Rename fields sent to a form on the same site

Hi jockoe, can you explain further what is it that you are trying to achieve by looping back to your website?

Regards

I am creating a form where families can register their children for a religious education program. Since it is unknown how many children each family will need to register, I am making a form to register a single child. I want it to loop back to itself in case the family needs to register a second child, third child, etc.

The Silent Remote Sending part is needed because there will be some family information I will want to be pre-filled on the form if registering multiple children.

Hi jockoe, okay I now understand what you are trying to achieve. Thank you for sharing with me.

Have you thought of adding an option box to select one, two, three and so on the number of children to add to the form?

In regards to the silent field, have you tried adding a hidden field?

Kind regards

In regards to the option boxes… I think this would probably work best for this, but did not realize I could do something like that. Can this be setup with FSCF or do I need to know JavaScript?

A hidden field would not suit my needs. It is information that is entered into a text box when a first child is registered, and then I want to carry that information over for each additional child.

Tracy

Hi Tracy have a read through the following URL, it will help you further with adding extra fields.

I understand how to add the radio buttons. The part that I don’t understand is how I would get additional child form(s) to display depending on the number of the radio button that is chosen.

Hi Tracy what if you create the single child form and add an option in the form for the families to state that it is an additional child from the same family that has already submitted a form earlier.

I am able to send a field to the same form, using this looping process, when I send the field as a query string on the redirect URL. When I move the same settings into ‘Silent Remote Sending’ it no longer works.

Would the settings be different for these? I’ve tried both ‘METHOD: POST ang GET’.

Hi I am sorry but I am unable to help you further with your question because I don’t have a solution for you. @mike Challis would be the best person to help you further with your question.

Kind regards

Thank you. I did have this setup awhile ago. Maybe in version 3.x. It looks like I may have to send the information as a query string instead of via Silent Remote Sending.

I appreciate you taking the time for this.

Tracy

I’m not sure about this, but it looks like Silent Remote Sending is for sending the information to another site, but not actually going there.
I am trying to do something similar (only for pets, not children), and it looks like a query string is the only way to go without doing any programming.

Hi @mrosen and @jockoe , this is what @mike Challis says in his website

Multi-page forms limitation:
If you are trying to make a multi-page form out of this feature, the fields with options do not pass properly to form 2 because it expects option number as query input. The problem is: Form 1 sends out options as value strings, but form 2 only accepts input from query options as key numbers, not value strings.
This is a known limitation that remains to be resolved in possible future updates.

This only applies if your scenario is similar to the above mentioned.

@mbrsolution

Thank you for that information. I’ve spent hours on his website combing through information, but do not remember reading that. As of now, the only field I’m trying to get working with Silent Remote Sending, is a text field.

Hi @jockoe I am not sure if you have read the following URL. That is where I found the comment I added to my previous reply above.

I’ve read that article and others on the sending of data. To get the Silent Remote Sending to work, I have tried every combination imaginable. I’ve tried every setup with bost POST and GET methods… renamed my “envelopenumber” field with and without the form numbers, and omitted it completely… The URL with and without the trailing “/”… Used “fields to ignore”, and also left it blank…

I cannot think of any other way to try to make it work, so I am admitting defeat and using “Posted data can be sent as a query string on the redirect URL”.

Thanks.