b gt lt br gt str_replace array n r array n addslashes content j t Sstyle et n gt lt seript gt and change it to StipScript lt script type text javascript gt lt n JQuery bfLabel Smdata dbId qtip position adjust screen true content str_ replace array n r array n addslashes content yorum style A RATo gt lt script gt That should do it 6 78 Abuse Warning Error I am trying to export a package of a form created so I can move it to a new site When I click on the continue button for Create Package I get ABUSE WARNING You
135. s Desktop a Extension Install Components k a Fie name plg_breezingforms_170 29 v Open i j My Network Fies of type All Files v Cancel Upload Package File Package File Once successfully installed you ll see the following screen which will also provide you with information on how to use the plugin 23 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Joomla Site Menus Content Components Extensions Tools Help amp Preview o 8i Extension Manager install Components Modules Plugins Languages Templates iastan mambot success BreezingForms FacileForms mambot Displays forms inline in contents Requirements The Facileforms component must also be installed same version The bot must be published Patiern syntax FacileForm formnase page border arlparams suffix Parameter description FacileForms This tag must be present literally and in exact upper lowercase formarne The name of the form to include also in exact upper lowercase pege The starting page newber Defaults to 1 when omitted border Geno border lewith border Defaults to 1 when omitted urip rans Parameters to pass in VEL style no commas or closing brackets allowed suffix Suffix appended to all CSS class names in the forn Examples FacileForm SampleContactForm PacileForm My eryForm 2 i FacileForms RnotherForm 1 0 Gamp ff param xy 12 4arp ff para
136. s and elements while on the right side you have access to numerous form and element properties 40 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms breezingforms IMPORTANT Click this icon to save the form itself Manage Records Manage Backend Menus Manage Forms Manage Scripts Manage Pieces integr ator Configuration ree Provecies ot naanced Save pecpener lt lt This saves ONLY the properties on this screen Form properties Title My First Form Name rryfirstionn Descripton My first one page fora Last page is thank you page Mail notification y Mail recipienXs me mycompany com Include submit button ves No O Submit buton labe submit Paging include Yes O No Nest page label ned Previous page label back Include cancel button yes No Cancel buton labe reset Save popesies lt lt This saves ONLY the properties on this screen e Title QuickMode will generate a Title for the form automatically You can change the title at any time under the Form properties In the example shown above the form Title is My First Form e Name QuickMode will generate a Name for the form automatically You can change the name at any time under the Form properties In the example shown above the form Name is myfirstform Important The form s Name field provides a way to reference the form ina script and in the Joomla component itself We therefore recommend that you avoid using special charac
137. s should be completed as follows Choose the file type DELIMITED not Fixed Width Start Import at Row 1 Click NEXT Delimiter should be or depending on which you entered in the configuration Text qualifier should be unless you have changed it Click NEXT You can choose format for each column if you d like to use it then click FINISH Your data should now open in column form 31 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 4 1 2 Export Records to Excel In my Manage Records section created a CSV file but when import it into Excel it s all bunched up in the first column How do fix it If you go to Components gt BreezingForms gt Configuration you will see that there are some variables at the bottom that affect how your CSV file is exported You could try changing the comma separator to a semicolon which one to use depends on which version of Excel you have You could also try switching the linebreak setting from Normal to Masked or vice versa Also this information found on the Microsoft website might help ISSUE All of the text in the file appears in the first column ClIIAeCOECCTEN FIV if my gt usertype Super Administrator amp amp my gt usertype Administrator ea Boag Se Ae eee Slee Seek Setar se eee Note There must be enough blank columns to the right of the selected column to accommodate the columns of data you want to create or the data to the right of the selecte
138. s within a page or a section At the page level your text would appear above the form To do so click on the Page title in the left hand tree and then click on the EDIT link to the right of the word INTRO in the right hand properties Within the editor that opens you can add HTML images etc To place text elsewhere in the form create a new section where you want the text to be placed and then click on the EDIT link that will appear in the right hand element properties Within the editor that opens you can add HTML images etc 4 8 9 Summarize Elements Are Empty BUG 67 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms I created summarize elements using the instructions found in the KnowledgeBase but when I test my page the summaries are all empty How can l fix this We have identified a bug where the summarize elements will not be filled in if you have the Fading effect on form entry selected in the form property s Advanced tab If you have that box checked please uncheck it and see if that resolves the issue for you If it does not try copying the elements that contains your summarize elements and then paste them back in again To do so highlight the element name in the left hand directory tree then right click on it and click on COPY Next highlight the Page line in the directory tree that contains your summarize elements rightclick on it and then click on PASTE Once you have done that for each element
