Author Topic: custom data to a form (Read 965 times)

mikenet · February 25, 2010, 02:27:30 am

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please. $:-\$

I am new to CIVICRM and am trying to put together a form for organizations to fill in online - register, and am using the profiles. Some of the entries that I have are multiple choice questions. When I activate the multiple choice from custom data groups the custom data lines disappear from the available options for organizations.

What do I do? How do I incorporate multiple choice question into a form??

Thanx a lot

mike

Kiran Jagtap · February 25, 2010, 03:54:01 am

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When I activate the multiple choice from custom data groups

do u mean you set "Does this Custom Data Group allow multiple records? " to true for your custom data group ?

If yes, this feature allow you to set multiple values for single custom field but limited to 'Tab' display custom data and you can not enable these custom data fields in profile.

kiran

lcdweb · February 25, 2010, 04:15:52 am

and understand that "multiple records" are very different from "multiple choices"

multiple records = more than one distinct record (a complete set of fields from the group) can be created for the contact

multiple choices = a single field that allows more than one choice as part of the answer, e.g. "what are your favorite colors: answer = blue, green, grey (chosen from a multi-select box or list of checkboxes)"

See:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/DataBasic
http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/CapturingExposing

mikenet · February 25, 2010, 05:33:15 am

thanx guys a lot for the response my question I guess is following (sorry that I was not clear from the beginning):

Is there any way to create a multiple choice data field (you choose 3 or 5 answers to the same question from available 10) that can be incorporated to a form that will be accessible and "fillable" from the front end of joomla?

thanx again

mike

lcdweb · February 25, 2010, 06:28:38 am

create a custom data group (which will be a set of fields)
create a field with alphanumeric type. in the select box next to that type, decide if you want a multiselect field or you want the options as checkboxes
complete the rest of the form as necessary

you really should look at the two links as you will want a more complete overview of custom data

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