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Hello
I'm using CMSMS 1.9.4.1 and Company Directory 1.8.1. and FormBuilder 0.7.

My client would like only some of the businesses in the company directory to have a unique contact form within the description area of the directory listing. Some of the businesses wont have a form at all and others would need a form to say, book a tentative appointment or make a product enquiry. So I unfortunately can't apply a generic form to ALL listings in the main template as the forms will differ depending on the type of business, - so ideally I would need to call up the form reference tag in the relevant businesses listing/description field.

I have tried for example adding {FormBuilder form='contact'} to one of the businesses in the directory, but this does not generate the form like on a normal page - but just displays that code. I tested the same tag on an ordinary page and it displays the form fine.

I assume because the content area in the company directory template differs to ordinary templates or pages? And we cannot use the normal CMSMS tags wrapped in {brackets} in the company directory description area?

I also tried wrapping the code in <literal> tags, but this didn't help.

Is it at all possible to achieve this? And if there is a way to do this (I'm a designer not a developer so hopefully something simple) would be glad to hear of any advice.

Many thanks

you need to use Smarty eval to do this

Right... thanks for the clue but could you explain a little more. I'm a designer not a programmer ... Is there a simple line of code I can use or is this something only a programmer will have to do?

I looked on the smarty website to work it out myself and have tried the following on a company directory description area:

- {eval var=$entry->FormBuilder form='contact'} and then I tried,

- {$entry->FormBuilder form='contact'}

But both of these things only display the code, not the actual form.

Thanks.

First you need to create the variable to be eval'd.
{capture assign='form'}{FormBuilder form='contact'}{/capture}

then eval it
{eval var=$form}

Thank you ...

I have tried putting both of these lines of code in both the Company Directory template and also tried in the actual Directory listing details section - both of these methods don't display the form but just the tags.

I know it might sound obvious to a programmer, but can you tell me where to put the code exactly, as I'm just guessing and what I'm trying isn't working. Do I still use the tag {FormBuilder form='contact'} - anywhere?

you will put both lines of code in your CompanyDirectory details section. I had to do something similar a year or so ago, except I was using the Uploads module, not FormBuilder.

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/viewtopi ... ic=35141.0

Your example a year ago sounds very similar to what I am trying to achieve.

I put the following on the bottom of my detail text for one company:

{capture assign='form'}{FormBuilder form='contact'}{/capture} {eval var=$form}

and it still only just prints that code instead of the form on the actual page when you visit that company on the website.

Thanks for your patience but I must be missing something?

hmm, that's odd. I just tested on my site, adding a FormBuilder tag to a CompanyDirectory details field, and it displayed correctly, even without eval.

can you pm me temporary admin credentials?

Thanks for getting back to me and helping with this.

I haven't installed it to the remote hosting server yet - just working on it locally as its a large-ish site that needs lots of upgrade work done.

Do you think perhaps it is not working because I have the website set up on my server on my laptop using wamp?

that's a possibility, though I'm not sure why it would matter. Do you have a live site that you could add a test install of CD and give it a quick try. 20 minutes should tell you if it will work in your production/hosted environment.

Yes, I have the old version online now with CMSMS and Company Directory - but not yet the form module. I've just downloaded it all to upgrade to the latest version of CMSMS and modules + new formbuilder.

I'll PM you a login, hopefully you can see what's going on without the formbuilder module installed? - thank you.