139. s you go into the Component gt RokCandy settings and turn off all of the Basic macros there are about 6 of them You can leave all the special template overrides active as they only apply to the RT templates and don t muck with anything else Once did this was able to see my forms without any problem Thanks to Kelly for sharing your solution Since One com upgraded PHP we have been getting a white screen found a working solution If you are having this problem and One com is your webhost try configuring the Joomla e mail settings as follows Mailer SMTP Server Email your email com replace this with your Email address From name of the websit the name you want in the FROM field Sendmail pad usr sbin sendmail SMTP authentication No SMTP security none SMTP port 25 SMTP username empty SMTP password empty SMTP host mailout one com Thanks to Erik for sharing your solution 6 30 Select Lists for Email to Different Addresses Is it possible to send emails to different departments depending on what a user selects Yes it is In QuickMode in the Select List element s Advanced tab there is a Mailback checkbox If you check it the values of your select list items will be used as Email addresses to send the Form record received Email The List would look something like this Bug bugs yourcompany com E ormation info yourcompany com les sales yourcomp
140. ser to a Different URL based on Select List Choice My form has a drop down list with several choices Once they have filled in all the fields on the page and click SUBMIT want to redirect the user to another web page based on the choice they made in the drop down list Is this possible Create a select list as you would normally For this example we ll name it pick and give it the following variables 0 First Choice valuel 0 Second Choice value2 0 Third Choice value3 Save your element properties then save your form Now go to your form s properties gt Advanced tab gt More Options gt Submit Pieces tab In the END SUBMIT section click on the Custom radio button In the text area that opens enter the following code Sthis gt execPieceByName ff InitLib 136 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Svalue ff getSubmit pick switch value case valuel header Location http crosstec de exit break case value2 header Location http crosstec de forums html exit break case value3 header http crosstec de support getstarted exit break In the value line change pick to the name of your select list element In the case lines change value1 value2 and value3 to the values of your select list choices and then change out the location URLs for whatever URLs you want to redirect to Click the SAVE button at the bottom
141. splay your entire form e Log to Database If you want to retain form entries from your site BreezingForms gives you the ability to log entries to the database In this field you can choose from one of three options o No No entries will be logged o Nonempty values Fields that include data will be recorded o All values All form fields will be logged to the database e Email Notification This field allows you to choose whether or not you want to receive copies of submitted forms via Email There are three options available o No Email will not be sent o To Default Address Forms will be sent to the Email address you defined as the default in the Configuration section of BreezingForms If you select this option you will have two other fields to complete 46 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Report Choose to Email the header only nonempty values or all values FORMS_ATTACHMENT You can choose whether or not to send the form data as an attachment to the Email If yes you may choose from one of the following formats XML CSV or PDF o To Custom Address If you specified a different Email address to send the forms to on the Form Properties page it will automatically carry forward to this field If you hadn t previously specified a custom Email address or addresses to send the form to you may do so here For multiple Email addresses you must use a semicolon to separate them If you select this o
142. stall folder to open it 5 In the left hand directory tree in your FTP tool or cPanel screen navigate to the folder where you unzipped the com_breezingforms_ version zip file and double click on it Then select all of the folders and files in that window for upload into your tmp bf_install folder a alg F HTML Change View Extract Compress Editor Permissions Forward site breezingforms xml com_breezingforms_175 zip install php uninstall php Your tmp bf_install folder on the right hand Remote System side should now contain all of the files and folders shown in the left hand Local System side of the screen above 6 Log in to your Joomla administrator and go to Extensions gt Install Uninstall 18 Users Guide Extensions Help d Extension Manager Module Manager Crosstec Breezing Forms Plug in Manager Template Manager g Language Manager Chopi pr gorwovov 7 Inthe Install From Directory field specify the path to the tmp bf_temp directory that you just created Note The text below is only anexample You will likely need to include the full path to your tmp bf_install folder Then click on the INSTALL button J Extension Manager Install Components Modules Plugins Languages Templates Upload Package File Package File Upload Install from Directory Install Directory Install You will then see the following on screen message D with a remin
