Multi Page Form

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Beyond my ability, so what I need is basically something based of the Extended Form add-on that will spread a long winded form out over several pages. It's an online employment application, and rather than making someone fill everything out on one page, I'd like to split it up and have it all submitted together as one record.

I'm not as interested in someone setting up each and every question in the application, I can probably handle that, just the workflow that captures and saves all the data.

Hoping someone out there has done something similar already, if so, give me a price and lets make it happen.

hursey013
 
Shotster replied on at Permalink Reply
Shotster
Instead of using separate pages, how about taking a client-side approach to implement the "sections" of the form UI - e.g. tabs, expandable headings, slide panels, etc. With slide panels, for instance, you could create a nice step-by-step flow for completing the form. That would allow you to simplify presentation of the content while keeping the form on a single page (more maintainable in my view). I think that would be a more contemporary and "cleaner" solution to the problem. There are tons of jQuery plugins from which to choose.

Just a suggestion...

-Steve
hursey013 replied on at Permalink Reply
hursey013
I thought about that, I just didnt know how intuitive it would be for people to know once they finish one section to expand the next one below it - you know? It would be cool if once they finished one field set the next appeared or something, but that would probably take some serious jquery action.

Anyways thanks for the suggestion, and I will probably wind up doing something along those lines - you have to see this application form though, its four pages long, tons of questions... its going to be difficult to make it look good.
Shotster replied on at Permalink Reply
Shotster
I think a "slide panel" approach might be a better choice so that the form doesn't just keep growing vertically. See here for one idea...

http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/scrollable/wizard.html...

-Steve
hursey013 replied on at Permalink Reply
hursey013
I see what you mean, I was thinking accordion for some reason - I'll check it out and see if I can get it working with the form block. Thanks again.