Confiforms Smart Multi-Select - using a form on a different page

[Rachel Bedi]

I am trying to set up a smart multi-select field in a Confiform form to pull data from a form on another page in the same space. 

Under the field "Page where the ConfiForms Form is defined" to configure the smart multi-select field, I am only able to select a form on the same page in which I am building the multi-select field. Am I doing something wrong or is multi-select only available to utilize forms and fields from the same page?

To provide additional detail, here is exactly what I am trying to do;

I have a field "ImpactedSystems" on a form titled "ProjectIntake" on a page titled "Project Intake". I have a second form titled "SupportedApps" on a different page titled "Applications". This form is used to enter all of the applications my group currently supports and should only be accessible by myself and a small subset of other users in my group. I want the "ImpactedSystems" field from the first page to be a smart multi-select which displays the values from the "SupportedApps" form on the "Applications" page. 

I have tried to get to the Vertuna ConfiForms wiki, but receive a proxy error on several of the pages and have been unable to find a page specifically documenting the smart multi-select, if someone else is aware of the page that I've been unable to find, or can help answer the question that would be much appreciated!

Thanks so much in advance!

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Rachel Bedi 

The field could take options from a form on another page

Start typing the page title in the "Page where the ConfiForms Form is defined"  parameter and it should offer you the page to select

Alex

[Rachel Bedi]

Hi Alex (the ConfiForms guru!) thanks for replying so quickly. That is the behavior I would expect, however it does not offer the page to select, even once I've typed out the full name of the page the form I need is on. 

Wondering if this is an internal issue, just not sure how to troubleshoot. Would page restrictions have any effect on this?

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Might be a Confluence search index running a bit out of sync. Is it a fresh page?

Quick test - does Confluence search finds it when you type in a search box (top right corner)?

Permissions should not be a problem, as I assume you have access to the page you are searching for, right?

[Rachel Bedi]

Hey Alex - that's what I was thinking is that the search index was running behind so I left it overnight and it still wasn't working.

I was just now able to solve it (though it's not a root cause, unfortunately) I ended up deleting the field (I had originally had it defined as a text field and decided to change it to a smart multi select to have better control over the data input into the form, maybe this had something to do with it?) and then just created  a new field in the same position with the smart multi-select and that seemed to take care of the issue.

This is something I've noticed in Confluence in general, not necessarily with ConfiForms macro exclusively (have experienced this with multi-excerpt include as well), that if a page needs to be referenced in the macro I sometimes have to delete and start over.

Thank you SO much for your super fast response and help!

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

Glad it is resolved!

And really sad I cannot contribute more into finding the root cause - such glitches do happen occasionally, but are really hard to reproduce in a separate environment and even harder to get these fixed