Form Builder Text Fields

[kclearylcmc]

Greetings, everyone!

I have two problems I’m running into with text fields in form builder. I have a work around for one but would love to find a better solution. Anytime I add text to a form builder page (from the “layout” menu), Gibbon automatically labels it in the database as “text.” That means I always get an error when I try to add multiple text fields because there is a duplicate label on that page. I can update fieldName in the mysql command line to something unique to avoid the error, but it seems it would be better to just give each text box a unique name (or a choice of name) when created.

Related to that issue, I used to use html markup within a text field to share complex information on a form.

In Gibbon 27, though, any markup I enter is erased when I submit the text field. I can no longer format my layout to organize the information.

I know that html markup has security concerns–is there another way to control page layouts, though? I tried making multiple text fields (after submitting mysql updates for each one), but it doesn’t look as clean as before.

Thanks!
Kevin

[kclearylcmc]

Hello again in the light of day (at least here in Montana). The deprecation of html tags is proving much more problematic than I thought last night. I can no longer insert images, tables, or hyperlinks into my forms anywhere, and this was a big part of the forms I had built.

I’m going to try a version downgrade at this point so I can at least prepare current program needs, but I could really use another solution. Thank you!

Kevin