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Forms and editable form-reactions with Items? How?

Peter Leleulya
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Currently on a client website we have forms, created with DW Forms.
Our client wants to alter a customer form-post in the CMS.
Now they can only view them and export them for as far as I know (in a horrible form post overview page).
An edit modus on this overview page is what I actually want.

Why would they want such a feature? For example:
A site visitor wants to know what a service will cost and does a quotation/offer request.
The site visitor fills in the form.
Our client handles the request.
If the offer request becomes an actual order our customer wants to be able to go to the cms, open the form posted by the site visitor and add some additional data, e.g. the value of the order.
When the exports are being made of the form posts, this additional information will be included then …

I've been informed by Kristain Kirkholt that DW Items are the way to solve this, but I have no clue how to do this.
I need a form on the website, editable form responses in the backend which can be exported.

Does anyone have any sample code to help me in the right direction and/or can explain to me step by step how to achieve this goal?

Thanks in advance !


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Vladimir
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Hi Peter,

I suppose Kristain meant to use Item creator module.
So as I see steps to achive the goal:
1) Create an item with all desired fields of  quotation/offer request (e.g. OfferItem).
2) Create not published page to store created requests ( e.g. Customer requests)
3) Create a page with ItemCreator module. Main settings for module - are item type(1) and page(2) where create new items(request) as paragraphs

Finally requests may be viewed/changed by administrator in backend (page from step 2), Item data stored in table ItemType_OfferItem.

Best regards,

Vladimir

 
Peter Leleulya
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Thanks Vladimir,

I'm going to try what you recommended.

Peter.
 

 

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