143. states for your box add more or less depending on your amount of checkboxes of your group if you have checkboxes that are initially checked set the corresponding value here to true var checkedBoxes false false false for var i 0 i lt document ff_form140 elements length i if document ff_form140 elements i type checkbox amp amp document ff_form140 elements i name ff_nm_mygroup if document ff_form140 elements i checked checkedBoxes 1i true else checkedBoxes i false the rules apply here add or remove rule depending on your amount of checkboxes if checkedBoxes 0 amp amp checkedBoxes 1 Il checkedBoxes 2 return You can only check box 1 if checkedBoxes 1 amp amp checkedBoxes 0 II checkedBoxes 2 return You can only check box 2 if checkedBoxes 2 amp amp checkedBoxes 0 II checkedBoxes 1 return You can only check box 3 return end validation CHANGES REQUIRED 1 Replace all instances of ff_form140 in the code above with the formname of your form To find thE formname code view the form s sourcecode Then search for this code ff_processor form_id The generated formname will follow immediately after that 66 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 2 Replace all instances of mygroup in the code above with the name of your checkbox group You can find the name in the field underneath the LABEL field in
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145. t and the bot will no longer recognize the pattern BreezingForms AnotherForm i 0 amp amp ff _param_xy 123 amp amp ff_param_foo bar 3 4 Install the Module 1 Log into your Joomla administrator and go to Extensions gt Install Uninstall 5 Extensions Tools Help amp Module Manager Plugin Manager ij ET Template Manager Manager Frome Language Manager 25 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 2 Inthe extension manager under Upload Package File click on the BROWSE button A and navigate to the unzipped BreezingForms folder You must unzip the initial BreezingForms download file before you start 3 Select the package mod_breezingforms_ version zip click OPEN B and then click on Upload and Install C File Upload Look ix 3 breezinglorms_170_UNZIP_FIRST v eE L com_breezingforms_170 4 lt 2 mod _breezingforms_170 My Recent ole_breeaingfcerms_170 Documerts n com_breezingforms_170 zip E IMPORTANT README txt Ei E LICENSE txt mod _breezingforms_ 170 20 T plgbreezngf cens _170 5p D pig_merfuncs zip My Documearts pr My Computer al Extension Install Components i Tah Se e File name mod_breeznglome_170 ap v Open J My Network Files of type Al Files v Cancel Upload Package File Package File 4 Once successfully installed you ll see the following screen J Extension Manager Install Components Mod
146. t form but I am having trouble with it displaying properly When add a field set there is a break in the graphic What can I do to fix it Look in your CSS files for a stylesheet called reset css Line 59 of reset css has this code form div margin 1l0px 0 It is that margin that is causing the gap between your heading and the form itself Try setting it back to 0 and that should fix it 118 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms For more information please see this forum post 6 61 Adjust Label and Input Position How do I adjust the position of the label vs the input field in QuickMode It appears that the standard configuration splits the columns 50 50 Is there a simple way to adjust this ratio throughout Yes there is Just add this code to your template css file Code bfQuickMode p input type text bfQuickMode p textarea bfQuickMode p select width 55 bfQuickMode bfLabelLeft label width 35 You can adjust the width percentages there to whatever you prefer It is recommended that you add this code to your template css file instead of the BreezingForms system css file because you would lose the changes the next time you upgrade the extension 6 62 Custom CSS for Sections and Elements I have a checkbox group with a number of options can t get the values to display across the entire form They break into two lines Is there a way to fix t
147. tabase install update mode choose Reinstalling 1 4 Table structures are up to date G You have the option to load the sample forms with your installation If you d like to do so check the box to the left of Sample forms Samples H Click on Continue to complete installation and you should see the following message 15 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Wlele pao Site Menus Content Components Extensions Tools Help Manage Records Manage Backend Menus Contact form Manage F Configuration Installation Complete The database operations have now been performed according to your settings Below you see a list of the messages returned from the database The next step is to check the program configuration Finally first timers should go to Manage Forms and check out the samples to get into business Choose from the menu Components BreezingForms Configuration to proceed with the configuration nov No messages have been generated Continue J 3 2 Alternate Component Installation STEP 1 OF 2 Occasionally Joomla s Extension Manager will fail to install the component If that happens please take these steps instead 1 Unzip the initial BreezingForms zip file breezingforms_ version UNZIP_FIRST zip i e breezingforms_175 UNZIP_FIRST zip Once unzipped you should have a folder which contains the following 16 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Include in library Share with v Bur
