I'm  having trouble creating a total and passing the result to Paypal, or anywhere else.

Here is the situation:  I have and event, and there are three checkboxes on the form.  What is checked determines the price charged for the event.  I have a hidden field named Total into which I want to put the total amount, and use that for sending the total to Paypal.  I have the initial value set in this field to 389.

I have the following code:

function CalcFormTotal() { 

var n;

n=389;

var re = document.getElementById('dnn_ctr498_DynamicForms_Responses_3f55602e-0a71-4482-978d-fc605f12963c');

var sc = document.getElementById('dnn_ctr498_DynamicForms_Responses_e36d3527-9b60-4071-ad99-4d8ed19dc2ac');

var st = document.getElementById('dnn_ctr498_DynamicForms_Responses_daa1ef7e-d3cf-4713-b1e6-59fb3a5ebf4b');

if( sc.checked) n=379;

if( st.checked) n=359

var tot = document.getElementById('dnn_ctr498_DynamicForms_Responses_006c46a3-baa1-4ed0-89bd-4b8a9b444151');

                tot.innerText = n;

         }

 

This is added as custom javascript.  I also added a call to this routine in the javascript section when the submit button is clicked.

 

All of this works just fine, except that the total isn't set up correctly.  

 

Actually, if I view the form in IE, this works correctly.  But, neither Firefox nor Chrome do this correctly.  It appears that these browsers don't support InnerText, or something.

 

Can someone help?

Hi Joe,

I did hear that InnerText won't work.  How about you use another hidden field that you call Amount.  You can say something like $(Total) = $(Amount) then use that to pass to PayPal insted?  Let us know how that works for you.  Thanks!

Candace

 

Thanks, Candace.

I think that I need a bit more help. How will I get a value into Amount?

Let me point you first to Demo #20 in our Form Demos.  You'll see for the Grand Total,  we have calculations for an innerHTML total but in addition, there is a GrandTotalHidden field which is used to pass the variable to PayPal. Thanks!

Candace

Thanks, Candace!

I got past that hurdle, now I have another one. I have three completion events, two emails and one redirection. The redirection works, but the emails are not being sent. It I turn off Paypal, then they do get sent.

I attached all three events to the successful completion of Paypal.

Any ideas?

Nice progress, Joe! 

Now, I'll point you to this blog on Completion Events and PayPal.   Most issues are fixed by one of the pointers here.  If the problem continues, please come back and give us details of your results.  Thanks!

Candace

Thanks. I can't make the Sandbox work, at least in terms of sending email. But, if I turn off the gateway, the emails get sent.

So, I was tempted to try the production Paypal, and that does work. The payment went through, and the emails get sent.

Now I have another problem: I want to edit the emails. I edited one and saved the event. But, the changes don't seem to have been made. Is this an error in Dynamic Forms, or is this something that I am doing?

There must have been some setting on your Sandbox that was causing the IPNs to not get sent.

Regarding editing emails.  There is a known issue with AJAX and the FCK Editor.  Can you please check in Module Configuration and make sure that AJAX is disabled then edit the email again?   If the changes still don't stick, edit the email event once more, but this time, before you hit update, switch the editor from rich-text to basic.  That should do the trick.  Thanks!

Candace

Thanks. I think that I'm almost done with this project!