May 2013

MachForm version 3.5 is now available for downloads on Members Area.

This version contain several new features, improvements and bugfixes!

What’s new in MachForm 3.5

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• Conditional Logic for Notification Emails
• Price Calculation using Quantity field
• Sales Tax Calculation
• Image Uploader on Theme Editor
• Custom Form Inactive Message

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Enhancements and Bugfixes

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• Updated pattern images on theme editor
• Added ZAR currency for Check/Cash payment/li>
• Allow 100 years in the past for date selection
• No longer using Google CDN for jQuery
• Prevent form’s theme caching when user is logged in
• Unpaid payment status shouldn’t be displayed within the email, to avoid confusions
• Bugfix: Deleted entries shouldn’t be checked for “unique” rule
• Bugfix: Selecting payment fields on column preferences caused error on entry manager
• Bugfix: When using PHP embed code and PayPal+review is enabled, the form incorrectly redirect to Stripe
• Bugfix: Unable to charge recurring payments when using Stripe
• Bugfix: Unable to use the same field multiple times to build a rule
• Bugfix: Embedded payment page doesn’t readjust the height properly upon errors
• Bugfix: Resuming a submission isn’t possible when unique-ip validation is being enabled
• Bugfix: Umlauts can’t be used properly to build logic
• Bugfix: Typo on Finnish translation for Date field
• Bugfix: Using 0 as keyword on logic for dropdown and multiple choice field doesn’t work properly
• Bugfix: When review is being enabled and ‘check’ is chosen as merchant, the form doesn’t redirect to success page correctly
• Bugfix: Image button of a theme on a form which has review enabled, is not being displayed correctly
• Bugfix: Duplicating a form doesn’t copy the whole logic conditions properly
• Bugfix: Skip logic to success page doesn’t work when a form has payment enabled and review turned off
• Bugfix: When trial being enabled for Stripe’s recurring payment, the trial amount should be displayed into Total amount instead
• Bugfix: When a field is being hidden due to conditional logic, it shouldn’t be displayed within the review page and email
• Bugfix: Typo with YYYY on date field for Norwegian language
• Bugfix: Skip-page logic to payment page always redirect to Stripe payment page regardless of merchant being used
• Bugfix: A form with lot of skip-page logic functionality might not skipping into the correct page
• Bugfix: Mobile-friendly form is not being displayed when using PHP embed code
• Bugfix: When only shipping address being enabled, the ‘same shipping address’ checkbox on payment page should be hidden.
• Bugfix: A “required” matrix field triggers validation error message, even though it’s hidden due to logic
• Bugfix: When paypal and review page being enabled, and the price amount being entered by user is $0, the form generate error message
• Bugfix: When new option of checkbox, radio button or dropdown being added and the field has prices, it need to be populated within the payment settings page automatically
• Bugfix: Incorrect mime type for JPEG file
• Bugfix: Editing an entry with date limit is not possible when the maximum date has been selected
• Bugfix: Entries filter doesn’t work properly on empty/null values
• Bugfix: Logic bind issue with matrix field
• Bugfix: Editing an entry of a form that scheduled to inactive is not possible
• Bugfix: When the form is inactive, payment total shouldn’t be displayed at all
• Bugfix: Pagebreak field shouldn’t be displayed within review page
• Bugfix: Text/number/paragraph limit should display better message when range min is the same as range max

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How to Update

This update is FREE for all v3 owners.
As mentioned above, you can download it on Members Area.

For those still using older versions of MachForm (v1 or v2), you can Purchase an Upgrade License.

If you are currently using v3.4 or any v3.x, follow this upgrade instruction:
Upgrading MachForm 3.x to 3.5

If you are still using v2.x, follow this upgrade instruction:
Upgrading MachForm 2.x to 3.5

On our previous posts, we’ve covered two major features (conditional logic for notification emails and price calculation using quantity field) that will be coming into v3.5.

Now we would like to let you know several other improvements we’ve made for v3.5.

Sales Tax Calculation

You can now easily add sales tax charge into your form simply by entering the tax rate on your payment-setting page. Upon checkout, sales tax will automatically be added to the order total.

This feature is available for both Stripe and PayPal.

Image Uploader on Theme Editor

This is minor improvement but will save you lots of time!

Previously, to change the image of your form’s logo or background image, you need to upload the image somewhere else (using FTP or web file manager) and then paste the URL into the Theme Editor.

Now, you can upload the image directly from the Theme Editor 🙂 No more hassles and no more pain of opening another software just to upload an image!

Custom Form Inactive Message

Previously, when you disabled a form, it will simply display this message “This form is currently inactive” on all of your form.

On v3.5, you will be able to customize this message for each of your form. Very useful for forms such as event registration form, job application form, or any other form that is time-sensitive.

Personalized inactive message for each of your form would make it even more useful to your users and avoid confusions.

And that’s it! See you on Monday, May 13th 2013. We’ll be releasing v3.5.

Payments Integration is a functionality that already supported by MachForm since v3.0. It works great and let you easily create order forms.

However, it doesn’t support one important feature, you can’t add a quantity field to calculate the total price.

Within the upcoming update (v3.5) we’ve added the functionality to let you define the quantity field. Simply add a “Number” field into your form and turn on “Enable as Quantity field” option.

You will be able to select the target field for the calculation to be made. Each number field can be associated with any other price-enabled fields (Multiple Choice, Checkboxes, Drop Down, Price)

The total calculation will be displayed instantly as the user entered the quantity amount:

Neat eh? 🙂

Availability

This functionality is available within v3.5, which should be released next week (May 13th, 2013) and is a FREE update for all v3 owners!

On January (MachForm v3.4), we’ve introduced conditional logic to show/hide fields and skip pages. Today, I’m happy to let you know that the upcoming release of MachForm (v3.5) will support conditional logic to send notification emails! 🙂

This functionality actually already exist, using the Custom Hooks method, but it’s very limited and you need to manually edit a file. Which is a pain task to do.

Within the next update (v3.5) we’ve added a new panel within the Logic Builder to let you setup the rules to send emails, similar as setting up rules to show/hide fields or skip pages.

Using this new feature, you’ll be able to do the following tasks easily:

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• Send notification email to different person based on user choices
• Send notification email with different content based on user choices
• Send auto-responder email to customers with different messages based on their choices
• Only send notifications when certain conditions being met
• Dynamically customize the sender email address or name based on the conditions
• etc

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The possibilities are endless, since you will be able to add as many rules as you need and customize the whole aspect of the email (receiver, sender, subject, content) using as many conditions you can think of 🙂

Simple Setup

There is nothing really new to learn about, we’ve made the interface to be similar enough as the field/page logic builder. So you’ll be familiar already.

Simply create the conditions, set the destination email address, select the email template and you are all set.

You can use the Notification Email template, Confirmation Email template or a custom template specific for the rule.

Availability

This functionality is available within v3.5, which should be released before the end of this month (May) and is a FREE update for all v3 owners!