148. tal gt Se integrator invoice manager gt Gm Manage Backend Menus id l J2XML Importer S Configuration 5 M JCE Editor gt ans a a Module Manager Extension Manac ka Joomla Update onfiguration Template Manager rs Messaging gt M Newsfeeds gt ir dy t NoNumber Extension Manager Sf Zi Phoca Download s up to date Once you re on the Manage Forms screen click on the green QuickMode icon as circled below 39 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms i Administration Joomia Kicwarcocme Oio Sie Usora Menus Content Componenten Extensione Heip Rovers Bison 0 Btrovew Breeton 2 22228 Manage fac head Meat Manage Recot Manage forms Mans npt Manage Peca aiig ma ad hak Package semcies z name Poors vnn Height SeriptiO Published er Oeserip Contact form SampleContactForm Using tana for page nagasaon Sample TabNumigation 123 y Country selecton SenpleCounty Select Pieca senang mail SampiePieceanp Emteddea pap coce Samplee mpedaeacoce v Pizza shop SamplePizasnop 123456 x 7 Roert Rea dance contest registration RarContestRegist y Rock Ro dance contest patpicant ust RnrContestust 1 Sutm Content Supmacentant z Submet Content Preview SubmitConlertPrevew 1 ots Contact torm SampleContactf orm y Using tabs for page nagasaon Sample TabNavgaton 123 4 5 Form Properties You will see that the QuickMode screen is comprised of two areas On the left side you can add new pages section
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150. ters and or blank spaces in the form name e Description Enter a short description about your form This will appear in your list of forms on the Manage Forms screen 41 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms e Last Page is Thank You Page If you check this option your form page will refresh and the respondent will see a Thank You message on the page indicating that their form has been submitted If you would like to redirect a respondent to a completely different URL please click here for instructions on how to do that e Mail Notification If you want to send a copy of the form results to an Email address then please check the box for Mail Notification e Mail Recipient s If you want to send a copy of the form results to an Email address or multiple Email addresses other than the default Email address that you entered on the configuration form then enter it here To enter multiple Email addresses please use the format below EmailAddress1 mycompany com EmailAddress2 mycompany com EmailAddress3 mycomp any com e Include Submit Button If you want to include a Submit button at the bottom of your form please choose Yes here If you would prefer to include a Submit button that uses a custom graphic please click here for instructions on how to do so e Submit Button Label If you are using the default Submit button for your form rather than one using a custom graphic you can choose to label it
151. that is a dollar value My values for this example are 35 00 35 00 35 00 35 00 45 00 55 00 and 70 00 C 3c For each checkbox click on the ADVANCED tab and create an ACTIONSCRIPT event using CUSTOM and check the action CLICK In the code framework box put in this Code function ff_d11_action element action ff_amountowing_action element action Make sure you change the title to match the NAME of this checkbox So for box d12 it would look like this Code 73 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms function ff dll _action element action ff amountowing action element ac tion and so on Make sure you click SAVE PROPERTIES after each field is created 4 a Create a text field with the NAME amountowing and a VALUE of 0 b On the ADVANCED tab click on READ ONLY so that people can not alter the amount Under the ACTIONSCRIPT set it to CUSTOM You do not need to click on any of the checkboxes as this script runs from the checkboxes on your form the ones you created in step 2 c In the code framework add this Code function ff_amountowing_action element action ff_getElementByName amountowing value 0 if ff_getElementByName d11 checked ff_getElementByName amountowing value Number ff_getElementByName amountowing value N umber ff_getElementByName d11 value if ff_getElementByName d12 checked ff_getElementByName amountowing value Number ff_get
152. that page you can include HTML images etc So add the text images that you want and then click on the SAVE button at the bottom of the screen Click on the SAVE PROPERTIES button Click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen NOOR W 91 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms You do not need to add any special coding or scripts The form should progress from the first page to the thank you page on a successful submit 6 26 FROM Field Displayed as Submitter Name amp Email Address How do change the form so that the Email s FROM field shows the name and Email address of the person who submitted the form IF YOUR NAME FIELD IS CONTAINED WITHIN ONE FIELD 1 In your form s properties make sure that the Mail Notification checkbox is UNCHECKED 2 Copy the code below global mosConfig_mailfrom mosConfig_fromname my this gt execPieceByName ff_InitLib from ff_getSubmit email fromname ff_getSubmit name recipient your email com Change to Your Admin Email Address Create the Body format for use in e mail foreach this gt maildata as data if S datal_FF_DATA_TYPE Hidden Input body datal_FF_DATA_TITLE data _FF_DATA_VALUE nl this gt sendMail from fromname recipient body This line actually emails the form 3 Make Changes to the Code as Needed IMPORTANT The above code assumes that the
