I am noob to DF, so I am sorry if this topic has been done to death, but I searched for hours and have not found a solution.

If I create a form that has a Checkbox List, Combo Box, or Radio Buttons, and I create a Completion Event to email the results of the form, I can only get values. Both the $(ShortName_Text), and $(ShortName_FullResults) parameters are empty.  Shouldn’t these parameters contain either the text option, or the full results of the question?

Ie:
Name: Question 1
ShortName: Q1

Answer Value Pairings
Answer A | 1
Answer B | 2
Answer C | 3

When I place all three parameters in my email $(Q1), $(Q1_Text), $(Q1_FullResults), I only see the value, there is no Text, or FullResults.  In other words I see a 1,2, or 3 (not very human friendly) and nothing else.

I have tried setting the question to pass values to all three variables with no luck. Am I missing a setting somewhere? I do not think these are supposed to be empty based on pg 152 of the Users Guide.

I am using v3.4-50 trial version on DNN 6.0.2

Chad,

Yes, it does this with all of these question types.  It also does this whether or not they are sql driven or manual.  I created a fairly dynamic form with most questions being sql driven.  After hours of research and trying to get the _Text parameter to work, I took a step back.  I created a new form on a new page with one question, the exact one I posted above.  Just to be safe  I manually entered the options. Sure enough the _Text parameter is empty.

FYI, I installed the trial version on my development PC a few days ago, and then on my production server this morning, and exported/imported my forms from the PC to the server.  The empty _Text parameters appear on both installations.

Steve

Hi,

Sorry to be a pain, but I need to know if this feature of TEXT and FULLRESULTS parameters works correctly in the paid version.  I am up against a deadline and if it works in the paid version I will make the purchase; but if it does not, I don’t want to spend the money.

I have although come up with a partial work around, which is to create a hidden field for each question that I need text values for (which is almost all). Then create Default Value question events that are SQL driven to pull the names from the database, and places them in default value of the hidden field. This however generates a postback every time the user selects a question. I have not figured out how to do this with client side events yet; but even if I did, how would I handle Checkbox Lists?  I am sure there is probably a way, but this seams like way to much work for something that is supposed to be built-in to the module.

Getting Somewhere!

I noticed that help text was not popping up, so I un-checked   “Disable AJAX within module configuration” for the form, and now both the TEXT and FULLRESULTS parameters are working in the email.  Out of curiosity, I then disabled ajax, and the parameters still work fine in the emails.

Now can anyone tell me how to pass these parameters to a second form?

On a side note, when I would make a change to the email form completion event, those changes were not getting saved unless I switched from Rich Text Editor to Basic Text Box.