4 columns for checkboxes?

  • Resolved windstyles

    (@windstyles)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    I am in need of a field that allows for our scholarship applicants to note what activities they did throughout high school and what years they did those activities. For example:

    The headers would be:
    Activity Name 9th 10th 11th 12th

    Obviously, we cannot get this to work as is, because it only allows for 3 columns.

    And then we’d need 3 rows for them to enter the above info. It is possible that some activities were done in more than one year of school, so we’d like them to be able to select multiple grades that go with that activity. (Hope this makes sense).

    So, we either need a way to put the check boxes into 4 columns, or a dropdown that accepts multiple answers… Thinking having more than 3 columns in the form is the best/easiest way.

    Can anyone provide info on how to allow for more than the standard 3 columns, please?

    Thank you!!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/visual-form-builder/

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  • Thread Starter windstyles

    (@windstyles)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Anyone have any suggestions? Please?

    Thanks!

    RobertesTX

    (@robertestx)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,
    You mentioned you needed 3 rows of four columns. Is it possible to do 4 rows of 3 columns? I realize you are using the high school grades of which there are four, but is there another way to categorize to allow you to apply a different column count? I have played with the Pro version and there just wasn’t any way on the GUI side to make that happen that I saw. But then again, I”m not a developer, I’m a “struggler”

    It’s probably not much help and probably nothing you haven’t considered, but I thought I would try.

    Just curious – assuming Visual Form Builder is generating PHP in the back end while we make form changes on the front end, if that’s the case, do you have a resource that could manually override that?
    Again, this is probably something you have thought of…

    I still like this plugin. A lot, but the rest of the plugin community seems bent on integrating with Gravity, Contact Form 7 and another. It’s still one of the most straight forward forms engines though.

    Good luck!

    Thread Starter windstyles

    (@windstyles)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Thank you, RobertesTX for your help! I do appreciate your time and suggestions.

    I ended up going with the Fast Secure Contact Form plugin and it did everything I needed it to!

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