153. the element properties screen 3 Also note the instructions included within the comments of the code above 4 8 6 File Upload Restrict Allowed Extensions Can restrict the Allowed file extensions that a user can upload You can specified the allowed extensions in the File Upload element Go to the Advanced tab of the form and in this field Allowed file extensions you can see that the default allowed extensions are Zip rar pdf doc xls ppt jpg jpeg gif ong You can modify that as you wish Just note that you should NOT put a dot before the extension name 4 8 7 Form Text Won t Save l am trying to save text in a page but no matter what I do it won t save Why not This happens with sections too Are you using JCE as your text editor If so there is currently a known bug that we are trying to resolve but switching to TinyMCE has worked for the users that have reported the issue to us When creating text there are three things that you need to do in order to save it 1 Click on the SAVE icon at the bottom of the text entry WYSIWIG screen 2 Click on the SAVE PROPERTIES button to save the form element 3 Click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the text itself 4 8 8 Is There a Way to Add Text to My Form Is there a way to add text to my form I don t want to put it in an element but I need it placed beside or underneath it Yes you can add free text in BreezingForm
154. tible and work on a site running an earlier version but this cannot be guaranteed though in most cases it should work with a form created using Classic Mode When you create a package you are actually creating an XML file which can then be shared with others To send it via Email though you might have to zip the file first as not all Email applications webhosts will accept XML files 4 3 1 Creating a Package How do I create a package To create a package for installation on another domain here s what you ll need to do Go to Components gt BreezingForms gt Configuration In the BreezingForms configuration screen you ll see this Save Package Installer d Create Package Cancel e Click on Create Package at the bottom of the Configuration screen 35 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Manage Records Manage Backend Menus Manage Forms Manage Scripts Man FacileForms Create Package D i Package Name mypok_001 Package Version 0 0 1 Package Title My First Package Author Name My Name Author Emait my name my doman Author URL httpd my domain Description This is the frst package that created Copyright This FacteForms package is released unde the GNLIGPL foense Form Selection Backend Menuitem Selection Quick Mode Forme Quick Foem 1877 116992 Quick ModeFormes QuickFoem429602905 Quick ModeFormes test t Form 1 Select all Clear selection Select all Clear selection Script Selection Piece Sele
155. tion Report In the Mailback Email that is sent you can choose to report Send the following data 1 Header only will only send the header data 2 Nonempty values will send data from all fields which were completed but will not send data from fields that were left empty 3 All values will send data from all form fields whether completed or not Attachment You can choose whether to send an attachment with the Mailback Email The options are No do not send attachment XML send form data in XML format CSV send form data in CSV format PDF send form data in PDF format PONE Alternative From Email Alternative From Name 51 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms By default BreezingForms uses the Email address and name defined in your Joomla global configuration settings as the From name address for form emails There may be times however when you want the From field to show a different name and or Email address If so you can specify those here Custom Email Subject If you want the Mailback Email to have a custom subject that will appear in every Email sent for this form you can define it in this field Edit Emails 1 Default uses the default Email template or custom template if you have created one as described in this section of the KnowledgeBase http crosstec de support index php pid knowledgebase amp cmd viewcatclient amp id 52 2 Custom This is a new feature in BreezingForms 1 7
156. tion Error When I test my form it generates a Could not instantiate mail function error and the form isn t sent What s wrong That error message is usually generated if your Joomla Global Config mail settings are not right It could be that you need to use Sendmail or SMTP instead of PHPmailer most common or it could be that there is an error in your Email settings First try chchanging your Global Config first to sendmail and see if the Email goes through without an error being generated If it does then that was the issue If it doesn t then try again but changing the mail setting to SMTP If neither of those remove the error please contact support 6 89 Calendar Doesn t Display in French I want my calendar to display dates etc in French How can I do that There is no native French translation of the calendar but you can do so manually In version 1 7 3 go to Icomponents com_breezingforms libraries js calendar lang There you will see a file called calendar en GB js Make a copy of that file and rename it to calendar fr FR js then edit the translations there Once you have done that the calendar should be in French 6 90 Unable to Drag or Drop Elements in EasyMode I m trying to create a form in EasyMode but I can t drag any of the elements to the form screen What s wrong Some templates install a version of jQuery called SC jQuery It appears to conflict with BreezingForms in the back end So if you fi
