Extends Form Reform with form handler macros. Provides a dashboard page at System & Settings > Form Reform > Form Reform Macros to manage macros, and a Macro form handler to run macros within a form handler pipeline.
Use macros to:
Suppose you have some complex validation requirements common to more than one form. Perhaps the usual input validation and spam detection is then followed by a Condition If .. Condition End sequence that validates a relationship between inputs and uses Set Error to set one or more errors, or a list of Set Error Conditional handlers.
Such a sequence could be saved into a macro and then inserted where you need it at the start of relevant submit pipelines with a single Macro form handler.
On this site we have a smaller implementation of such a use of Form Reform Macro on Example - Multi Step Forms. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the Macro $>_ in the example pipelines and use the Developer Analysis button to see the Form Reform Developer validation report.
A common form handling pattern is to send an acknowledgment email to the visitor, then send a notification email to one or more staff depending on form data. Such a pipeline can easily be configured by combining email and condition form handlers.
Configuring that sequence in a macro enables it to be easily slotted in across multiple forms.
Getting really advanced, perhaps you have a particularly long or complex sequence of form handling in mind. Long sequences of handlers can result in long processing time, so your first thought on a solution is a custom form handler.
Before getting involved in building a custom form handler to implement such a requirement, one or more macros could be configured and combined to prototype it. This will enable the overall logic to be tested and demonstrated to your customer or users, overall timing to be evaluated, and development work be targeted where needed.
All {{data_values}} are global within the form handling pipeline, so can be used and set within macros.
A exception and special case is the {{macro}} placeholder. {{macro}} placeholder values are defined when configuring the macro handler for the pipeline and are available for use in the subsequent handlers within the macro. These {{macro}} placeholders are unique to the specific call to the macro. At the end of the macro, {{macro}} placeholders are reset.
In theory, Form Reform Macros could have been part of the main Form Reform package. However this is a pretty complicated form input and Form Reform is already big, so making this a separate addon helps prevent Form Reform from growing bigger. The roadmap has more than enough ideas that will need to be part of the main Form Reform package and necessitate growth.
Extends Form Reform with form handler macros. Provides a new dashboard page at System & Settings > Form Reform > Form Reform Macros to manage macros, and form handlers to run macros.
ConcreteCMS Marketplace v9.0.0
/dashboard/system/form_reform/macro
Extends Form Reform with form handler macros. Provides a new dashboard page at System & Settings > Form Reform > Form Reform Macros to manage macros, and form handlers to run macros.
Reform the way forms are built. Build a form out of blocks. Take control of how form submissions are processed and how the submitted data is stored. Easy to extend. Easy to reconfigure. Tangible data. Easy to add your own integrations.
ConcreteCMS Marketplace v9.4.0
/dashboard/system/form_reform
Reform the way forms are built. Build a form out of blocks. Take control of how form submissions are processed and how the submitted data is stored. Easy to extend. Easy to reconfigure. Tangible data. Easy to add your own integrations.
/dashboard/system/form_reform/plugin_list
Plugins for Form Handlers.
/dashboard/system/form_reform/form_reform_blocks
Blocks for Form Reform.
/dashboard/system/form_reform/global_settings
Edit global settings and defaults for Form Reform Submission.
/dashboard/reports/form_reform
Reform the way forms are built. Build a form out of blocks. Take control of how form submissions are processed and how the submitted data is stored. Easy to extend. Easy to reconfigure. Tangible data. Easy to add your own integrations.
/dashboard/reports/form_reform/form_reform_default
Default storage for Form Reform submissions.
/dashboard/system/form_reform/advanced_config
Advanced Configuration for Form Reform including adapting styles for non-Bootstrap 5 themes.
List and display form submissions from Form Reform.
ConcreteCMS Marketplace v9.1.8
/dashboard/reports/form_reform/form_reform_report
Report generator for default Form Reform submissions.
Not just Form Reform and not just UTM! Capture and hold incoming UTM (or other) tags and make the tag values available to Form Reform and/or Conditional Redirect as {{place_holders}}. You don't need Form Reform to use this.
ConcreteCMS Marketplace v9.0.3
/dashboard/system/form_reform/utm
Redirects to UTM Configuration in SEO settings.
/dashboard/system/seo/utm
Capture and hold incoming UTM (or other) tags and make the tag values available to Form Reform as {{place_holders}}. Also integrates with Conditional Redirect. You don't need Form Reform to use this!
Save submitted forms to Express objects and user attributes. Add and remove users from groups.
