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Re: multi-page form [message #174726 is a reply to message #174725]

Wed, 29 June 2011 17:44

William Gill
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Registered: March 2011

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On 6/29/2011 1:05 PM, Michael Fesser wrote:
> .oO(William Gill)
>
>> I am working on a form that will traverse many pages (lots of context
>> and a few inputs on each page). My concern is the user navigating back
>> and forth between pages w/o losing data (i.e. via the back button).
>
> Why should they fill out a form page and then, instead of submitting it,
> hit the back button? And if they do, it's their problem I think.
My client wants the user to fill out the application form. If I let the
user screw up, that's my problem.

> Every 'next' button on the form pages should be a submit button and send
> the data from the current page to the server, where it's stored in a
> session. After such a submit the user can change to any previous page as
> he wants, because the data is already stored on the server.
That goes w/o saying.

My concern is not when a user does what I want and expect, but when they
don't.

>> As far as I can tell, I need to integrate ECMA script, XMLHttpRequest,
>> and session variables, triggered by the onLoad and onUnload events.
>
> Ugly, unreliable and IMHO completely unnecessary.
>
> Micha

May need to use different events, and realize nothing is 100%, but this
is a safety net.

As far as JS being disabled (mentioned regularly throughout this
thread), the user has two choices. 1) Print amd mail the pdf, or 2)
enable JS to do things "on line."

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		multi-page form By: William Gill on Mon, 27 June 2011 16:40
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Mon, 27 June 2011 17:31
		Re: multi-page form By: William Gill on Mon, 27 June 2011 17:41
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Mon, 27 June 2011 18:24
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 27 June 2011 21:32
		Re: multi-page form By: William Gill on Mon, 27 June 2011 22:01
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Mon, 27 June 2011 22:18
		Re: multi-page form By: Graham Hobbs on Wed, 06 July 2011 00:06
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 27 June 2011 22:54
		Re: multi-page form By: William Gill on Tue, 28 June 2011 08:22
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 28 June 2011 10:53
		Re: multi-page form By: William Gill on Tue, 28 June 2011 16:13
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Tue, 28 June 2011 18:00
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 28 June 2011 19:02
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Tue, 28 June 2011 19:06
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Tue, 28 June 2011 19:46
		Re: multi-page form By: William Gill on Tue, 28 June 2011 20:05
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Tue, 28 June 2011 20:12
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Tue, 28 June 2011 20:20
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 28 June 2011 22:58
		Re: multi-page form By: Jeff North on Tue, 28 June 2011 23:30
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 June 2011 00:21
		Re: multi-page form By: Jeff North on Wed, 29 June 2011 04:52
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 June 2011 11:59
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Wed, 29 June 2011 12:09
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 June 2011 12:41
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Wed, 29 June 2011 12:48
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 June 2011 15:08
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Wed, 29 June 2011 16:27
		Re: multi-page form By: Jeff North on Wed, 29 June 2011 13:10
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 June 2011 15:09
		Re: multi-page form By: Michael Fesser on Wed, 29 June 2011 16:56
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 June 2011 19:32
		Re: multi-page form By: Peter H. Coffin on Tue, 28 June 2011 18:57
		Re: multi-page form By: Jeff North on Tue, 28 June 2011 22:46
		Re: multi-page form By: William Gill on Tue, 28 June 2011 23:29
		Re: multi-page form By: Jeff North on Wed, 29 June 2011 05:15
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 June 2011 12:01
		Re: multi-page form By: Michael Fesser on Wed, 29 June 2011 17:00
		Re: multi-page form By: Michael Fesser on Wed, 29 June 2011 17:05
		Re: multi-page form By: William Gill on Wed, 29 June 2011 17:44

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