157. tional Rules and Fieldset Borders set up some conditional sections that are hidden unless a certain option on my form is selected However the borders of the hidden areas show up for some reason How can hide the hidden sections when the section isn t active You can get around this by enclosing your FIELDSET section within a NORMAL section To do that create a new section For demonstration purposes let s call this Section1 Leave the Title blank delete any text displayed by default Now go to the Advanced tab and place a checkmark in the TURN OFF checkbox Click the SAVE button to save your new element Next in the directory tree on the left hand side drag the original FIELDSET section into the new NORMAL section you just created Let s call this section Section1Fieldset Go to the advanced tab and uncheck the TURN OFF checkbox Click the SAVE button to save your changes Do this for each of the fieldset sections that you need to hide Now you need to go to the form s Advanced tab to change your conditional statements like so turn on section SectionlFieldset if OriginalElementl is yes turn off section SectionlFieldset if OriginalElementl is no That should do it 6 73 Visibility Rules Remove Border Around Hidden Sections When a visibility rule is hidden there is still a border around the empty fieldset How can I make it so that doesn t show You can get around this by enclosing your FI
158. ules Plugins Languages Templates Install Module Success FacileForms module Displays forms in module positions Requirements The FacileForms component must also be installed same version The module must be published 26 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 3 5 Installation Errors You May Receive 3 5 1 Timeout Errors White Screen on Installation Q When try to install the BreezingForms component get a timeout error What should I do If you receive timeout errors or a white screen when trying to install the component then it is likely that you don t have native zip support installed and or activated with your php installation If you encounter this error you can make your life easier by enabling it in your php ini file or if you are the administrator install it if is not already installed For Windows machines using XAMPP you would do this by removing the in the php ini extension php_zip dll If you do not activate native zip support Joomla uses an alternative way of unzipping which seems to be a lot slower OR causes an infinite loop You could also try using the alternate installation method described here 3 5 2 Components Menu on Installation Shows All BreezingForms Links Separately Q After installed BreezingForms the components menu shows all the links separately like Manage Records Manage Forms etc instead of showing the BreezingForms menu with the other links dr
159. ust one sq file in the package 3 BACKUP YOUR DATABASE 4 Import the sql file into your database If your database prefix is something other than Joomla s default jos_ prefix you will need to change that in the SQL file before importing it 5 Download the latest Upgrade version of BreezingForms via the My Files link at crosstec de and upload the files folders to your server as noted in the ReadMe included with the upgrade zip file 6 Once complete go to your Joomla administration to Components gt BreezingForms gt Configuration You should now see the Step Two Installation screen 7 If this is an upgrade from a previous version choose the option to keep exisiting tables If it is a NEW installation choose the option to create tables 8 Click CONTINUE to finalize the component installation You can then optionally install the module and plugin Click Here to download need URL 6 25 Create Thank You Page How do I make a thank you page in my form For your QuickMode forms please follow the steps below 1 Open your form On the right hand side you will see the form properties 2 Within the form properties put a checkmark in the box that says Last page is thank you page Include submit button radio button should be set to YES Paging include should be set to YES Click on the SAVE PROPERTIES button Now create a new page Page 2 Click on the EDIT link under the page properties beside intro On
160. utomatically with the mailback Can I do that Yes you sure can Here s how 1 Make sure you set up a textfield element for your user to add their Email address to In the NAME field for purposes of this example call it email 2 Go to the Advanced tab of your new Email element and check the MAILBACK checkbox 3 Click on SAVE PROPERTIES to save the changes you made to the element itself 4 Just before your submit button and or Captcha image create a new checkbox element a For the LABEL field enter something like Send Copy to My Email b For the NAME field enter something unique such as email_sendcopy c Inthe VALUE field enter something like Copy Sent 5 Go to the Advanced Tab of the checkbox element and check the Only send to corresponding mailback field when checked checkbox 6 Inthe field Name of textfield that is marked as mailback enter the NAME that you gave your Email element For our example we called it email 7 Click on SAVE PROPERTIES to save the changes you made to the element itself 8 Click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the actual form 9 Test it out it should be working 6 36 White Screen on Install I just tried to install BreezingForms and when I clicked the Upload and Install button just got a white screen What should I do The problem for this and many other installations encountering this error is due to a time out in PHP This can
