I have some issues about Contour when I created form with 5 steps.
When submitting the form, if you click back on your browser you can
navigate back through the pages of the application to review what you’ve done
however, if you then click the “Next” or “Prev” button on the form itself you
get an error page which seems to contain a massive amount of information. I’m
not sure what the best way to handle this is as it’s not really something that
will happen a lot. I typically find with web forms that once you’ve submitted the
form you can’t go back (probably for this very reason). Can we do the same here
and prevent users from reviewing once the application form has been submitted?
This might relate to above. I’m wondering how Contour works together
with the different web browsers. It seems that once one form has
been submitted and you go to begin another (which could happen in some cases)
the new form starts on the correct page but often will jump to a page
within the last form (containing the same data) . The results vary, it doesn’t happen all the time
but I’d say it does more often than not. The page it chooses to skip to also
seems to be a bit random. Perhaps we just need to do some housekeeping to
ensure that when a form is submitted the data in the form is
cleared from the form and cannot interfere with future form submissions.
If there is another/better way to do it i would i'd love to hear.
thanks in advacne.
Could you post the error that you are getting please? Without that, it'll be hard for us to diagnose the problem!
There's no richtext editor field type for Contour out of the box, but if you're OK with programming, you could easily write your own field type that has an RCE in it. If you go here: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/umbraco-contour-shared-source you can download the source code for all of the built in Contour field types. The developer docs which you can also download from that page have some more useful information on writing your own Contour field types.
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner, I've been away. I'm not sure what's going on here, it looks like it's having trouble recreating the form when you click the next/previous buttons. I've tried a multi-step form on one of my sites running contour and I don't get this error. It could be that you've hit a bug maybe? Contour has a support page, here: http://umbraco.com/help-and-support/customer-area/contour-support-and-download/contour-helpdesk.aspx it might be worth submitting a ticket there, as one of the guys who works on Contour will get back to you and will be better able to work out what's going on!
Any resolution on this as I have a client with the same issue. Using the browser button to go back a step then submitting the form will result in an exception similar to the following:
Unable to find control id '6311822f_cb88_487f_b569_ce9829f57913' referenced by the 'ControlToValidate' property of 'mandatory'.
Hi Martin, In all honesty - I didn't/couldn't work around it and because it's a closed source project I'm also unable to do anything about trying to fix it. There is a bug registered on the tracker if you want to vote it up http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/CON-96 and gather more support for the issue to be fixed but by the looks of it there is no priority from the HQ on this one.
So on multistepforms use a confirmpopup when people navigate through the back and forward buttons to suggest they use the form buttons, but its not really a very proper solution.
Contour form steps
Hello,
I have some issues about Contour when I created form with 5 steps.
If there is another/better way to do it i would i'd love to hear. thanks in advacne.
Another thing is, are there any way to integrate RCE or simple editor with Contour?
Hiya,
Could you post the error that you are getting please? Without that, it'll be hard for us to diagnose the problem!
There's no richtext editor field type for Contour out of the box, but if you're OK with programming, you could easily write your own field type that has an RCE in it. If you go here: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/umbraco-contour-shared-source you can download the source code for all of the built in Contour field types. The developer docs which you can also download from that page have some more useful information on writing your own Contour field types.
Hope that helps!
:)
Hi Tim,
Thanks for replying back, here is a screenshot that contains error message. Any work around or better way to do it?
Thanks in advance
Hi, I've just come across a similar issue.. However a different error is being thrown for me. To reproduce this error you can follow these steps:
Any feedbacks?
Any idea?
Hi Kittisart,
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner, I've been away. I'm not sure what's going on here, it looks like it's having trouble recreating the form when you click the next/previous buttons. I've tried a multi-step form on one of my sites running contour and I don't get this error. It could be that you've hit a bug maybe? Contour has a support page, here: http://umbraco.com/help-and-support/customer-area/contour-support-and-download/contour-helpdesk.aspx it might be worth submitting a ticket there, as one of the guys who works on Contour will get back to you and will be better able to work out what's going on!
Hope that helps!
:)
hi
I have followed the steps, but I failed again::
Any resolution on this as I have a client with the same issue. Using the browser button to go back a step then submitting the form will result in an exception similar to the following:
Unable to find control id '6311822f_cb88_487f_b569_ce9829f57913' referenced by the 'ControlToValidate' property of 'mandatory'.
Has any solution been found about this issue?
I'm having an identical issue with the Failed to Load Viewstate error on multistep forms.
But also I'm having the unable to find control id error when refreshing a form which also has a custom control on it.
Strange behavior
So no solutions? Can someone post it as a bug then?
Simon, how did you work around that issue?
Martin
Hi Martin, In all honesty - I didn't/couldn't work around it and because it's a closed source project I'm also unable to do anything about trying to fix it. There is a bug registered on the tracker if you want to vote it up http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/CON-96 and gather more support for the issue to be fixed but by the looks of it there is no priority from the HQ on this one.
Simon
Hi Simon,
I voted for it. Let's hope they fix it anyway. I'm daily getting Error notifications from Elmah from one of my clientwebsites.
I'm thinking about using answer 2 from this forumthread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3359941/how-to-disable-back-button-navigation-on-certain-pages
So on multistepforms use a confirmpopup when people navigate through the back and forward buttons to suggest they use the form buttons, but its not really a very proper solution.
Martin
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