alisamii
Member
I need some help regarding developing sub-categories (for lack of a better way to call them) in drop-down menus. A site I am working on for a UN based organisation needs a registration form for a conference they will be holding in February 2014. The form needs a drop-down where the end-user/registrant selects their organisation from a list of about 100 organisations.
Basically, there are 4 types of organisations, and based on the organisation type, different options are enabled/disabled in the remainder of the form.
The basic structure is:
Non-Partner Organisations (2 options)
Partner Organisations (85 options)
Steering Committee Member Organisations (12 options)
Special Invitees (1 option)
I was developing the form originally with Seblod, but I found the interface lacking, and the feature-set limiting, especially in terms of developing an end-user administrative interface that would make the management of the form submissions simple for the client. It is too "technical".
However, with Seblod, I was able to use "optgroup=partners", for example, to group the 85 Partner organisations together. The resulting drop-down menu then grouped each item under the optgroup and thus allowed me to quickly assign visibility and conditional rules to be applied to all members of that optgroup.
For example, Partners and Steering Committee Members can upload a file, Non-Partners and Special Invitees cannot. Steering Committee Members can register to attend all 4 sessions, partners can attend 3 of the 4 sessions, special invitees 2 of the 4 sessions, etc.
See this screenshot: http://d.pr/i/FK6l
I have not been able to find a way to implement this in Fabrik, and it is a deal-breaker if this is not possible.
On another note, I am having a more fundamental problem with templates. I spent all weekend and today trying to get custom templates to work on Fabrik. Laying them out isn't a problem, but the submit button doesn't work, I've even tried it with example ones from the forum and none of them work either.
FYI, my environment is:
Joomla 3.2
Gantry Framework Default Template (4.1.18)
Latest version of Fabrik (waiting for the 3.2 compatible version).
Can you assist?
Thanks,
Ali
Basically, there are 4 types of organisations, and based on the organisation type, different options are enabled/disabled in the remainder of the form.
The basic structure is:
Non-Partner Organisations (2 options)
Partner Organisations (85 options)
Steering Committee Member Organisations (12 options)
Special Invitees (1 option)
I was developing the form originally with Seblod, but I found the interface lacking, and the feature-set limiting, especially in terms of developing an end-user administrative interface that would make the management of the form submissions simple for the client. It is too "technical".
However, with Seblod, I was able to use "optgroup=partners", for example, to group the 85 Partner organisations together. The resulting drop-down menu then grouped each item under the optgroup and thus allowed me to quickly assign visibility and conditional rules to be applied to all members of that optgroup.
For example, Partners and Steering Committee Members can upload a file, Non-Partners and Special Invitees cannot. Steering Committee Members can register to attend all 4 sessions, partners can attend 3 of the 4 sessions, special invitees 2 of the 4 sessions, etc.
See this screenshot: http://d.pr/i/FK6l
I have not been able to find a way to implement this in Fabrik, and it is a deal-breaker if this is not possible.
On another note, I am having a more fundamental problem with templates. I spent all weekend and today trying to get custom templates to work on Fabrik. Laying them out isn't a problem, but the submit button doesn't work, I've even tried it with example ones from the forum and none of them work either.
FYI, my environment is:
Joomla 3.2
Gantry Framework Default Template (4.1.18)
Latest version of Fabrik (waiting for the 3.2 compatible version).
Can you assist?
Thanks,
Ali