Appointment Slots Widget: add additional text fields to a single selection.

  • kaleenscott
    Asked on July 29, 2019 at 6:22 PM

    Is there a way to add multiple lines to a selection when using the "Appointment Slots" widget? When I hit shift + enter, it creates a new option, but I want to add additional lines of text to a single selection.

  • David JotForm Support Manager
    Replied on July 29, 2019 at 7:04 PM

    Unfortunately, that is not possible. Could you explain the purpose of such a functionality? We would like to understand it to forward it to our features request list, so it might be implemented in the future.

  • kaleenscott
    Replied on July 29, 2019 at 7:06 PM

    Okay, thanks for responding! I'm creating a list of restaurants for guests to choose from using the Appointment Slots feature, but I wanted to include more information with the restaurant selection like cuisine, distance, special notes, and links to menus.

  • kaleenscott
    Replied on July 29, 2019 at 7:55 PM

    Or is there a better way/different way to accomplish this?

  • David JotForm Support Manager
    Replied on July 29, 2019 at 8:04 PM

    I assume that you are working on this form: https://www.jotform.com/91764539337165


    A workaround would be setting up each option in an Appointment Slot widget, and then putting each description below each Appointment Slot:

    1564444662options Screenshot 10

    Then create conditions to show each description if one of the options is selected: https://www.jotform.com/help/316-How-to-Show-or-Hide-Fields-Base-on-User-s-Answer

    1564444879conditions Screenshot 21

    Result: https://form.jotform.com/92097020647962

    1564445027result Screenshot 32

    I also added this code to get the Appointment Slots closer when the descriptions are not visible: https://www.jotform.com/help/117-How-to-Inject-Custom-CSS-Codes

    #id_6{

        padding-bottom: 0px !important;

    }

    #id_19,#id_20,#id_21{

        padding-top: 0px !important;

        padding-bottom: 0px !important;

    }

    Let us know if you need more help.

  • David JotForm Support Manager
    Replied on July 29, 2019 at 8:06 PM

    If that works for you, please clone my form as shown on this guide: https://www.jotform.com/help/42-How-to-Clone-an-Existing-Form-from-a-URL

  • kaleenscott
    Replied on July 30, 2019 at 11:45 AM

    Thanks! Is there a way to eliminate the extra space between the restaurant description and the Appointment Slot Widget for each?

  • David JotForm Support Manager
    Replied on July 30, 2019 at 12:09 PM

    Yes there is, I have injected this code to my demo form: https://www.jotform.com/help/117-How-to-Inject-Custom-CSS-Codes

    #id_14,#id_16,#id_17,#id_18,#text_14,#text_16,#text_17#,text_18{

        padding-top: 0px !important;

    }

    #cid_6,#cid_19,#cid_20,#cid_21 {

        margin-bottom: -15px !important;

    }

    Result: https://form.jotform.com/92097020647962

    1564502822result Screenshot 10

    You may inject it to your form, or clone my form again. Let us know if you need more help.

  • kaleenscott
    Replied on July 30, 2019 at 2:09 PM

    Thanks! I'm going with your first suggestion by setting each appointment separately in an Appointment Slot Widget underneath each restaurant description. I think I erased some of the code that was inputting extra space.

    Just to be sure i'm using the Appointment Slot Widget correctly, once someone selects the restaurant, will it disappear from the list so it is no longer available for another person to select?

  • David JotForm Support Manager
    Replied on July 30, 2019 at 2:22 PM

    It will depend on the number you will setup, in my demo each option can be selected 15 times:

    1564510918available Screenshot 10

    Let us know if you have more questions.

  • kaleenscott
    Replied on July 30, 2019 at 2:34 PM

    Hmm, I wonder if there's another Widget I should be using. The 15 represents the number of guests each restaurant can take and the regional directors will be choosing the restaurants for their attendees. Is there a feature that will allow me to display the number of guest's the restaurant can take, and have the user input the amount of spots they're taking from that particular restaurant? And once all the spots have been filled, the restaurant no longer shows as an available option.

  • stevenmarshall
    Replied on July 30, 2019 at 3:17 PM

    Hi @kaleenscott,

    Another widget option that might meet your requirement is the Quantity Gift Registry Widget. 

    You are able to set up with table limits. Then once the total limit has been reached the next person trying to fill out the form that table would be grayed out and not available to select.

    1564513209Screen Shot 2019 07 30 at 11 Screenshot 10

    Or For example, someone selects 5 for table 2 the next person would see 6 left for Table 2.

    1564513354Screen Shot 2019 07 30 at 11 Screenshot 21

    1564513447Screen Shot 2019 07 30 at 12 Screenshot 32

    Guide: widget/quantity_gift_registry

    There is also a couple of other widgets such as the Inventory widget and Ticket Purchases widget that might meet your requirements.

    Guide: widget/inventory

    Guide: widget/ticket_purchases

    Please let us know if you have any other questions.

    Thank you.



  • kaleenscott
    Replied on July 30, 2019 at 7:27 PM

    Thanks for the suggestion, that's what I was looking to do :-)

    Is there a way to eliminate some of that space between the restaurant description and the gift registry widget?

  • Girish JotForm Support
    Replied on July 30, 2019 at 7:56 PM

    You can adjust the spacing from the Form Designer. Please see the screen cast below.

    1564530949screencast3107 1 Screenshot 10

  • kaleenscott
    Replied on July 31, 2019 at 1:17 PM

    Thanks for all the help in here, this is my first time using JotForm!

    I have one last question, when I input a "Submit" button, where is the information being submitted once filled out?
  • David JotForm Support Manager
    Replied on July 31, 2019 at 2:01 PM

    Your new question will be addressed in a separate forum thread: https://www.jotform.com/answers/1910854