Form with conditional fields custom layout

You might want to take a look at Kentico's built-in forms module, which has a forms builder and a ton of options for each form field -- K9 forms documentation. The options include show-hide based on conditions, and every field offers the option of "has depending fields" and "depends on another field."

For instance, if you wanted to have a section for a separate billing address, you could set the separate billing as a checkbox set with "has depending fields" and then the address, city, etc. would be "depends on another field" and visibility would be a macro like SeparateBilling.Value=true.

Then on the page template, you can use the webpart for displaying forms or they can be inserted via the text editor.

Hi Emma

I'm already using the built-in forms module. And I'm also using the "has depending" and "depends on". But the issue I'm having is that I use a custom HTML layout, with custom divs. When you use the has depending and depends on functionality the rendered labels and input fields can be hidden BUT not the custom surrounding HTML.

So my problem is that I have all the div's in my custom HTML layout and I want to test some values there, unfortunately I was unable to hide the custom div's in my custom HTML layout surrounding the labels and input fields. I also tried the custom ASCX layout but that didn't go well either.

Now I managed to get it to work, but I had to use the content before and content after fields for each field in my form, which results in sometimes not closing a div because it's wrapped in a row or something (see my HTML above)

Isn't there an easier solution, a more customer friendly solution? Because if I have to tell the customer how HTML works (especially the content before and content after parts),well... you know :)

Have you tried using a macro for the HTML envelope content before and content after? For instance, the HTML content before could be a macro like {% if (testDiv.Value=true) {"<div>my div</div>"} |(identity)GlobalAdministrator%}

Hi Emma

I'm trying to avoid the content before and after fields. The customers usually don't have any "programming background", so they can't work with if-statements like that. They usually don't know HTML either. So that's why I was wondering if there was a more "customer friendly" solution available :) .

So are custom layouts for forms basically useless if the form has a visible condition?

Hi Wade

You need to be careful with your HTML structure & your CSS. In some cases the controls won't be rendered but some spacing is still left behind due to your HTML & CSS. And in my opinion, the custom form layout is lacking functionality. It should be easy to use and you shouldn't have to use macro's to show or hide div's, etc.