Overriding input name attributes in custom forms

(Keith Bolland) #1

I've been looking into ways to use the Matrix custom form assets to let our web authors create forms that post to our existing forms engine. (For complicated and annoying technical reasons we can't store form responses in our copy of Matrix.)

 

For this to work I need to be able to control the name attributes of the form tags. A normal Matrix custom form produces something like this:

I need to be able to replace "q255640:q2" with something that has meaning to our forms engine. (And, ideally, wrap the input tag in some containing markup.)

 

I got quite excited when I noticed that "Form Question" was one of the options in the "Asset Types to List" drop-down of Asset Listing assets, but I've tried actually making an asset listing to list out the Form Question assets below a form, and it doesn't work, so I assume Asset Listings can't actually do that.

Has anybody else ever tried to do something like this? Can it be done?

(Joel Porgand) #2

You can use asset listings to list form questions - just make sure you specify the explicit form question subtype (ie. "form question - Text") as well as the generic "form question" type

 

There's a few other gotchas as well that I can't remember.

 

It's probably a bad idea to get too adventurous with it.