[Typo3-dev] Forms...

[Lars Houmark]

Hi there,

I am not totally sure where to post this, but I am running version 3.6.0-RC2
and have been doing some testing on the forms wizard.

I am pretty new to TYPO3, so there might already be solutions I just did not
find. If that is the case, sorry about that.

Things I am noticing, some of them with ideas of a solution/improvement.

1. When the form get's mailed the field name in the email is actually the
name of the field in the forms manager. Couldn't this be the label name, to
help with languages. I see no reason why this should be the field name, as
that is more like the technical part of the form. Also the JavaScript
validation is made with printing out the label instead of the field name.

2. If the name and email is changed to something else, the sender is
becoming the server name. Wouldn't it be smart to put a selector box, to
make people choose that "this is the email field" and "this is the
name/sender field". Even better, the fields could be scanned for email
addresses, and the first one could be the sender. This is one is not
bulletproof, as people could be typing in an email address that is not their
own in some cases. The manual way seems pretty fine for me.

3. Language for the frontend? I've set the local language, gotten the local
language from TER, but still the JavaScript error message appears in
English. Am I doing something wrong? If there is no language for this,
wouldn't it be smart to put a field in the wizard, with "the error message
first line" - just like subject in the mail. That way people can control the
error message on every single form.

4. The forms wizard is very nice, but I have had problems with the hitting
ENTER in different fields. This tends to make a field being deleted!!!!
Also, after making some fields and trying to leave the page there should be
somekind of warning that the form is not saved (if it isn't) as I believe
many people tend to forget the saving point in the wizards.

This things is meant to be ideas and suggestions. I am not yet able to do
programming myself at this point of time, as my knowledge of TYPO3 is far to
simple. I do want to get there, hopefully soon, so please do not bite my
head of, for not being able to "do something about it myself". When I get to
the point, where I can do programming for TYPO3, I think I will make a very
user friendly extended validation on forms, so that it is possible to say
hat this field must be 8 chars - only numbers. Or validate as email, or
birthday etc. etc. I made that kind of stuff before, so I have many good
ways of doing complete validation, with an user-friendly backend.

Thank you for listening.....

Regards,

Lars Houmark