161. value Number ff getElementByName amountowing value Number ff getElementByName d13 value if ff getElementByName d14 checked ff getElementByName amountowing value Number ff _getElementByName amountowing value Number ff getElementByName d14 value if ff getElementByName d16 checked ff getElementByName amountowing value Number ff _getElementByName 104 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms amountowing value Number ff getElementByName d16 value if ff getElementByName d18 checked ff getElementByName amountowing value Number ff getElementByName amountowing value Number ff getElementByName d18 value if ff getElementByName dlo checked ff getElementByName amountowing value Number ff getElementByName amountowing value Number ff getElementByName dlo value Note that to see all of that code you may have to scroll across But you can just copy it and paste it into your form s code framework e Modify that code to replace the names with the ones you used in step 2 If you used my names d11 d12 d13 d14 d16 d18 and d10 then it will work as is Now save the properties save the form and publish As you click the checkboxes on and off the amount owing will
162. ve the form itself 4 6 1 Adjust Form Width How do adjust the form width in QuickMode I changed the setting in More Options but it didn t work In the form s properties gt Advanced tab gt More Options the form width field there only works for forms that are being displayed within an iFrame For a form being displayed normally the change needs to be made to the CSS file of the form theme that you are using For example if you have assigned the Aqua theme to your form you would have to make changes to media breezingforms themes aqua theme css Around line 27 you should see something like ofQuickMode width 100 here you can change the width of the form joerClolLiness Oox margin Opx 4 7 Form Elements 4 7 1 Checkbox How do I set up a Checkbox element To create a checkbox element use the following settings in the element s properties Type Checkbox Label Check here to whatever Use whatever wording you want Name checkbox1 or whatever name you want to assign to it Value Enter whatever value here that you want to appear in the database and or email address Some examples CHECKED UNCHECKED AGREED TO TERMS YES NO etc This field MUST have a value entered in order to return a result Checked If you want the box to be checked by default put a checkmark in the box Readonly Check this box if you want the field to be read only 54 Users Guide Cr
163. vel 5 1 Using the Integrator Here are some instructions on how to use the BreezingForms integrator The integrator since 1 5 9 build 700 is a nice way to store the data of your forms into any database table of your joomla installation mostly tables beginning with jos_ The concept behind it is quite simple If you just want to insert new data you choose the form the database table where you want to store the data and the fields to copy for example for newsletter subscriptions If you need to update existing entries you will need the information above plus some sort of criteria that indicates where to save what and when For example community builder personal info updates But let s start with a simple insert 1 Inthe Integrator screen click New in the upper right 2 Choose a name select the SampleContactForm and as target table jos_users and as type leave insert 3 Hit save in the upper right 4 Now a second table appears Data Integration 5 As_incoming_ element choose cf_name Text and as _outgoing_ element choose name 6 varchar 7 Click add 8 Then as next choose cf email Text and as _outgoing_ element choose email varchar 9 Click add 10 In each of these data integrations you see a link Code click on the code for the item cf name 11 In the appearing box enter this value strtoupper value 12 Hit save below the codebox What you have just do
164. whatever you want e g Send It or Enter Me Now To change the button s label just type the alternate text you wish to use in this field e Paging Include If your form consists of multiple pages you can choose to add a Next and or Back label as applicable to each page To do so choose Yes here If your form is only one page long you can disregard the settings the labels will only appear on a multi page form e Include Cancel Button If you want to include a Cancel button at the bottom of your form please choose Yes here If you would prefer to include a Cancel button that uses a custom graphic please click here for instructions on how to do so e Cancel Button Label If you are using the default Cancel button for your form rather than one using a custom graphic you can choose to label it whatever you want e g Cancel or Clear Form To change the button s label just type the alternate text you wish to use in this field e Save Properties 42 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Once you have filled in the necessary fields on the Properties tab click the Save Properties button located at both the top and bottom of the screen e Save Form Important The Save Properties button only saves the parameters of the form tab that you are on IT DOES NOT SAVE THE FORM ITSELF To save the form click on the Save icon in the upper right hand corner of the page 4 5 1 Advanced Form Prop
165. y other custom resources copy them from your server to your hard drive using your FTP client 3 Using an FTP client copy the contents of the folder component files administrator to you Joomla s administrator directory 4 Using an FTP client copy the contents of the folder component files components to your Joomla s components directory 5 Using an FTP client copy the contents of the folder component files language to your Joomla s language directory 6 Using an FTP client copy back to the server all of your custom QuickMode themes PDF templates Email templates or any other custom resources that you saved in Step 2 above 7 Re install the plugin and module if you are using them 8 In some cases you will need to re assign the validations and actions in your forms So check your form validations right after the upgrade to make sure they re okay That s it you re all done 29 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 30 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms 4 Using Breezingforms 4 1 Managing Records Here on the manage forms page is where you come to see all of the forms submitted to the database From here you can view export and even check payment and download times of a form fH breezingforms 2 BRAK A A POF csv XML Delete All forms Viewed Exported Archived Manage Records Manage Forms Manage Scripts Manage Pieces Integrator Janage Backend Menus Configuration All forms i rite Status
