Hi everyone,

I wanted to let everyone know some of the upcoming enhancements and features within the 2.3 release of Dynamic Forms. We are almost complete with the development phase of the upcoming release and should have a beta release ready within a few weeks and the final release ready by the end of April.

A few upcoming enhancements:

Question Events

• New enhancements to question events including the ability to select multiple affected fields from an event. Currently if you setup an event so that if the user 'checks' a box, or 'selects' a response from a dropdownlist you can hide a question or display a hidden question. In the upcoming release you can setup each event to hide as many questions as you would like based on the event response or shows as many questions that are marked hidden.
• New enhancements to disable field based on event (field is still visible, just disabled)
• All field types can be affected by question events now including text/HTML

Performance Enhancements

• We are implementing several new features for performance including a setup wizard for a list of default questions to start fom, AJAX/Javascript when setting up new fields for defaulting sort order, help text, short field name, etc... All based on initial question label.
• Implementing ability to 'clone' fields/copy fields when setting up a new question

General

• Content Localization, Question Events, Dynamic Complection Events IPORTABLE now (before just questions and settings)
• New stylesheet classes for all elements of the form
• New ability to have field labels and fields display in the same column - important for smaller forms in smaller DotNetNuke containers.
• Now you can override the label and field stylesheet class for each field
• Ability to pass a unique completionID session variable after a form is submitted (useful for integration with other modules such as Tailored Text/HTML)

We will keep you posted with additional release information once we have the concrete dates.

Thanks,

Chad

What is the procedure to upgrade this module? Will existing forms be upgraded or need recreating to take advantage of the new features?

Thanks,
Ken

Hi Chad,

How do you deal with point upgrades for Dynamic Forms? I have 2.2. Will I get a patch at Snowcovered or do we need to purchase every point upgrade?

Thanks,

Will Sugg
www.planetmaine.net

Will,

Well basically here is how upgrades work...

1. If you purchase within 30 days a previous version you will always receive a patch notice if a new release is available.

2. To upgrade from a point release (i.e. 2.1 to 2.2 etc...) there is a discount of approx 80% per upgrade. So to upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 you would receive 80% off, to upgrade from 2.1 to 2.3 it would be 60% off etc...

3. If you are part of our Data Springs Collection package then you are entitled to all new releases and module updates as long as you are part of the most current collection package. We typically offer 3 collection packages per year and with each new collection you are also entitled to 80% off upgrading the collection. So.... One option is just to make sure you are part of the latest collection and then you don't have to worry as much about the point upgrades.

We are continuing to review the possibility of a subscription package but at this point we are not setup and still reviewing this option.

-Chad