FormIt: Confused about Check Boxes

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mmcgee Reply #1, 11 years, 2 months ago

MODx 2.3.5 | FormIt 2.2.7

I have a single check box. When checked, the email received contains the value of the checked item. But if not checked, the email contains the actual placeholder call, which is a bit confusing.

Question: is that the normal behavior for check boxes, or have I written my code incorrectly?

       <label>OPTIONAL: Do you want to be added to the mailing list?</label>
      <input id="checkbox1" type="checkbox" name="addMe[]" value="Yes. Add me to the list." [[!+fi. addMe:FormItIsChecked=`Yes. Add me to the list.`]]><label for="checkbox1">Yes!</label>

Initially, I had included [[!fi.error.addMe]] within the main lable, but this is not a required check box.

Is name="addMe[]" causing the email message to show the placeholder? Should name simply be "addMe" with no brackets, since I only have one item?

This question has been answered by rjohnson375. See the first response.

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mmcgee Reply #2, 11 years, 2 months ago

This is what I have in my email chunk

p>Add to List?: [[+addMe]]</p>

If checked, the email message contains
Add to List?: Yes!

If not checked, then the email message contains
Add to List?: [[+addMe]]

Having the placeholder there is confusing. If the checkbox is not checked, shouldn't the email message just contain nothing?
Add to List?:

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rjohnson375 Reply #3, 11 years, 2 months ago

I had a similar issue, this is what I did (using your code as an example):

<label>OPTIONAL: Do you want to be added to the mailing list?</label>
<input type="hidden" name="addMe[]" value="" />
<input id="checkbox1" type="checkbox" name="addMe[]" value="Yes. Add me to the list." [[!+fi.addMe:FormItIsChecked=`Yes. Add me to the list.`]]><label for="checkbox1">Yes!</label>

Edit: I also removed the space in "fi.addMe" from your code

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mmcgee Reply #4, 11 years, 2 months ago

Thank you very much for the feedback. Your suggestion works! [ed. note: mmcgee last edited this post 11 years, 2 months ago.]

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