[Janet Dalton]

I am working with the Connections Form for the first time. Things are going well and get several people to test the form.

One issue that came up was when someone pressed ENTER early in the process and the form began the submission process. No option to go back and finish.

http://www.fenelonfalls.info/WP/businesses-and-organizations/input-business-form/

Can I add in a CUSTOM FIELD that is required to the end of the form ?

If so, please provide some coding advice on how to do this.

I anticipate that such a REQUIRED FIELD would also help to stop spammers and BOTS from submitting useless data.

Any help appreciated.

JD

[Janet Dalton]

been searching and searching … and hoping for an answer.

Found old posts that say you can’t do CUSTOM / NEW FIELDS.

So please tell me how I can make the BIO ( description ) field a REQUIRED FIELD and that should solve most of my problems. I will just add a note into the form that some content must be in the BIO (description) in order for the form to submit.

Hoping on going live with this soon. Appreciate any help offered.

JD

[Steven Zahm]

@ Janet

The only way to make the bio a required field is to make a small edit to the connections_form.php file.

Search for this line:

$out .= '<textarea rows="20" cols="40" name="bio" id="cn-form-bio"></textarea>';

Change it to this:

$out .= '<textarea class="required" rows="20" cols="40" name="bio" id="cn-form-bio"></textarea>';

You will than have to disable the rich text editor by setting the rte shortcode option to FALSE; like so:
[connections_form rte=FALSE]

That’s the easiest. If you really want the rich text editor; the change is not harder but does appear like it is because of where the change has to be made. Here’s how:

Search for this block of code:

wp_editor(	$entry->getBio(),
	'cn-form-bio',
	array
	(
		'media_buttons' => FALSE,
		'wpautop' => TRUE,
		'textarea_name' => 'bio',
		'tinymce' =>	array
						(
							'theme_advanced_buttons1' => 'bold, italic, underline, |, bullist, numlist, |, justifyleft, justifycenter, justifyright, |, link, unlink, |, pastetext, pasteword, removeformat, |, undo, redo',
							'theme_advanced_buttons2' => '',
							'inline_styles' => TRUE,
							'relative_urls' => FALSE,
							'remove_linebreaks' => FALSE,
							'plugins' => 'inlinepopups,spellchecker,tabfocus,paste'
						),
		'quicktags' =>	array
						(
							'buttons' => 'strong,em,ul,ol,li,close',
						)
	)
);

And change it to this:

wp_editor(	$entry->getBio(),
	'cn-form-bio',
	array
	(
		'media_buttons' => FALSE,
		'wpautop' => TRUE,
		'textarea_name' => 'bio',
		'editor_class' => 'required',
		'tinymce' =>	array
						(
							'theme_advanced_buttons1' => 'bold, italic, underline, |, bullist, numlist, |, justifyleft, justifycenter, justifyright, |, link, unlink, |, pastetext, pasteword, removeformat, |, undo, redo',
							'theme_advanced_buttons2' => '',
							'inline_styles' => TRUE,
							'relative_urls' => FALSE,
							'remove_linebreaks' => FALSE,
							'plugins' => 'inlinepopups,spellchecker,tabfocus,paste'
						),
		'quicktags' =>	array
						(
							'buttons' => 'strong,em,ul,ol,li,close',
						)
	)
);

That should do it. I hope that helps!

[Janet Dalton]

THANK YOU ! That would beautifully. I went with the second option and then added in some screen text.

Happy Novice !!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Janet

Great to hear that this worked for you. Again my apologies for the delay in my reply!

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