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Support Requests: Repeating sections and calculated Fields

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    • CommentAuthoracacialaw
    • CommentTimeJan 13th 2010
     
    Hi

    I have prepared a fictitious basic form to illustrate a repeatable section problem. The form reads in a customer's details and then has a repeatable section that asks what toy(s) they would like. In that section, the toy has to be specified and the color has to be specified for each toy. The form can be found here:
    http://www.tfaforms.com/136777

    The trouble is that the repeatable section only allows a single repeat. What if someone wants to specify 20 toys, each with their own colors? How do I get the whole section to repeat more than once?

    As an aside, I can get individual elements in forms to repeat indefinitely, but not sections that have multiple elements in them.

    Another issue is the form's calculation system that fails to work when there is more than 1 toy specified. What I have tried to achieve is getting a subtotal of cost per toy (each toy having its own cost) with a specified color (each color having its own cost). I have also tried to get a grant total cost at the bottom of the form for all toys and all color schemes. The form is updated in a haphazard fashion and often with incorrect results. For example, if I create two toys and then change the selections of toys or colors then the calculations are way off.

    TIA
    Mark
    • CommentAuthoracacialaw
    • CommentTimeJan 15th 2010 edited
     
    Hi again
    I have subsequently discovered that multiple sections can be created if the "add another toy" link in the first instance of the section copied is used multiple times. Is there any way that this link can be populated down to each toy entity or at least to the lowest toy so a user does not have to scroll all the way back up to the first toy in multiply copied section to add another toy?
    Regards
    Mark
    • CommentAuthordbuschho
    • CommentTimeJan 15th 2010
     
    Hello,

    My apologies for the delay, I didn't see this thread. Unfortunately, as you'll find is you search this forum for 'repeatable' and 'calculation' you'll find many people unhappy with the same issue. The limitations in IE7's javascript implementation make the merging / recalculations needed to make repeatable calculations work next to impossible for our setup. Until IE7 starts to die off and we can migrate our codebase to not need that backward compatibility, repeatable calculations aren't easily possible.

    Regarding the moving of the 'add another' link, I think we had another request like that, but I'm not finding it at the moment. Let me a take a look.

    FA Support.

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