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How to populate a primary form field using lightbox form

  1. I have a form to customize a product. I have a lot of different customization/variations options and most can be easily handled with regular form fields. However, I have 2 fields that need an image, so I would like to have the user click a link that pops up a lightbox form where they can make a selection that has a radio button next to an image. Then the results of that are dynamically added to the base form. Is this possible? Which lightbox would be best suited for this?

    Thanks,
    Alisa

    Posted 11 years ago on Saturday June 23, 2012 | Permalink
  2. David Peralty

    I don't think this is currently possible as the form would either have to post back to the main form, causing it to reload or through JQuery, which I'm not expert at.

    Posted 11 years ago on Monday June 25, 2012 | Permalink
  3. I've been doing a lot of reading on the subject over the weekend. I do know that, under the Advanced tab, there's a check box for "Allow field to be populated dynamically". I did something similar years ago when I was a developer, so I know it's possible, but don't know if there's a way to do it with Gravity Forms and a lightbox. I'm hoping tomorrow when more people are "at work", I'll get an answer to my liking. The big problem is that this is all just a bit over my head, skills wise and I'm getting overwhelmed and frustrated. I created a plain html page today of the form. Plain as in, not built with wordpress but in a text editor. I just need to figure out how to get that form in a lightbox and how to get that lightbox to send the results to the base form. Hope it's doable.

    Thanks,
    Alisa

    Posted 11 years ago on Monday June 25, 2012 | Permalink
  4. After a lot of pondering on this topic, it seems to me that what I want to do is very very similar to a date picker where you click the date you want and that value goes back and populated the date field in your base form. The only difference is that I want to have images and radio buttons to make a selection, which in fact seems more simple than a date picker.

    Thanks,
    Alisa

    Posted 11 years ago on Monday June 25, 2012 | Permalink
  5. Alisa,

    Did you get this to work? I am hoping to do something similar....

    Angie

    Posted 11 years ago on Saturday June 30, 2012 | Permalink