This demonstration highlights the following:

• The new View and Edit links within email completion events.

• The Month-Day-Year drop down list option for the Date field type.

• The new Hidden Fields Control Panel for Admins.

• The Quick Stats option available to Admins.

We'll also discuss the ability to send emails to Security Roles (instead of individual emails) and the new AJAX controls for increased responsiveness with question events.

Let's begin with the user's ability to View Form Results and to Edit Form Entry.

New tokens have been added which can be used in your email event. 

If you choose $(ViewLink) or $(EditLink), the words 'Review Results' and 'Edit Form Results' will show on your email, respectively.  To imbed a link to your own text or image, use $(ViewLinkURL) or $(EditLinkURL).

 Now, lets discuss the new Month-Day-Year format for the Date field.

This offers the ability to define the years to be included in your drop down list.

Please note that the 'Ending Years' setting always counts from the current year.  Therefore, the above settings will give you a range of 2009 to 2014.  You may also offer past years by using a negative number in the Starting Years.  For example, if you want the earliest year to be 1988, you need to set it to -21.

Remember:  The starting year value is the number of years going back from today.  The ending year value is the number of years going forward.  A value of zero denotes current year.

The new Hidden Fields Control Panel

This great new feature for Admins will display any hidden fields at the bottom of the form.  This eliminates the need to go into 'Manage Questions' and individually searching for the hidden fields by name.  Please note that this applies to fields with the field type of Hidden (not fields that are hidden by role or are set to 'hide until forced visible by question events.'

 The new Quick Stats

Again, making life a little easier for the Admins, this feature offers quick info regarding the field.  Here, you can easily see the field type, the short field name and other specific settings like 'hide until forced visible by question event.' just like in the example above.   If it applies, it will also show if the field is required, etc.  For flexibility, you have the option to disable this feature under Module Configuration, General Settings.

Lastly, let's talk about AJAX and Question Events.

Question events in previous versions required a postback which causes a long delay in execution.  Now, you'll notice that the question events no longer needs a postback and executes much more quickly.  The User Guide provides instructions on how to set up Question Events.

Did you notice the progress image?  You can set up your own by going to Module Configuration, AJAX/jQuery Integration.  Choose Link Type: File.  If you click on Generate, you'll get to www.ajaxload.info where you can generate your own image.  Once created, you can choose to Upload New File in Dynamic Forms with your new AJAX progress image.  Otherwise, you can use the Alternate Modal Popup Message to add your own text as you can see in Demo 28.

Would you like to setup your form just as this demonstration is set up?  If so simply download this template and copy it to your DNN Portals Home Directory to use the IPORTABLE feature of the module (Select Import Content from the module menu and import the template). This download also includes SQL scripts utilized and the IPORTABLE XML file for the DNN Reports module. Download Demonstration Files. These files include IPORTABLE (Import Content / Export Content) scripts for Dynamic Forms, DNN Reports Module, and all SQL Scripts used with this demonstration.

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