I have set up a ‘Form Field Label’ action on a graphic item to work with a checkbox. Essentially, I’d like to use the graphic item to select/deselect the checkbox. However, I keep getting an error message that says
“The name for the form item “m33” is not set”.
I’ve tried a few different things like changing the name, completely deleting and creating a new graphic item and checkbox but to no avail. I get the same error with a radio button.
My site is not online, so I am working on it via the Preview and Preview in Browser mode. Is there a way of sharing it otherwise? Could I copy paste the html in here perhaps? Right now I have a simple page set up to test this action.
Check in the third tab of the Inspector when that form item is selected. Make sure there is a valid name in the Name field. (For most form processors, a valid form name begins with a letter a-z, and contains only letters and numerals and the underscore character – and no spaces ever.)
Walter
On Jul 22, 2013, at 4:04 PM, “Siddhartha Ghose” email@hidden wrote:
My site is not online, so I am working on it via the Preview and Preview in Browser mode. Is there a way of sharing it otherwise? Could I copy paste the html in here perhaps? Right now I have a simple page set up to test this action.
Thanks Walter. I can confirm that there is a valid name in the Name field.
I have just noticed that when I try this action on a test page with only a graphic item (with the Action) and a check box, then the error does not show up as such, but the action itself does not work. i.e. the check box does not get checked when I click on the graphic item. On my original webpage, which has a lot of other stuff on it, it generates the error message.
I think you misunderstand what the Form Item Label action does.
As I understand it it provides the Label descriptor for the associated field chosen in the action picker and it is not meant to be a substitute for the field itself.
As I understand it it provides the Label descriptor for the associated field chosen in the action picker and it is not meant to be a substitute for the field itself.
OK - I stand corrected on this.
It can be used to provide the Label descriptor and also can be used to essentially extend the functionality of a field, radio button etc to include the graphic to which the action is applied.
If you have a pair of radio buttons you can insert graphics next to them and extend the functionality of the radio to include the graphic.
David - thanks for your example. That is exactly how I was expecting the Form Field Item to work i.e. click on the graphic and the form item (checkbox or radio button) gets selected. But I just cannot get it t happen for me. Completely stumped how it worked in your example. I have simplified my test page to the bare minimum with only a graphic and a check box but no luck at all. I’ve also tried with a radio button.
I’ve written to Softpress - let’s see what they say.
David, thanks for your annotated example - very helpful to see what you have done. In my case, it is set up exactly as you have in your example but unfortunately the action is still not working.
I am beginning to think there might be a bug in my system or the software package itself. I will try and re install to see if that helps. Any other tips wold be much appreciated.
Hi David - I got a response from Softpress and now understand what was going wrong. In v6, only HTML text can be a Form Item Label or a graphic that is inline an HTML item. I had not set my page up in that way (I hadn’t read the updated document ‘What’s new in Freeway 6’…sorry). So, now I have managed to get the Action to work.
I do have another question that I will put up on this forum sometime. It has to do with an item having two Actions. I want to have the Form Item Label work with a Rollover but haven’t managed so far (now where have we heard that before…!).
Thanks for all your help - it is much appreciated.
David - again, thanks for following up. I have seen you example and my set up is very similar. The only difference from your approach is that I have created graphic items with text in FW rather than importing my own images (like your C.png and M.png). The rollover effect triggering a Target Show/Hide works just fine. But then when I add a Form Field Item to it, that second action doesn’t work.
Wow, this is certainly moving in the right direction! What I was trying to achieve is for the MouseOver image to remain when the image is clicked (and the checkbox/radio button gets selected). But as you said, this won’t work when combined with a form Field item. The Softpress folks confirmed that as well.
Replace the user not-so-friendly radio/checkbox selectors with graphic images.
If you can post online an example of what you want with the images that you want to use I could put together an example page for you when I get a minute.