This procedure describes how to save data from a form to a database table, using ChronoForms version 5.
Creating the data table
- Log into the Joomla! administrator page for your web site
- First, look up the Database Tables Prefix for your web site. This can be found in "System > Global Configuration" on the Server tab.
- Click on Components > ChronoForms5:
- Ignore the message "Your ChronoForms installation on webdevel.sas.rutgers.edu is NOT validated." Chronoforms will still work.
- In Forms Manager, check the box to the left of the form that you would like to configure to save data (see #1 below).
- Click the Create table button at the top (see #2 below).
- At the Create table page, replace the "#__" portion of the Table Name with the actual database table prefix for your web site (e.g. j17_ or j25_) See #1 below.
- (Optional) Clear the check boxes for any fields that you do not need to save into the database (for example, the "captcha" and Submit "button" fields). Do not unselect the "cf_id" field since it is the primary key! See #2 below.
- Click Save to the upper right (see #3 below).
Modify the form to save data to the new table
- In Forms Manager, click on the name of the form with the new table.
- Click the Setup button (see #1 below).
- Click the Data Save (11) link (see #2 below).
- Change Enabled to "Yes" (see #3 below).
- Select the newly created table name from the Table name dropdown menu (see #4 below).
- Click Save and Close (see #5 below).
Viewing the data
One the table contains some data from one or more form submissions, you can view it as follows:
- In Forms Manager, click the dropdown arrow in the Connected Tables column corresponding to the form with the new table (see #1 below).
- Select the new table from the dropdown menu (see #2 below).
- At the Data listing page, click the check box for any data record you would like to view (see #1 below).
- Click the View Record button to view the data in Joomla! (see #2 below).
- Click Backup table to export the entire form to a CSV file (see #3 below).
- Click Backup records to export only the selected records to a CSV file (see #4 below).
- Click Cancel when done viewing or backing up records (see #5 below).
