I am new to Dynamic Forms, and I am bloody from banging my head against the wall repeatedly. And I am seriously behind on my project.

I have been using the wizard to create my forms. After the wizard completes, everything is laid out perfectly. The Labels and Fields are arranged beautifully.

As soon as I go and edit any of the questions, then the edited question is padded in such a way that the field is not aligned anymore.

Let me give an example:

ORIGINAL LAYOUT FROM WIZARD:

First Name: ______________________________

Last Name:______________________________

Now, say I changed "First Name" to, say, "Your Name", here is what the layout looks like after saving the changes:

First Name:

                     ______________________________

Last Name:______________________________

It doesn't matter whether it's an input box, a combo, a date field, a simple radion button, whatever. The fields no longer align.

I've even used one of the sample xml files from the Beta site, and the problem persists.

I also noticed this while using the free trial, but I thought it was just because it was a free version.

Can anyone PLEASE help? I have gone through the Forums and read similar complaints, but I have not found any solution.

Thanks

Frustrated Forms-Expert-Wannabe

Hi Natty,

I'm sorry for all your frustration.  My first questions would be: 

1.  What Dynamic Forms version you're on,  and

2.  what DNN version do you have?  (You can check these under Host, Module Definition.)

I'll watch for your reply.  Thanks.

Candace

Thanks for the hints,

Yup, there is that scallywag "

" thingy right there in both the footer and the header section. Removed them, alignment issues fixed.

Who woulda thunk? Do you know how to remove them globally (perhaps from the DNN default?) instead of having to remember to do it one at a time?

Thanks again for your help.

We starting seeing this recently just with different FCK editors certain Rich Text Box's. Sometimes it would add it in there as 'null' and other times it would add in < P > tags. This is the first we have heard of this though.

For any users testing this, you must click on the 'Source' or 'Basic Textbox' to see this.

-Chad

Yes... This is my guess, check out this thread on the FCK Editor and DNN 4.9. Appears to be the same issue.

-Chad

Yes, I have 4.9.0 version of DNN. None of the workarounds is working, though.

Thanks, Chad.

How do I do the "Custom Editor" fix?

Hi,

Well I think that you can go into the custom editor options and change just this module instance to either start in basic mode or other features. Not sure specifically but its worth reviewing as there are many options in there. Please see screenshot, this icon is in the lower left of the editor. You might also consider changing this to Basic Textbox and I think this setting will stick the next time you go into make updates.

-Chad

I did one better

in Providers\HtmlEditorProviders\Fck\Custom\fckconfig.js, change the following lines:

FCKConfig.EnterMode = 'p' ; // p | div | br
FCKConfig.ShiftEnterMode = 'br' ; // p | div | br

to:

FCKConfig.EnterMode = 'br' ; // p | div | br
FCKConfig.ShiftEnterMode = 'p' ; // p | div | br

Save the file. clear browser cache (better to just close and reopen all opened browsers). Voila!

Now, on to saving the world from ...... whatever it is I'm saving it from

Thanks for the hack. Is there a permanent or officail fix for this? Going in and hacking the fck code every time there is an update isn't very appealing.

I am also unclear as to what the other side effects of doing this are. You have reversed the behaviour of these two modes on a global basis, and it isn't clear from this short message that it is the appropriate thing to do or is it tested to work globally.

Kevin

Hi Kevin,

I may have responded to another thread but basically, we're waiting for DNN 4.9.1 to be released which is supposed to resolve this issue.  Thanks!

I've had the same 'head banging deadline' experience as Natty and the first post in this string.

Thanks for the FCK editor tip. Wow, what a time saver. Having to remove the two instances on each edit of each field is a real time waster.

Very much appreciated. Atta' boy for sharing.

I have also suffered from this fck ed up issue. One thing that helps is in addition to the p to br change, you can also set

FCKConfig.FillEmptyBlocks = false ;

from true. This gets rid of the

issue as well.

Make sure to do it in fckconfig.js file in the custom folder as well.

The bad news is you have to remember to do this for all your installations every time you upgrade DNN. Until they 'fix it' which will never happen.

Thanks,

Will

I am having a similar problem with the Rich Text Editor - randomly they appear right justified and half the width of others on the page. Deleted, readding, deleting, readding seems to finally fix it. Having trouble convincing the team that this is the way to go if we get unexpected results.

DNN 4.5

DS-  bought it last week.

SAME problem here; and I tried the SQL script and it reports "Your query contains an error!" - no fix as a result.

Label cell is stuck at apparently 100px - looks terrible.  Link:

http://www.peachtreeaikikai.com/Hom...fault.aspx

DNN 4.9.1, DynReg 3.20.70

Can anyone ease my pain?  Thank you!!!

Mark

PS - I went thru and deleted all the headers and footers manually... no fix.  FEH!

Hi Mark,

Can you please tell me the exact module Dynamic Forms version you have (from Host, Module Definitions) and your current DNN version?  Thanks!

Candace