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Confiforms - Smart Dropdown not populating

Jan-Hinrich Eymers

Hello,

im working with a complex form.
For testing purposes (dont want to break the live form) i copied the whole confluence page and renamed it.

The page contains two forms. Form 1 is referencing the second form with a smart dropdown field.

Now, what happens if I want to create a new entry in Form 1 with the registrations control macro the dropdown works as expected showing entries from Form 2 as options.
After creation a subpage is created with EditControls nested in a Cardview. The subpages represent one single entry in Form 1.

Within that formview, nor in inline edit the options are shown within said dropdown field.

In the original form i copied it works in creation formview, and also in edit formview as well as inline of the subpage.

Any hints as to what im missing?

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Alex Medved _ConfiForms_

Hi @Jan-Hinrich Eymers

When you copy a page you get a copy of the page and your smart fields will continue to point at the same page they were configured to in the original page

Alex

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Alex Medved _ConfiForms_

Hi @Jan-Hinrich Eymers

When you copy a page you get a copy of the page and your smart fields will continue to point at the same page they were configured to in the original page

Alex

Jan-Hinrich Eymers

Thanks for the prompt answer Alex!
Yes, i changed the page reference in the field definition.

The entries in Form 2 differ from the original form. These different options are shown in the registration ("Create") control form view, but not in the edit view / inline on the subpages that are created with IFTTT rules. So field definition cant be the culprit I suspect.

The field macros point to the copy form as well, i adjusted the view macros in which they are nested and tested successfully that they are referencing the copy form fields. ( e.g. by changing non-smart dropdown options and see how this reflects in the subpages)

Alex Medved _ConfiForms_

Then I am really puzzled with what is NOT working for you...

Could you please explain this a bit more?

Jan-Hinrich Eymers

Yes. Sorry for the confusion.

Form 1:
field definition macro with smart dropdown referencing Form 2

Form 2:
contains entries (test1,test2,test3)

On the page where Form 1 and Form 2 are defined is a registration control macro.
If i use that one (create button in most forms), the options (test1,test2,test3) are shown for the smart dropdown field.
(--> reference of dropdown is working)

After creation a subpage is generated. This subpage contains cardview macros with the entry:id filter similar to the tutorials in the confiforms docs. It also contains a Edit Controls macro to have a proper form view.
In the inline edit of the cardviews the dropdown shows "No matches found" instead of the options (test1,test2,test3).
Same behaviour of the edit form view on the subpage.

EDIT:
the other (non-smart) fields work fine and as expected and are referencing the test form correctly.

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