ConcreteCMS Marketplace v9.0.18
Form Reform Image Picker provides an image picking input block for Form Reform. The Image Picker Input is preconfigured to connect to most Omni Gallery gallery and slider display widgets, the core gallery block, and thumbnail showing templates for the core page list block. Advanced settings allow the Image Picker Input to be configured to pick images from other galleries and sliders.
ConcreteCMS Marketplace v9.0.4
Form Reform Data Picker provides data picking input blocks for Form Reform. The Table Picker Input is preconfigured to connect to Universal Content Puller table display widgets. Advanced settings allow the Table Picker Input to be configured to pick data from other HTML tables.
ConcreteCMS Marketplace v9.0.4
Form handlers for querying Microsoft Dynamics, forwarding and updating form data to Microsoft Dynamics.
Extends Form Reform with form handler macros. Provides a new dashboard page at System & Settings > Form Reform > Form Reform Macros to manage macros, and form handlers to run macros.
ConcreteCMS Marketplace v9.0.0
/dashboard/system/form_reform/macro
Extends Form Reform with form handler macros. Provides a new dashboard page at System & Settings > Form Reform > Form Reform Macros to manage macros, and form handlers to run macros.
A growing suite of resources to assist those developing blocks, handlers and more complex forms for Form Reform.
ConcreteCMS Marketplace v9.0.14
/dashboard/system/form_reform/plugin_dialogue_explorer
A reference copy of all plugin dialogues. They won't save and may only partially work. Just here for browsing.
/dashboard/system/form_reform/block_dialogue_explorer
A reference copy of all form input block dialogues. They won't save and may only partially work. Just here for browsing.
/dashboard/system/form_reform/find_my_forms
Locates Form Reform forms and the pages they are on.
If you need a specialized template or a custom input element, you can design new templates or new block types for form elements as you would any block type.
Blocks are easy for third party addition or extension. Block templates and are the first thing any Concrete CMS developer learns to code. They are one of the easiest things to code. The underlying mechanisms are well established and reliable.
Form handlers are built about the same extensible plugin system as many of my other addons (Universal Content Puller, Omni Gallery, Extreme Clean ...).
The whole system is aimed at easy extension within Form Reform, by third party addons, by agencies and by site building developers.
Handlers can be easily added to do whatever you want with the form data.
Saving form data with Form Reform is simply a handler in the processing pipeline. You can save to multiple locations or just one location.
If you need to save data elsewhere, such as to a dedicated table, a table provided through another addon, to another database, send it to an API, forward it to another server, or anywhere you can imagine, you can adapt or develop a form handler to do so.
The complexity of the code depends on where you are saving or sending the data, but wrapping that into a form handler plugin for Form Reform is straight forward.
The Form Reform handler plugin system is designed for easy extension.
Reform the way forms are built. Build a form out of blocks. Take control of how form submissions are processed and how the submitted data is stored. Easy to extend. Easy to reconfigure. Tangible data. Easy to add your own integrations.
List and display form submissions from Form Reform.
Not just Form Reform and not just UTM! Capture and hold incoming UTM (or other) tags and make the tag values available to Form Reform and/or Conditional Redirect as {{place_holders}}. You don't need Form Reform to use this.
Form handlers for querying Microsoft Dynamics, forwarding and updating form data to Microsoft Dynamics.
A suite of advanced image capture and upload tools. Enhanced drag and drop file uploading. Make screengrabs from within Concrete CMS. Capture images directly from device webcams. Edit images before uploading.
Save submitted forms to Express objects and user attributes. Add and remove users from groups.
Form Reform Image Picker provides an image picking input block for Form Reform. The Image Picker Input is preconfigured to connect to most Omni Gallery gallery and slider display widgets, the core gallery block, and thumbnail showing templates for the core page list block. Advanced settings allow the Image Picker Input to be configured to pick images from other galleries and sliders.
Form Reform Data Picker provides data picking input blocks for Form Reform. The Table Picker Input is preconfigured to connect to Universal Content Puller table display widgets. Advanced settings allow the Table Picker Input to be configured to pick data from other HTML tables.
Extends Form Reform with form handler macros. Provides a new dashboard page at System & Settings > Form Reform > Form Reform Macros to manage macros, and form handlers to run macros.
A growing suite of resources to assist those developing blocks, handlers and more complex forms for Form Reform.
While you may have plans to implement some much more complex forms using Form Reform, we strongly recommend you start with a simple form such as our contact form example in order to review the basic principles of using Form Reform before you move onto anything bigger.