Extending Umbraco Forms - Adding anyting other than datatypes to forms
Hi,
I am wanting to add a lot more power to an Umbraco form. I'm not sure if its possible or not.
What I want to do is..
Show data, information, html whatever on the form when the user is editing a node within the Umbraco Backend
There is a few reasons why I want to do this...
sometimes I just want to provide more information regarding filling out the form. For example I have a list of email templates which the user can add. Each email template has a list of replace strings which they can use. eg {{CompanyName}} will replace for the company name. It would be great if I could provide some simple html on the form with instructions. I get you can add labels and a description but I want to add more than this.
Another example is sometimes I want to report information relating to the node. like how many times the node has been viewed. Maybe even adding a graph to show the history of this.
To get around that I have been creating a custom section in umbraco but that's a lot of work and its repeating stuff that's already there. It would be great if for example I could add a macros as well as datatypes to forms. This way I could display anything I wanted on the forms as well as datatypes.
Does anyone know if anything like this is possible already? I thought that it might even be possible to add a new custom datatype which is basically just for display purposes like the label (displaying macros would be way better though!)???
MAYBE A BETTER WAY TO DESCRIBE WHAT I WANT
A RichTextDisplay datatype rather than a RichTextEditor. With the same feature (selecting a macro) - that would be awesome!!
Extending Umbraco Forms - Adding anyting other than datatypes to forms
Hi,
I am wanting to add a lot more power to an Umbraco form. I'm not sure if its possible or not.
What I want to do is..
Show data, information, html whatever on the form when the user is editing a node within the Umbraco Backend
There is a few reasons why I want to do this...
sometimes I just want to provide more information regarding filling out the form. For example I have a list of email templates which the user can add. Each email template has a list of replace strings which they can use. eg {{CompanyName}} will replace for the company name. It would be great if I could provide some simple html on the form with instructions. I get you can add labels and a description but I want to add more than this.
Another example is sometimes I want to report information relating to the node. like how many times the node has been viewed. Maybe even adding a graph to show the history of this.
To get around that I have been creating a custom section in umbraco but that's a lot of work and its repeating stuff that's already there. It would be great if for example I could add a macros as well as datatypes to forms. This way I could display anything I wanted on the forms as well as datatypes.
Does anyone know if anything like this is possible already? I thought that it might even be possible to add a new custom datatype which is basically just for display purposes like the label (displaying macros would be way better though!)???
MAYBE A BETTER WAY TO DESCRIBE WHAT I WANT
Kind Regards
David
It looks like a few other people are having similar problems...
https://our.umbraco.org/forum/umbraco-pro/contour/22661-Place-plain-text-in-contour-form
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24877259/has-anyone-created-a-label-divider-or-instructions-fieldtype-for-umbraco-conto
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