Database design for a form builder in MYSQL - mysql

Currently I am working on a form builder,
the user can add input box with different name into the form.
Notice that the form will be stored as HTML code, so the only concern is the input box name storage and submit form value
Now I have draft a table like this
form
-----
id
inputs
------
form_id
name
values
-------
input_id
value
One problem I can think of is the data type of value,
the above design works only if the value is text / textarea
How to handle if the input box is file upload / radio / select?
so are there are Any better design,
thanks a lot for helping.

you have to store element type also. according to the element type,find out which html element it is and render this

You will need an extra table for radio and select, since it has multiple rows for one <input> field.
Don't forget about optional things like id=, name=, style=, class=, etc.
I predict that your finished product will be as clumsy to use as typing the form elements by hand.

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Multiple form labels - Lightbox

I am editing html codes for web accessibility but I faced one problem about Multiple form labels. I am using Wave plugin to check web accessibility.
Errors is
Multiple form labels
What It Means
A form control has more than one label associated with it.
The problem is that there is a page user can input user info, and a button to call pop up then the pop up has all same fields again to register if user did not input the field.
Instead of changing ID of the field in popup, is there any quick and easy way to remove the error?
From W3Schools:
The id attribute specifies a unique id for an HTML element (the value
must be unique within the HTML document).
So yes, you need to define a unique ID for each and every component. This is the only clean way to solve your problem, otherwise a screenreader could read the wrong label when you focus one of your input fields.
One way to fix this other than changing IDs is to wrap the input in the label.
<label>
First Name
<input />
</label>
This is semantically correct and avoids the labels needing for and associated input id attributes.
You obviously might need to refactor some stuff and it seems like more hard work than just changing some IDs but that is an option (I know you will have probably fixed this by now, this is more for reference if someone else comes to this question.)
See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/774065/2702894

Is there any way to edit columns with a form in Access?

Seems not to be possible, since Access relates rows not columns, but I would like to have the option to edit columns by a form, for example I have the next table:
Table
I want to allow the user to edit and change the actual name of A1, A2 and A3 by the use of a form like this:
Imaginative Form
The form of the image it's just for ilustrate, not sure but maybe this can be accomplished by some VBA code.
When using the form wizard, create a column-based form. You can of course also create the form yourself. In the details section align the fields as desired:

Can't remove the value entered in the djFilteringSelect dojo control in xPages

I am using the djFilteringSelect control to show values in a dropdown as user type a value.
The lookup and typehead is working fine. The user type a letter and the dropdown allow the user to select a value which is then displayed in the dropdown field.
If the user now decide to remove the value first selected so that the combobox is empty and leave the field, then the first value in the list is now automatically filled in.
The consequence of this is that if the user have added a value there is no way to remove the value and leave the box emtpy.
I am using required=false for both the control and the dojo attribute but it does not seem to help. There are also a few other djFilteringSelect attributes I have tried like "Autocomplete" and "trim" but it does not work
Here is the code
<xe:djFilteringSelect id="test" type="select" store="jsondata" searchAttr="data" required="false" labelType="html" invalidMessage="Not valid">
<xe:this.dojoAttributes>
<xp:dojoAttribute name="required" value="false"></xp:dojoAttribute>
</xe:this.dojoAttributes>
</xe:djFilteringSelect>
Initally the field is not required, but if the user have entered a value it is required.
My question is if there a way to prevent the djFilteringSelect control to always populate the field if I have previously added a value
I found someone who solved this in another stack overflow topic, by creating an empty entry in my data store. but I could not get this to work
Dojo: Select of empty value for FilteringSelect while required=false
I do this quite a lot. Right now I don't have a working sample to show you (since I moved to bootstrap - and have to code the selects by manually adding select2 controls) but something like this should do it...
I add an "empty" value at the top of my select - and that seems to work no matter whether I am using a combobox, djCombobox or combobox with select2 from bootstrap. My markup typically looks like:
<xp:comboBox id="inputLocationSelector" value="#{User.catchListType}" disableClientSideValidation="true">
<xp:selectItem itemLabel="(none)" itemValue=""></xp:selectItem>
<xp:selectItems>
<xp:this.value><![CDATA[${Configuration.meta.listLocationTypeOptions}]]></xp:this.value>
</xp:selectItems>
</xp:comboBox>
Then you could specify "(none)", "All" or " " for the "not-selected" value depending on your needs.
Validation is a different thing so just specifying "required=false" does not give you the "empty" value.
/John

Add Numbers from two different forms

I want to obtain Numbers from different forms, add them up and display the output in a different form.
For example, There are two forms: Form 1 and Form 2. The information I need is located in Form 1. So I get the numbers from Form 1, add them up and display the result in Form 2.
I am not sure how to proceed here.
Please advice.
Select the text box where you want to output the answer, go to properties > Go to data>Constrol source>click on "..." and type the following code:
Forms!Form_3!Text_3.Value=(Val(Forms!Form_1!Text_1.Value)) / (Val(Forms!Form_2!Text_2.Value))

Updating a form field with a link

I have access to form field in the administrative view.
Example
<label>Number:</label>
<input type="text" name="title" size="50"/><br/>
I do not have access to modify the html syntax, the only thing i can do is updating the form field with a value.
In the form field i want to update it with a number. I also want to have a link assigned to that number.
So when i click that number it directs us to the link.
Is there a way i can do that?
This method is tedious, but you could use the jQuery nth-selector to select the specific form element that you are dealing with.
http://api.jquery.com/nth-child-selector/
This method is risky, however, since you might add other form elements before it, altering the index of your target input element.
Afterwords, you could use the .val() jQuery method to change your input value.
Nonetheless, again, this method is not safe because the index of the form element could change. I would beg the powers of be to be able to add an ID or some identifying attribute to that form element.