Is it possible to have custom output with this hack?
For example I want my members to enter EXIF data for images as they post them however... I want that info to fall to size=1 and float to the right(justified)

Is there a way to customize the output of the form data?

kay I found it :) This is very easy to use
Is there any way to use the attachment feature? I want to use this for an image contest submission system and we use the attachment system to upload the images...

Lucas: Try this. Go to the Forum Permissions, go to the Usergroup in question and change "Can Post Threads" and "Follow Forum Moderation Rules" to Yes. If that doesn't work, check the permissions for that forum.


BTW, there is a new Form Hack 4.0. Go there instead.

Ok, here is a picture of how I want the layout to be, but I still can't work it out.

Can anyone help?

Hello Everyone,

First of all, thanks for the hard work and also for everyones interest in develoiping this nice form addition.

I do have one request although. Is it possible to modifiy the form to allow an image upload (can also set image upload types, ie' .jpg,.gif, etc...)?

I love the form, but this would work great in allowing potential advertisers to also upload their advertising image at the sametime when submitting the completed form.

Thank You,

Nuguru :classic:

To see the form that I am talking about, Click Here.

I just installed this fantastic mod the other day. Thank you, Abe!

I've been working on my first form. One problem I'm encountering is that after filling in the form, all of the selections in the dropdown menus revert to their first choice in the available options (rather than the user chosen option) if I "preview" the form [no default dropdown selections are used]. In contrast, all of the data in the normal question/answer boxes is retained as expected.

Is there a way to make sure that the user-selected options in the dropdown fields are maintainted until the user either saves the thread or pushes the reset button? Is there a setting I've missed or mucked up?

Thanks. -- Rik

ps: I also tried experimenting with having default selections in the dropdown menus. In that case, when I previewed the post, the results in the dropdown menus reverted to their default selections. [This is just an FYI as I'm not planning to use default selections anymore with the dropdown menus.]

I was sometimes running into the following error message when submitting the FORM to create a thread:

"No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"

I'd seen references to it within this mod thread but I couldn't find a solution to the problem. After some experimentation I was able to figure out what was wrong in my case. So I'll share it here in case this happens to anyone else.

I use vbSEO to create URLs out of the vb thread titles for Google. So within FORMS I was creating nice thread titles by concatenating several "answers" to create a nice URL/thread title. The problem was that the thread titles sometimes got too long for vBulletin. And when that happened, I broke the system and got the error message shown above.

The moral of the story is to watch the length of your FORM submission thread titles -- especially if they are variable in length.

Hope that helps others. -- Rik

thanks so much for posting this!!!! It was so frustrating trying to pin down why random users couldn't post using the form and others could. (I thought it was a conflict with some other plugin on my site) Of course I couldn't replicate the problem because I always used a really short thread title and as little info as possible just to get a test post done. It would be super helpful if this mods was "fixed" to truncate a thread title that gets too long for vbulletin to handle.

Is there a way to default Prefill the WYSIWYG text area in the Forms Hack?

I'd like users to post a product review, but i want it to be in a specific format (colors, layout etc).

It would be MUCH better if I could prefill that template into the main text area for a form.

Just wanted to give thanks for this great hack! I have two different forms on my site.

One I use for members to submit nominations for a "Member of the Month" type contest we have. I used AJAX controls so members can just type the first few letters of a registered user's name (to select for the contest) and it brings up the users just like it does on other parts of the site.....it works great with this hack and it works great!