Doesn’t work, clunky UI, breaks GDPR
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I do not understand how this has nothing but 5 star reviews.
Let’s start with the UI. Dynamic shortcode wizard? Contains a bunch of useless stuff, but if I want a form (the only reason I’m in the market for a premade solution), that’s not going to do anything for me.
Fine, browsed the docs, found a shortcode. What is this, 2011? If you’re going to advertise as developer friendly, make yourself developer friendly. msdyncrm_form($entity, $name, $options) is developer friendly, this?
[msdyncrm_twig]
{% form entity=”wat” name=”thisisclunky” mode=”create” %}{% endform %}
[/msdyncrm_twig]This is hateful towards everyone, esp. the editors of the site who want a pretty UI.
I can forget all that and abstract the fugly functionality behind my own code. Or I could, if the form worked, at all!
A very basic form with name, email, two numeric inputs and a select does not render properly. The select options lack a name, so the field is empty. Worry about that later, the styling of the form is horrible, so to get on that. And what do I see? Bootstrap grid classes. It’s 2022, I haven’t used bootstrap in 10 years, and I don’t want to use it now.
Oh and when I try to submit the form? Error: Could not find CreateResponse node in XML returned from Server
No errors in the server error log, even when log verbosity is changed to debug in the plugin settings.
I know what you’re going to say: make your own twig template. I don’t want to use twig either!! I’ve tried it, it sucks. Useless abstraction, and there’s no reasonable way to change just one part of it. I’d MUCH rather do the entire integration myself, at least M$ has a documentation that isn’t shite.
Oh, and it includes recaptcha on all pages, even if the plugin has nothing to do with a page. That’s a GDPR violation, this plugin is worse than trash, it can literally bankrupt you.
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I get it @trashpress, the free plugin did not work to your expectations of a complete turn-key solution and I’m sorry about that. I could go through your somewhat helpful write up and reply to individual bits but looks like you already have your mind made up. Having said that, I’d have preferred if you raised issues regarding form rendering and submission error on the forum – that would have been very helpful.
The only suggestion I can make is to look at these two things:
- Our premium addon that has integration with Gravity Forms so that you design your form separately from the integration. NOTE: we do offer a 1 month trial but Gravity Forms is not a free plugin so it may or may not work for you.
- Our new, web api based Dataverse Integration plugin that contains more wizard-style form creation UI
If you’d “MUCH rather do the entire integration” yourself then perhaps our free Dataverse Web Api Toolkit could be helpful.
And if you see the opportunity to improve documentation to make it less “shite”, it’s a public project on GitHub (https://github.com/AlexaCRM/alexacrm.github.io) and your pull request would be more than welcome.
When your “free” plugin is as terrible as this, do you really expect ANYONE to give you MONEY for the premium one?
You’re delusional, and your code is bad. You should feel awful. Before I nuked any and all traces of it, I checked, and you robbed me of 14 performance points on Lighthouse. Without your awful plugin, the site gets 100 points in all categories.
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