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<title>MachForm Community Forums Topic: Automatic Scheduling</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 00:09:24 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>williamansley on "Automatic Scheduling"</title>
<link>https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/automatic-scheduling#post-25088</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 04:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>williamansley</dc:creator>
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<description>&#60;p&#62;With recent versions of Machform, you can customize the &#34;Inactive Form&#34; message. I just played with this a bit in v. 4.7 and found that while I couldn't delete the message entirely (you get a prompt requesting that you enter a message), or replace it with one or more blank spaces (the last successfully submitted non-empty message that didn't consist entirely of spaces reappears), you can use html and enter non-breaking spaces (&#60;code&#62;&#38;amp;nbsp;&#60;/code&#62;) or use inline CSS to hide text (&#60;code&#62;&#38;lt;span style=&#38;quot;visibility:hidden;&#38;quot;&#38;gt;No message&#38;lt;/span&#38;gt;&#60;/code&#62;).&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;One annoyance of customizing the &#34;Inactive Form&#34; message is that to do so you have to, temporarily at least &#60;strong&#62;manually&#60;/strong&#62; inactivate the form, using the &#34;Disable&#34; tab at the bottom right end of the form title &#34;bar&#34; for your form in the Form Manager. This is the only way to display the dialog box for customizing the &#34;Inactive Form&#34; message. When you &#34;Enable&#34; the form again, the message will still be there and will be displayed when the form is automatically disabled.
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<title>frankzobitz on "Automatic Scheduling"</title>
<link>https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/automatic-scheduling#post-25083</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2016 08:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<description>&#60;p&#62;Yes, activating the scheduling does affect if your form is visible on your website.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;I like your approach, however, when two of the forms are inactive, there will be a message displayed: This form is currently inactive. Therefore, you will need to do some internal programming to remove that message.  Personally, I think it would be easier to create your own PHP logic to choose which form to display to avoid messing with MachForm's internal code.
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<title>tduncandesign on "Automatic Scheduling"</title>
<link>https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/automatic-scheduling#post-25082</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>tduncandesign</dc:creator>
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<description>&#60;p&#62;I have registration forms with different early registration price tiers. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;I have duplicated my forms, and edited pricing based on each tier, and set the date range that pricing is valid in each form's Automatic Scheduling fields. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;How does implementation work? Can I just stack each form's div ID mf_placeholder in my layout, and include the JS files once, and each form will activate/deactivate on schedule, OR do I need to build my own PHP logic in the layout to evaluate dates and thus show or hide each form? &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;I get that the Automatic Scheduling makes a form active or inactive, but I'm not clear if that extends to rendering or not rendering the form in layout. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;Thanks for any insight!
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