Hidden fields in Submission View

I had a hidden field (UniqueNumber) in the View and it took me ages to work out why the whole app did not "produce the goods" and with a bit of deletion of fields one by one I discovered it was the Unique Number that was the problem. As I have not tried any other hidden fields in the app I would like to know if a hidden field other than a Unique Number works OK. I'll try it with a Test Form when I have a moment. Tried it and hidden fields kill the view.

I would like to flag up the fact that a URL to a website page does not work either, again it kills the view altogether likewise an email address.

The developer shows the email but not as a mailto, that means the user viewing the page has to copy and paste the email address into their mail client in order to contact the person that uploaded the information, in this case a Honda Motorbike for sale.

***  Could JotForm ask the developer of this app to look at these two last possible features being included.

Regards Willy MG

Are you referring to the Submission View App? If possible, please provide us with the steps to reproduce mentioned issue with the Unique ID field.

I would like to flag up the fact that a URL to a website page does not work either, again it kills the view altogether likewise an email address.

Is there a link that we can check?

The developer shows the email but not as a mailto, that means the user viewing the page has to copy and paste the email address into their mail client in order to contact the person that uploaded the information, in this case a Honda Motorbike for sale.

Please confirm that you would like to have clickable 'mailto' links on Submission View / List View page, and we will see if there are any options.

Sorry the text was copied from a thread that it should not have been in, so that is why it does not specify.

Yes I am referring to Submission View.

Regarding a link to check, I will use Form Builder tomorrow to create a "Test Form" to show what the problem is.

An Email 'Mailto' can be inserted and works OK on the preview but when the 'iframe' code is pasted into the Webpage it kills the process of the 'Listing' and or ' The View'. Seems strange that it works OK in the 'Preview' and not the actual page.

Does that make sense now, I hope so !!

Regards Willy MG 

Hi Willy,

Would you mind providing to us the website URL where you've embedded your submissions listing so we can see the difference? This might help us identify the root cause of the problem.

I just created a sample submissions listing out of my form submissions and then embedded the form, so far it's working fine here. https://shots.jotform.com/elton/test_submissions_view.html

We'll await your reply. Thanks!

Yes I can see that that works OK. I can do the same, but try putting in a 'mailto' in the code  and or a 'Hidden Field' like 'Unique Number' in the Form and see what happens.

For the 'mailto' I used <A HREF="mailto:no-one@snai1mai1.com?subject=look at this website&body=Hi, I found this http://www.geocities.com/wowhtml/"></A>

I will do the Demo Form later today so that you can see what happens with my form.

Regards Willy MG 

OK I have two form made up they are :-

This one has the 'email and hidden fiels' 

http://form.jotformpro.com/form/40713585379968

This one has 'NO email and a hidden field'. It is a clone of the one above, it does not work either possibly because it is a clone and there is some stray code lurking in it from the previous one

http://form.jotformpro.com/form/40723128062951

This is one that works OK and was buit ealier, this one has a hidden field that I am not displaying as it kills the Views 

http://form.jotformpro.com/form/40466986732971

You could also go to http://www.mgcaledonian.com/parts-for-sale-viewer/ and see the http://form.jotformpro.com/form/40466986732971 live on the site

I hope this helps identify the cause of the Hidden and email fields killing the Views.

Please feel free to add your own submissions to any of these, I can delete yours later!!  

Regards Willy MG

Hello,

Thank you for the update, and the test forms.

Currently running some tests, will update you once they are complete.

Hello,

Thank you for your patience.

We're having a little difficulty reproducing your issue...

I conducted the following tests:

1. cloned your form, and ran some submissions

2. Opened up the submisison view app

3. added in the anchor tags for the email field with a mailto attribute

4. Published the iframe on a sample page - it worked

5. Added in a hidden field - refreshed the submissin view page - the mailto links were still present.

I then did some independent tests.

1. Created a form similar to yours: http://form.myjotform.com/form/40725860749564?

2. Did the same test as listed above - and the mailto attributes were not broken or stripped - https://shots.jotform.com/titus/Iframetest2.html - please note that the source form has a hidden field within it - which are the ones causing the mailto href attribute to break.

The next question would therefore be:

1. Show us the location where you have published the submission view iframe with broken links

2. Show us a location where you have published the submision view iframe with correct links

We will take a look and advice.

Thank you for your patience.

Your Previous Response:

Well at the moment all seems to be OK.

I do not know what I was doing wrong but that all seems to work now and I can only thank you for all your patience in sorting out a problem that appears not to have been there.

I am sure I did it all correctly, anyway it is sorted.

Thanks.

Regards Willy MG 

PS     Feel a bit foolish

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