166. yName ff InitLib ff setValue page SpageURL page is the name of the hidd en field Then click on the SAVE icon in the lower right hand corner of the screen to save the piece that you just added When back on the form properties page click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself Calendar How to Insert Today s Date How do insert today s date in the calendar field Place this code in the calendar element s VALUE field Code lt php return date m d Y gt If you don t want it to be editable check the READ ONLY checkbox on the Advanced tab You could also use this code in a hidden field 109 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Thanks to Erich Haubrich for the contribution 6 47 Remove Back Button from Multi Page Forms I don t want my users to be able to go back to a previous page in the form Is there a way to remove the BACK button Yes you can do that First in your form properties change the settings below as noted Include Submit Button NO Paging Include NO If your last page is a thank you page you can still check that box here but leave Paging Include set to NO Then SAVE PROPERTIES to save the element Now go to page 1 of your form Create a new element as noted below Type Submit button Label Next Page Name nextPagei or whatever you want to call it Value Next Page Then go to the e
167. you need to delete the original elements that you created They should be the ones at the top of the page Your copied elements will show up below them Now open up each of the summarize elements and make sure they are correctly mapped to your original elements Click on SAVE PROPERTIES for any summarize element that you have to change and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself Section Short Cut If your summarize elements are contained within a section this becomes much easier You can then highlight the SECTION name in the left hand directory tree right click on it and click on COPY Next highlight the Page line in the directory tree that contains your summarize elements right click on it and then click on PASTE Now open up each of the summarize elements and make sure they are correctly mapped to your original elements Click on SAVE PROPERTIES for any summarize element that you have to change and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen to save the form itself 4 8 10 Stop User From Entering Spaces in Field I have the Value Not Empty rule in effect but some users are entering spaces in the field instead of typing a real response and it is getting past the rule Is there a way to force them to type something other than the spaces Go to Components gt BreezingForms gt Manage Scripts and then click on the value_notempty script
168. you want to call it this should be a single word with no spaces or other special characters Title Hidden Menu or Invisible Menu or whatever you want to call it Description Enter a descriptive phrase Module Title Leave blank When you are returned to the Menu Manager screen make note of the ID that is assigned to your hidden menu The ID should be the farthest column on the right Now when you hover over the MENUS tab at the top of the Joomla screen you should see your hidden menu listed there Click on it and then click on the NEW icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen In the dialogue box that opens select Menu Type Articles gt Article Layout In the parameters on the right hand side select the article that you want placed in the hidden menu 113 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms Make sure that the Display In field shows your hidden menu Fill in the other fields as you normally would and then click on the SAVE icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen When you are returned to the Menu Item Manager screen make note of the ItemID that is assigned to your new menu item To create a link to the article use the following format Keps ourdomain com index php option com content view article amp id xx Itemid yy Replace xx with the ID number of the article you want to link and replace yy with the ID number assigned to your hidden menu Now test the URL to make
169. ype echo lt script gt alert addslashes user gt getError history go 1 lt script gt return else Set some initial user values Suser gt set id 0 Suser gt set usertype Suser gt set gid Sauthorize gt get group id SnewUsertype 82 Users Guide Crosstec Breezing Forms TAROT Sdate amp JFactory getDate Suser gt set registerDate Sdate gt toMySQL If user activation is turned on we need to set the activation information Suseractivation SusersConfig gt get useractivation if Suseractivation 1 jimport joomla user helper Suser gt set activation JUtility getHash JUserHelper genRandomPassword Suser gt set block 1 If there was an error with registration set the message and display form if Suser gt save echo lt script gt alert addslashes JText Suser gt getError history go 1 lt script gt return else Sdb amp JFactory getDBO Sname Suser gt get name Semail Suser gt get email Susername Suser gt get username JFactory getDBO gt setQuery Update facileforms records Set user id Suser gt get id username JFactory getDBO gt Quote Susername user full_name JFactory getDBO gt Quote name Where id

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