[TYPO3-dev] 4.2 and the form wizard

[Charles Coleman]

I'm very excited to hear about the planned form enhancements.  I have been 
creating forms using the methods similar to what is described in the 
sitepoint article and agree that this is a great way to do it for the sake 
of accessibility.

"Patrick Broens" <patrick at patrickbroens.nl> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1.1187785663.1534.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hi Daniel,
>
> The new Form Wizard will be drag & drop based, so if you like to have an 
> input field, you simply drag it into the form in the wizard. You can 
> change the order of all the form items easily by dragging them to the 
> right spot in the form wizard. When clicking on an item, the properties 
> field will adapt where you can change the default configuration for an 
> element.
>
> A lot of new features will be introduced, like having fieldsets in 
> fieldsets, something that is currently not available in the Form Wizard. 
> Also a datepicker, more validation options and other stuff will be 
> implemented. You can even add your own stylesheet to it in the backend, so 
> the form will look exactly look how it will be displayed in the frontend, 
> similar to htmlarea where you can use your own stylesheet as well.
>
> But it's not only the Form Wizard which needs a facelift. Also the FORM 
> cObject, which you are partly referring to. Database storage has nothing 
> to do with the Form Wizard, but with the cObject. Validation will be done 
> server side in the future.
>
> I've looked at a lot of solutions to make the output as general and 
> stylable as possible. Two solutions I've found where worth trying it and 
> I've eventually decided to go for the solution published by Cameron Adams 
> on Sitepoint [1] to make an ordered list in which all items reside. There 
> is also a solution by The man in blue [2] to put each element within it's 
> corresponding label tag, which makes the code even more cleaner, but 
> that's not quite what the label is for and you always need the label tag.
>
> So the styling can be completely done using CSS. This is currently also 
> possible, but in a lesser way.
>
> Patrick
>
> [1] http://www.sitepoint.com/article/fancy-form-design-css/
> [2] http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/InForm/index.htm
>
> Daniel Pötzinger wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I just recognized that there is a new form wizard planned.
>>
>> Is it possible to have a look at the features of this wizard?
>> Since we are looking for a nice form wizards and started developing our 
>> own - it may be interesting what is offical planned.
>>
>> Concrete questions:
>> - is the form output more flexible (e.g. have the possibility to have a 
>> right/left/ wide column for the input fields)?
>> - is it planned to have a database log (like mailformplus)?
>>
>> Maybe there is the possibility to support on that issue.
>>
>> Thanks and greetings