dreamwhisper
Member
I have 4 HTML fields set to display based on whether or not checkboxes are checked on a previous page of a multipage form (Version 1.5beta). The conditional logic works perfectly to display them in the form.
I'd like these fields, which contain only links, to display on the confirmation page. I've used the insert fields dropdown to insert them. However, they don't display. Other inserted fields are working correctly.
The HTML blocks aren't intended to be displayed in the notifications like the other fields as they're not associated with a value. They're not actual form inputs. If they're still showing up as available fields in the notification screens, we'll most likely have to exclude them to prevent confusion.
There's more potential for the fields to break the notification email with bad markup. They were never intended to be included in the notifications.
What you could do is use paragraph text fields with default values for the recommendations. Those would show up in the notification email.
dreamwhisper
Member
Yes, I suppose bad markup would break notification emails or any page it was populated on such as the confirmation page, or even the form page they are on to start with. (though I would say that's user responsibility not yours LOL).
Using paragraph text fields works for textual recommendations, but doesn't for HTML markup. (HTML doesn't save in the form, but text does) It would make for a mess in form too.
I'd experiment with hidden fields and jquery, but as hidden fields have no default conditional capability I'd need to deal with that too.
Edit: HTML is saving, but in both the HTML block and the paragraph block, it doesn't save unless I add a space after the entered HTML.
Conditional notifications are really not something we support right now. Texareas will have HTML stripped from them and HTML blocks are not intended to be used as variable replacements.
Your only solution here is to use a hook and manually create the emails using PHP. If this seems like a viable solution, I can give you a code snippet to get you started.
dreamwhisper
Member
Thanks for bearing with me.
I'm not sure why you say conditional notifications are really not supported, unless you mean something like: Only send notification if a condition is present. This isn't what I'm after. Natively, GF is supporting what I want for the conditional when using the paragraph text fields. However, I need to prevent stripping the HTML from the field so the link remains intact. So, if you have a snippet that will point me in the right direction for that, I'd be happy.
(I'm very happy with Gravity Forms. It's an excellent plugin. )
The problem is that the textarea field does not allow HTML, so the HTML is stripped from it when saving the data. By the time we send the notification, the HTML is gone and we can't get it back.
Like I said, the one way to do this right now is via a hook. It is not as user friendly as the approach you are trying to do, but it will work.
I can help you with a code snippet if you are interested.
Give the following a try. Paste it in your theme's function.php and remember to replace the IDs in the code with your actual IDs.
One limitation that I just realized is that you won't be able to add any image to the email message. If this is something you need, we might be out of luck on this one.
