Form Calculation Variables

  • Resolved stumur

    (@stumur)


    1 year, 2 months ago

    Sorry to bother you guys. I have a small live coverband website that I’m struggling to do the calculations of a Forminator form I’ve created, where it needs to display the correct search results page in users’ search results, when they make certain select combinations of the 3 different drop-down boxes of the form. In short, the form has has 3 drop-down select boxes:

    {I Need A:} 1. top 40 band, 2. solo or duo, 3. string quartet, 4. party dj

    {For My:} 5. Wedding Event, 6. Corporate Event, 7. Private Party

    {At My Location:} 8. London, 9. Paris, 10. New York, 11. Los Angeles

    I then have a Calculation element added, to try to make the calculation of the varied drop-down combinations work, to display the correct search result page – e.g. a combination of 4. party dj + 5. wedding event + 8. London = 17 total, which, when submitted, should then display the correct page with a listing of about 20 party DJ’s available for hire, for weddings – in London.

    But so far, I can only get the pages linked to the {I Need A:} drop-down to display search result pages from numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. – {For My} and {At My Location} drop-downs have no effect.

    My calc formula looks like this: {select-4}+{select-1}+{select-3}, but this looks like an incomplete formula to me. I don’t see equals signs or anything anywhere to complete the formula, to generate the resultant search pages. Am I doing this wrong?

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  • Plugin Support Amin – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support2)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hello @stumur

    Hope you are doing well today.

    The calculations field does not have an equal sign because it sums the value automatically. Your formula appears to be correct, but have you added the conditions to your desired results?

    If you want to redirect users to a new page based on their calculation results, follow these steps:

    1. Go to the “Behavior” tab.
    2. Add a new behavior.
    3. Select the “Redirect” option.
    4. Enter the target page URL.
    5. Add the necessary conditions. For example, if the sum is greater than 10, it should redirect to Page 1.

    You will need to create multiple redirect behaviors and specify the required conditions for each one.
    https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#behavior-forms

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    If you just want to show some message with a link you can use the message type havevior and just add the required conditions.

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    Kind Regards
    Amin

    Thread Starter stumur

    (@stumur)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Amin, you’re my hero.. working GREAT now, thank you SO much! One last question:
    I have a few hidden data capture points in the form, like User’s Email Address, User’s Display Name, User’s IP Address. They’re hidden and are supposed to populate automatically, but of course they never do, except the ip address, which is pretty useless. Is there a way to make the name and email fields reliably capture? Or to somehow capture the user phone number too (other than adding this as a data entry box)?

    Plugin Support Amin – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support2)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hello @stumur

    When using a hidden field, the data should be captured from a source other than user input. Specifically, you can capture the user’s email address based on the email associated with the logged-in user when the form is submitted, this is especially useful for capturing the email of logged-in users and the same rule applies to name.

    Alternatively, you can use the pre-fill feature to populate the name and email address. To do this, you need to send the data as URL query parameters. Please refer to this document for more information on how to implement this: https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#pre-populate-form-field-values.

    Kind Regards
    Amin

    Thread Starter stumur

    (@stumur)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Thank you for this, Amin, particularly for the pre-fill suggestion, though I’m slightly confused – does pre-fill help in my case, considering the way that my form works that I outlined above? Currently, my form just generates the correct redirection page that their combination of dropdown boxes sends them to, – their event location and type of act they want sends them to a specific results page to suit. I know if they were somehow ‘logged in’ somewhere, then email or phone might be harvestable, but is it even possible to capture data (email address or a phone number) if my form is just a redirect for search results? Wouldn’t they need to be ‘logged in’ or something for my form to be able to grab their info?

    Plugin Support Nebu John – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport14)

    1 year, 1 month ago

    Hi @stumur,

    The hidden fields fetch the email ID and other user-related data from WordPress usermeta of the logged-in users only. Please find more information about hidden field default values in our documentation here: https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#default-value

    The option to pre-populate any fields using query parameters will only work if the necessary data can be passed through the URL where the form is located. To assist you better, could you please share more details about where the email ID and mobile number are coming from? This information will help us understand the context and guide you accordingly.

    Best Regards,
    Nebu John

    Thread Starter stumur

    (@stumur)

    1 year, 1 month ago

    Thank you!

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