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  • David Armitage 510 posts 2082 karma points
    May 21, 2016 @ 12:18
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    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..

    1. Show data, information, html whatever on the form when the user is editing a node within the Umbraco Backend

    2. 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!!

    Kind Regards

    David

  • David Armitage 510 posts 2082 karma points
    May 21, 2016 @ 12:36
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