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    Hello

    We are using as a portal for our Online Application Forms.
    Each Application Form has about 5-8 pages and takes users on average 2-4 hours to fill out.

    one thing we addes was a custom progress bar, so users can see how many pages are left. I think it would be a cool feature to automatically display the progress on a multi page form.

    Secondly, it would be nice if instead of users "saving" their form before they pause it if you had a mandatory first step
    fill out your first name, last name and email adress and it automatically saves the form for the user.

    hope that makes sense.
    other than that i love what you guys do, it works great for us

    Cheers

    Johannes
    • CommentAuthordbuschho
    • CommentTimeJan 9th 2012
     
    Hello Johannes,

    1) We've considered adding a progress indicator. In its simplest form, it's not a terrible challenge to add, but in making it available to all, the challenge is giving as much customization as our customers are used to. If you'd like to try a demo of it, try including this code on your form's custom code block:
    <link href="https://wforms.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/customization/wforms_custom_tab.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></link>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://wforms.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/customization/wforms_custom_tab.js"></script>

    The key points being:
    1. Validation is only run at the end ( to allow for skipping around the form ).
    2. A navigation / progress bar is included on the top of the page. The user's current page is highlighted in bold. The user can skip around the form by clicking on the page number. The title / hover / tooltip / hint when the user hover's their mouse over the page number is the page's title if it has one.
    3. When a user attempts to submit and the validation fails, the pages where validation failed are highlighted in the navigation bar for easy reference. The user is autonavigated to the first failing page's first failing field. Clicking on a failed page's nav link will autonav the user to the first failed field on that page.

    2) I'm not sure I understand this one, can you give a bit more detail?

    Remember, for any new features you'd like added, you can add them for voting at formassembly.uservoice.com.
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    thanks

    i'll go ahead and try the progress bar...

    this is what i mean by the 2nd question

    let's say you have a 7 page form
    some people may start filling out the form, but then give up and never save the form

    i would like to have the option that the first page starts with a mandatory field

    emailadress
    and
    password

    so in order to start filling out the form, you have to save it in the first step, but then go right into filling out the form

    i got the idea from here
    http://www.ywamharpenden.org/training/applynow/

    if that helps

    cheers

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