Calculated Fields Form Tutorials

Tips and cases of use for a successful WordPress website with calculated forms.

Category: Form Features

Tutorials / Form Features

Advanced Equations Editor

Categories: Calculated Field Operations, Form Features

Equations editor with line numbers to identify easier the code that is being edited, with color highlighting for the reserved words, code completion, auto-closing for parentheses, curly and the square brackets, and with errors detection.

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Calculated Fields Forms, the most misunderstood operations

Categories: Form Features, Calculated Field Operations

Very popular and important operations in the plugin that can result hard to understand, like conditional statements, rounding operations, distance estimation, date time operations.

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Cases of use for a delivery project, transportation or any other project based on distance calculation

Categories: Add-ons, API & Services Integration, Calculated Field Operations, Form Features

How to determine the price of a service that is based on the distance between addresses.

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Controlling the access to the forms

Categories: Add-ons, Form Features, Security

There are many situations where it is needed to keep some forms private, accessible only for some users or users' roles, and not public for everyone. Or situations where you want the users can access to their submitted information, or modify it. The "Users Permissions" add-on, distributed with the Developer and Platinum versions of the plugin, has the answer.

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Customizing the form's design

Categories: Form Features, Design & Layout

Customizing the design of forms by selecting between predefined templates, rewriting of plugin's styles, and/or defining new ones.

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Dependencies between fields

Categories: Controls, Form Features

There are many cases of use in which some fields depend on the values of other fields in the form, for example, in e-commerce with different types of products, a lodging project with different rooms typologies, etc.

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Formatting the form (distributing the fields in columns)

Categories: Form Features, Design & Layout

Display the fields in the form as a list (one below the other) is not always the recommended design, because the form can become too long and bored, and distribute the fields in columns (display some fields beside the others) would be properly solution.

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Forms Revisions

Categories: Form Features

The revisions are automatic backups of the forms, every time a form is modified, allowing to do a rollback to a previous version.

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Getting help from the AI

Categories: AI, Form Features

Using AI to get help without leaving the form builder.

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How do I create a new template to use with my forms?

Categories: Design & Layout, Extending Forms, Form Features

The post describes how to create a new design template and apply it to the forms.

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Printing Forms

Categories: Calculated Field Operations, Complementary Plugins, Extending Forms, Form Features, PDF Generation

Printing only the form, without the rest of page's content, and with the values entered or selected by the users, but preserving the form's design, can be a complex task that requires some programming skills.

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Sending notification emails with the Calculated Fields Form plugin

Categories: Form Features, User Communications

The Calculated Fields Form plugin allows to send notification emails after the forms' submissions, with copy to the user that submits the form.

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Server Side Equations

Categories: Add-ons, API & Services Integration, Calculated Field Operations, Form Features

The server side equations are the alternative to use server side code or the server resources in the equations, access to external APIs or services, and hide the business logic.

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The Calculated Fields Form plugin is GDPR compliant

Categories: Form Features, Security

The “Calculated Fields Form” plugin includes a new control: Acceptance (GDPR) to ensure the users give their consent in store the information collected by the form.

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Unique Fields Values

Categories: Add-ons, Form Features

Using the Unique Fields Values add-on to avoid duplication.

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Using the information stored in a database or csv file in the form

Categories: Calculated Field Operations, Controls, Form Features, Data Sources

The use of DS fields for reading the information stored in a database or CSV file, and its use in the equations.

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