How to use CreateFormEntry? - Sitefinity - General Discussions

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Posted by Community Admin on 17-Mar-2011 00:00

What is the "entryType" string parameter it asks for when creating form entries programmatically?

FormsManager.GetManager().CreateFormEntry(string entryType)

Posted by Community Admin on 17-Mar-2011 00:00

Hi Basem,

Generally this is the form type

Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicTypes.Model.sf_myformname

var manager = FormsManager.GetManager();
FormEntry entry = manager.CreateFormEntry(String.Format("0.1", manager.Provider.FormsNamespace, this.FormData.Name));

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Ivan Dimitrov
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Posted by Community Admin on 17-Mar-2011 00:00

Thanks but I'm still having trouble coming up with a sample though.. how do I add the values to "entry" then saving the response to the form. Can you take a step or two further please?

Posted by Community Admin on 17-Mar-2011 00:00

I used reflector to get some more hints from:
Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Forms.Web.UI.FormControl

Here is a custom extension I had to create to add entry items to the form. Now I can do this:

var manager = FormsManager.GetManager();

var form = manager.GetFormByName("sf_testform");

//COLLECT INPUT VALUES

Dictionary<string, string> inputs = new Dictionary<string, string>();

inputs.Add("FormTextBox_C008", "test1");

//STORE INPUTS

form.SaveEntry(inputs);

Seems to work, but still trying to figure out how to handle multiple answer items like checkboxes. This is what I did to extend the API which I hope helps someone (let me know if anyone notices anything wrong here):

public static void SaveEntry(this FormDescription form, IDictionary<string, string> inputs)

FormsManager manager = FormsManager.GetManager();

FormEntry entry = manager.CreateFormEntry(form.EntriesTypeName);

//ADD ALL INPUT VALUES

foreach (var item in inputs)

entry.SetValue(item.Key, item.Value);

//SAVE USER RELATED INFO

HttpContext context = HttpContext.Current;

if (context != null)

entry.IpAddress = context.Request.UserHostAddress;

entry.UserId = SecurityManager.GetCurrentUser().UserId;

//SAVE LANGUAGE FOR MULTI-LINGUAL SUPPORT

if (AppSettings.CurrentSettings.Multilingual)

entry.Language = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.Name;

//UPDATE IDENTIFICATION AND TRACKING

form.FormEntriesSeed = form.FormEntriesSeed + 1L;

entry.ReferralCode = form.FormEntriesSeed.ToString();

entry.SubmittedOn = System.DateTime.UtcNow;

//SAVE TO STORAGE

manager.SaveChanges();

Thanks!

Posted by Community Admin on 27-May-2011 00:00

@Basem

Thank you very much for the provided code. This is exactly what I was looking for.

Best wishes

Michael

Posted by Community Admin on 11-Nov-2011 00:00

Very thanks Basem.

It was very helpful for me, too.

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