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store form in cookie issue

Thread began 6/24/2019 7:27 am by s.joiner74419001 | Last modified 6/26/2019 8:27 am by Ray Borduin | 595 views | 7 replies |

6/24/2019 7:27 am | #1 s.joiner74419001

store form in cookie issue

I am wanting to store a from in a cookie for the purpose of as it is quite a large form ( around 50 elements ) I would like the user to be able to click a 'Save Form' input button and they can return at a later date to complete.

I have discovered from the behaviours window there is all the necessary behaviours ( store / set entire form to cookie )

From older posts to forum I saw one answered by Jason saying you should select the 'Input [submit]' button and bind the 'store entire form in cookie' behaviour to it.

Then select the body tag and bind the 'Set entire form to cookie' with the 'onClick' behaviour.

My problem is I can't edit the body tag as it is in the template which is un-editable and I can't find the 'make tag editable' feature which may have been removed from DW CC 19.

What are my options here?

Thanks in advance!

6/24/2019 1:41 pm | #2 Ray BorduinWebAssist

You should be able to store the cookies onSubmit of the form or onClick of the button. What did you want to add with the body tag?

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6/25/2019 1:40 am | #3 s.joiner74419001

The reason I mentions the body tag is because its what Jason had advised in the forum post fead I mentioned.

I actually typed an error as he said to attach the 'Set entire form to cookie' with the 'onLoad' behaviour NOT onClick as I said previously.

I can't seem to get the cookie data to display when the user returns to the page

6/25/2019 9:01 am | #4 Ray BorduinWebAssist

Can I get a URL to see what you have done and FTP access? I can take a look to see what you are doing and what might be wrong.

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6/25/2019 1:32 pm | #5 s.joiner74419001

Details in PM. Ive bind the behaviour to the 'Save Form' input button at top of page.

6/25/2019 4:36 pm | #6 Ray BorduinWebAssist

There was a missing cookies.js reference on the page that caused it to not save the cookies correctly. It may not have added it properly because of the template issue you mentioned above. I've fixed your page by manually adding lines 427 and line 429 as well as got it to re-populate the form from the cookie with the code on line 1548. Please download the file for your reference.

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6/26/2019 2:18 am | #7 s.joiner74419001

Great.. Thanks Ray! this now works as I had hoped.

So If I was to replicate this function. What procedures would I take using the available options in the plugin.

6/26/2019 8:27 am | #8 Ray BorduinWebAssist

You can apply the save cookie in form behavior just like you had. Then just copy and paste the three lines I referenced onto the page as well. Since you don't have access to the <body> tag, you can't really do it without copy and paste.

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