Smart Channel Forms

How To Use & Features

Follow the below steps to install the Smart Channel Forms add-on:

EE5_EE6:

Download and Extract the ZIP file of the module. (We recommend using the latest version.)

• Copy Smart_channel_forms > system > user > add-ons > smart_channel_forms folder to “Your Site > system > user > add-ons” Folder.
• Copy Smart_channel_forms > themes > user > smart_channel_forms folder to “Your Site > themes > user” Folder.
• Login to the backend panel with Super admin credentials.
• Go to “Add-Ons” and install the Smart Channel Forms module.
• Forms list
• Once you create a form , It will show under the Form list. Where you can edit or delete form settings.

Create a new form

To create a new form, Go to the backend Smart Channel Forms settings. Click on “Create new form” Button

Form Settings are described as below:

• Form Name: Set the name of the form
• Show URL Title: Make a visible URL title field. Default is “Yes”

  If the user wants to generate a dynamic title, then you can set it to “No”.

• Dynamic Title: Users can make title dynamic with before and afterword with the custom field combination. Pre-title word – you can set pre-title words. Custom field – you can choose the custom field of the form. Post-title word – you can set the post title words.
• Return URL: Users can set the redirect URL after form submission.
• Author Only: Only the author of the entry can edit the entry.
• Class of the form: Users can set the HTML class of the form tag.
• ID of the form: Users can set the HTML ID of the form tag.
• Datepicker: Set “Yes” if you want to use native ExpressionEngine date-picker. Default is “Yes”
• Logged out member ID: Users can set the default member if they have an open submission form.
• Secure Action: This option forces the form to use HTTPS as its action. Default is “No”.
• Secure Return: This option Forces the forms to return with HTTPS.
• Site: This option is useful when the site is MSM.

  Select the other site from the dropdown from MSM sites to add/edit for that site.

• Unique URL Title: When the user sets “Yes”, it will ensure the URL title of the entry will be unique so there is no risk of creating an entry with a duplicate URL title.
• EntryID Segment Number: Users can set the segment number while the entry is going to be edited.
• Use Live URL: This will disable the url_title from being created automatically based on the title.
• Form Enabled!: Admin can enable/disable the form.

Form render

Smart channel forms have a simple one template tag. Just pass the Form ID as a parameter

{exp:smart_channel_forms:entry_form}

Parameters

Following Parameters can be use Run tag:

form_id

This parameter will inform the tag to render the form as per the settings have been applied to the form at the control panel.

form_id=”1″

Example(full) :-

{exp:smart_channel_forms:entry_form form_id="1"}