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Disable paging option

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  1. flyingtugboat
    Member

    I don't think this feature currently exists, but would be extremely helpful with the form I was working on.

    Due to the length of a multi-page form I was working on, I needed a way to quickly get to a specific page instead of having to fill out all of the required fields for any earlier pages. For example, I had a CSS styling bug with the date picker which was on page 5 of 7. Having to fill out 4 pages of form data is tedious and time consuming, especially when the bug is hard to diagnose and requires multiple attempts to fix (this one fortunately did not).

    In the future, unless this suggestion is implemented, I'll just not use paging until the form is otherwise perfect, but since I work interactively with clients on these forms it is best to show them the form with paging (some clients can't visualize what the difference is, they need to be shown), thus it still creates something of an issue.

    My recommendation is to add a 'disable' option to the multi-page properties so that people who are debugging aspects unrelated to paging can do so quickly.

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday December 19, 2011 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    We can look at how we can handle this in the future. It's tricky because validation occurs when you move from page to page. So if you try to jump to Page 5 and there are required fields on pages 1, 2, 3 and 4... this is going to trigger validation errors. So it's trickier than it sounds. But we can keep this in mind for when we implement features for developers to use to speed up development, etc.

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday December 19, 2011 | Permalink

  3. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    I wonder in the meantime if there is a bit of code you could add to your theme's functions.php to disable all validation, or disable making any field required, so you could quickly get to the page you needed to with the information you needed? Then you could remove that code when you are done debugging.

    Posted 13 years ago on Tuesday December 20, 2011 | Permalink