I am trying to put two questions on the same row, like following

 

company name :_____________________________
Firstname:__________ LastName:______________

 

so the length of firstname field and last name field should be the same as company name field,

 

How do I do that in DynamicForm3.0, I checked "Add field to same row as previous question" , but it looks following

 

 

company name :_________________
Firstname:__________                                   LastName:______________

 

How do I get lastname closer to firstname? .

Thanks

HI Richard, due to the column width of your cells, there's no way to achieve the look you want where Lastname is right next to Firstname cell because the CompanyName column width also takes precedence and will force the LastName field to appear to the right of it. However, you can make the LastName to appear somewhat closer by playing with the Label Cell Width under Module Configuration (making it smaller). Or you can change the CompanyName from a "long textbox" to a "short textbox"; that way, it's width will be the same as the firstname width. -- David

Hi Richard. Can you try changing the column span of Company Name to maybe 10? You'll find this under Look and Feel when you edit the field. Not sure if it will work but worth a try. Let us know what happens. Thanks! -- Candace

HI, I tried change the span of Company name, then it become this

Company Name :                              ______________________

Firstname :_________________ LastName: ______________

Hi Richard,

Our dev team is looking into this. We're getting ready to release a patch in the next 2 days (maybe today) but this will not be included yet. Maybe in the next release after this. Thanks!

Candace

Hello Candace,

I am also managing a Dynamic Forms module (ver. 3.0.10) on a DNN 5.1.0 site (using IE-8 as browser). I am having exactly the same "column" issue--most frustrating. Here are my thoughts.

I note that the column widths for the entire form created appear to depend on the width of the widest data field in the form as a whole. [Note here that all of my fields use the "Display label and field in same column" setting.] If I create a form with three fields ("A", "B", and "C"), where "A" is a Singleline TextBox field with a Column Span of 5 and a Field Width of 450, where "B" is in the following row (Combo Box field; Column Span = 1; Field Width = 118), and where "C" (Singleline TextBox field; Column Span = 1; Field Width = 80) is set to be in the same row as "B", I would expect that the second row would contain two fields and that both of these would be, inclusively, under the wide textboc field in the first row. However, this is not the case--here, "B" falls at the left margin as expected, but "C" is located in a column following the width set by field "A" even though it is in the same row.

I would suggest two possible solutions: (1) Allow users to opt (perhaps in Module Configuration) to have the columns in their form determined on a row-by-row basis depending on the number of fields in a row (i.e., allow each row to have column widths not determined by other rows in the form); or, (2) allow users to be able to divide their form into sections which may be independently formatted (i.e., give the users an "Insert Section Break" option when designing their form (similar to starting a new table). This might add more flexibility and resolve the issue presented here.

If I am mistaken in my assessment (I am fairly new to uing Dynamic Forms), please let me know--I am happy to learn something new...

If requested, I'd be happy to send to Development a document showing screen shot illustrations of the problems I have encountered and the steps I have attempted (so far unsuccessful) to overcome the issue.

With thanks, Peter

I have discovered this issue recently and reported it to David. I was using a checkbox group that I wanted to span across horizontally but it threw off all of the other controls (textboxes etc.) and made the page ugly.

I like Peter's suggestion of making the rows independent of each other in terms of column widths.

Hope to see this change soon.

HI Stu, if you want to span the checkbox horizontally across without throwing the rest of the fields, specify a column span of 10 on the checkbox group and also "Display label on same column as text" under Question Look / Feel. -- David

Yes, you are correct David. I figured out how to use the column span and 'same column' settings to accomplish the desired look.

So, I retract my prior statement. Seems the only drawback would be if you didn't want to use the 'same column' option. But, it is a small price to pay and this really is a great product, so no complaints here!