[Pro] Order of Completed Form

I have a very long form that I have made and it is email based. The script I am using is called ProcessForm. My results are a bit out of order.

I confess I did not create the form in perfect order. I made it using 3 tables. The top table always shows up at the bottom of the results page. I tried changing the name of the tables so the top one is a lower number. Did not work. I tried using item numbers that were very low for the input boxes. Any ideas on how results are ordered? Thanks!

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Any ideas on how results are ordered?

Not really without seeing the ProcessForm.php script.

However items are generally processed in source order on your page and you can influence that if you created the Form in FW itself.

For ease use a single table to hold all your form items and the natural construction will make sure that items at the top will come first in the Source order.

However if the Table(s) were created outwith FW then you may have problems but the same principle applies.

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The Action actually groups items by input type (so all text fields, then all text areas etc). We currently have an open suggestion to change this so the order reflects the order of appearance on the page.

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There is something fundamentally wrong with this form page. I visited it in a browser, and viewed source, and I could see a PHP instruction block at the top of the page. If this page is meant to be altered by PHP, then either your server must be set up to process HTML pages as if they were PHP (use the ForceType directive in an .htaccess file) or you need to rename the file from index.html to index.php. As it is, the PHP isn’t being executed, and the code itself is leaking out into the world. Normally, having PHP in an HTML file is a fine thing (at least, as long as it’s being executed by the server) because the only thing that remains after the server processes it is the output of your program, not the instructions of that program itself. But when a PHP program is shown by Apache as if it was a normal HTML file, all your underwear is hanging out in public.

Walter

On Feb 23, 2014, at 11:12 AM, Steven Houtzager wrote:

I have a very long form that I have made and it is email based. The script I am using is called ProcessForm. My results are a bit out of order.

I confess I did not create the form in perfect order. I made it using 3 tables. The top table always shows up at the bottom of the results page. I tried changing the name of the tables so the top one is a lower number. Did not work. I tried using item numbers that were very low for the input boxes. Any ideas on how results are ordered? Thanks!

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Joe, I don’t think this form is being processed by either the Softpress or the Tim Plumb form processing Action.

Steven, you do have some control over the order of the e-mailed form elements by how you construct your page. If you have three different tables on the page, and they are inserted inline within a single parent element (in-flow construction, sometimes referred to here as “box-model”) then the form elements will be sent to the server in an ordered hash (data construction) in the same order in which they appear in the output HTML code. But Freeway also allows you to draw three tables on the page – free-form, or CSS-positioned layout model – and if you do that, the three tables may appear to be one above another, while their position in the HTML source code is entirely different from that. You can affect this ordering by changing the stacking order of the page elements. If you click on the Site header above the left pane of Freeway’s window, so it changes to read “Page”, you will see a hierarchical list of all the page elements. Click on an element in the layout and the corresponding element in the list will highlight. (Vice-versa, too, which is really handy when you’re trying to figure out what item42 is.) If your three tables are in the wrong order, you can drag them in the left-hand list to the correct order without altering their position on the page at all.

Walter

On Feb 24, 2014, at 5:07 AM, Joe Billings wrote:

The Action actually groups items by input type (so all text fields, then all text areas etc). We currently have an open suggestion to change this so the order reflects the order of appearance on the page.

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