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1. williamansley
   Member

   I would like the ability to add my own custom text to each form to be displayed when the form is made inactive. Right now, for every form, the text says, "This form is currently inactive." I would like to be able to change this text on a form-by-form basis. It seems to me that the best way to add this to the Form Builder interface is to add a new field to the form properties section, similar to the "Success Message" that is currently there.

   I hope to see this feature added to a future update to version 3. Please let me know if this feature description isn't clear.

   Posted 14 years ago #

2. AMurray
   Pro Member

   I just want to make a comment on this, in case others want to change these messages (either in the same way as the OP describes, or generally changing the messages the user sees: edit the language.php file (located in macform/includes) and edit the following section:

   //form status
   	$mf_lang['form_inactive']		=	'This form is currently inactive.';
   	$mf_lang['form_limited']		=   'Sorry, but this form is no longer accepting any entries.';

   There are also other messages/errors the user may see in the course of filling in the forms, that can also be changed - the changes would be across all forms, not per-form using the above method, but perhaps a work-around can be put in place to customise the message for individual forms.

   Posted 14 years ago #

3. williamansley
   Member

   AMurray, I appreciate your response; it is very useful information. However, I do think the ability to modify the inactive message for a given form (or even redirect it to a web page) as easily as we can now change (or redirect) the "success message" on a form-by-form basis would be quite useful in many cases and is a reasonable request. I am a bit disappointed that no one from the Appnitro staff has seen fit to respond to any of my feature request postings, so that I can at least be sure that they have seen them. Even a response of, "Sorry, but we have no plans to ever implement that feature," would be better than no response at all.

   Posted 14 years ago #

4. williamansley
   Member

   I am updating this posting in the hope that someone from Appnitro will acknowledge that they have seen this request (please see the original message in this thread). I still believe this is a feature that many users would find very useful, which will take relatively little work to implement and which will increase the complexity of the interface only nominally.

   Posted 13 years ago #

5. williamansley
   Member

   Sorry, Yuniar! I just realized that I posted a different message about this that you did reply to. I'll try to be more careful about that from now on. I will just add that there is obviously one other person who would like this feature (fmolstad, see below), and I'm sure there are many more who would find it very helpful who don't use, at at least don't take the time to post to, this forum.

   http://www.appnitro.com/forums/topic/change-the-form_inactive-text?replies=2#post-17111

   Posted 13 years ago #

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