Multi-page forms: best practices?

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Chris Detmer	Monday 12 November 2007 1:42:31 pm I'm building a large form that consists of multiple pages of fields which a user will step through. There will also be an option to save the current information as a draft and complete it at a later time. Currently I am loading all the pages in separate divs, hiding all but the first until the user clicks "continue", and submitting the form all at once at the end. I'm looking for suggestions on best practices, specifically in dealing with session information, drafts and recalling the saved information. Any insight would be helpful. - Chris
gabriele francescotto	Monday 12 November 2007 11:04:35 pm I had several times the need to create long surveys; the approch I followed was the <i>divide et impera</i>, dividing the survey in different modules, and creating different ez objects per each of them. I also created a folder (unique for all the users), customizing the template to guide the user in the different actions I need from him, and in particular: - create new objects - modifing existing objects using ez roles, you can control perfectly the right of the users in this folder. you can see a shot of an application I made recently: http://up.opencontent.it/powos.jpg www.opencontent.it via Verdi 19, 38100 Trento
Karl Latiss	Monday 19 November 2007 9:22:21 pm You may also want to check out form builder by designIT. http://www.designit.com.au/solutions/ez_publish_form_builder Atvert Systems http://www.atvert.com.au
/dev/null	Tuesday 20 November 2007 6:54:59 am Or support the Open Funding's eZ Survey project, <i>http://ez.no/developer/open_funding/open_funding_projects/ez_survey#msg152783</i> They seem to have the very best ideas when it comes to some of these ... another related if not similar thread in the forum is <i>http://ez.no/developer/forum/setup_design/content_class_attribute_description</i> <i>/dev/null</i> eZpedia community documentation project: http://ezpedia.org

eZ debug

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Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	64

Timing points:

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Script end	0.6554		1,417.0547

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0031	0.4659	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0013	0.1973	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0010	0.1559	1	0.0010
Mysqli_queries	0.5981	91.2501	64	0.0093
Looping result	0.0006	0.0966	62	0.0000
Template Total	0.6317	96.4	2	0.3159
Template load	0.0019	0.2951	2	0.0010
Template processing	0.6298	96.0869	2	0.3149
Template load and register function	0.0003	0.0482	1	0.0003
states
state_id_array	0.0008	0.1152	1	0.0008
state_identifier_array	0.0014	0.2118	2	0.0007
Override
Cache load	0.0016	0.2442	25	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0010	0.1528	4	0.0003
Fetch class attribute name	0.0018	0.2740	7	0.0003
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0045	0.6829	4	0.0011
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0023	7	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0033	0.5085	28	0.0001
String conversion	0.0000	0.0009	4	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

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Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded
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3	content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl	<No override>	extension/sevenx/design/simple/templates/content/datatype/view/ezimage.tpl
4	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
6	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
3	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 18 Number of unique templates used: 6

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs