Dymior.Forms.Core 1.0.1-alpha

Dymior Forms Plugin For Umbraco CMS

With the Dymior Forms Plugin, web form creation becomes a seamless and efficient process. This versatile plugin empowers users to design and deploy a wide variety of web forms with remarkable speed and intelligence. Whether you're a web developer, marketer, or business owner, Dymior Forms simplifies the task of gathering data and interacting with your audience.

Dymior Forms is designed to streamline the entire form-building experience. Its user-friendly interface and intuitive features make it accessible to users of all skill levels. From simple contact forms to complex surveys and registration pages, this plugin offers a comprehensive range of customization options.

One of the standout features of Dymior Forms is its responsiveness. It ensures that your forms not only look great on desktop screens but also adapt seamlessly to mobile devices, providing an optimal user experience across different platforms. This is crucial in today's mobile-driven world, where responsive design is a fundamental aspect of online success.

The intelligence of Dymior Forms is evident in its ability to automate and optimize various aspects of form management. You can set up autoresponders to engage with form submitters and integrate the collected data directly into your database.

In summary, the Dymior Forms Plugin is a powerful tool that empowers users to create and manage web forms efficiently and effectively. Its ease of use, adaptability, and automation capabilities make it an essential addition to any web development toolkit, helping businesses and website owners enhance their online interactions and streamline data collection.

Features

The Dymior Forms plugin offers the following fields and their capabilities:

Form

• Ability to create simple forms.

• Responsive design for displaying forms on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices using drag and drop functionality.

• Field validation during input or upon form submission.

• Integration of Google reCAPTCHA to prevent bot submissions.

• Capability to embed icon fonts and CSS URLs.

• Ability to embed CSS files or add CSS directly to form fields in the admin panel.

• Easy modification of form styles through CSS variable adjustments.

• Rendering that respects screen size or container size.

• Option to take forms offline when user input is not required, with customizable offline messages in the admin panel.

• Ability to hide or disable fields upon form submission.

• Customization of success and failure messages after submission.

• Option to copy and move forms along with their fields to another node.

• Ability to copy and move individual fields along with their subfields to another node.

• Display of submissions in a grid format in the admin panel, with date range filters and CSV export capability.

Wizard

• Capability to create wizard-style forms.

• Field validation during input or upon form submission.

• Integration of Google reCAPTCHA to prevent bot submissions.

• Ability to embed icon fonts and CSS URLs.

• Ability to embed CSS files or add CSS directly to form fields in the admin panel.

• Easy modification of form styles through CSS variable adjustments.

• Rendering that respects screen size or container size.

• Option to take forms offline when user input is not required, with customizable offline messages in the admin panel.

• Ability to hide or disable fields upon form submission.

• Customization of success and failure messages after submission.

• In wizard forms, options to position step tabs at the top, bottom, left, or right.

• Ability to copy and move wizard forms and their fields to another node.

• Display of submissions in a grid format in the admin panel, with date range filters and CSV export capability.

Step

A step node can contain wizard forms and allows for responsive design for display on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices using drag and drop.

Folder

This field provides a method for organizing related forms within a structured hierarchy. While it does not directly affect individual form functionality, it allows systematic management and categorization based on specific criteria such as project, department, or topic.

Textbox Field

• Editing capabilities for label, help text, placeholder text, input prefix, input suffix, and autocomplete suggestions.

• Validation options for maximum length, required fields, and patterns, along with customizable failure messages.

• Extension of validation capabilities by implementing specific interface inheritance, with guidance provided in the info tab of the textbox field.

• Option to determine whether to save data to the database.

Email Field

• Editing capabilities for label, help text, placeholder text, input prefix, input suffix, and autocomplete suggestions.

• Validation options for maximum length, required fields, email format, and customizable failure messages.

• Extension of validation capabilities by implementing specific interface inheritance, with guidance provided in the info tab of the email field.

• Option to determine whether to save data to the database.

HTML Field

• This field does not collect user input. The administrator can input HTML content to display within the form.

Date & Time Field

• Editing capabilities for label, help text, input prefix, input suffix, and autocomplete suggestions.

• Configuration for date with time, date only, or time only.

• Minimum/maximum validation settings.

• Initial and final time settings, with adjustable step intervals for dropdowns.

• Date format adheres to the site's current culture.

• Option to determine whether to save data to the database.

• Extension of validation capabilities by implementing specific interface inheritance, with guidance provided in the info tab of the date & time field.

Textarea Field

• Editing capabilities for label, help text, placeholder text, and autocomplete suggestions.

• Adjustable height settings in pixels.

• Validation options for maximum length and required fields, along with customizable failure messages.

• Extension of validation capabilities by implementing specific interface inheritance, with guidance provided in the info tab of the textarea field.

• Option to determine whether to save data to the database.

Dropdown Field

• Editing capabilities for label, help text, placeholder text, and autocomplete suggestions.

• Required validation and customizable failure messages.

• Options for user selection (all checkboxes/radios or at least one).

• Alignment settings for checkboxes/radios (left or right).

• Extension of validation capabilities by implementing specific interface inheritance, with guidance provided in the info tab of the dropdown field.

• Options for entering dropdown options via a user-friendly editor.

• Extension of the options list through specific interface inheritance, with guidance provided in the info tab.

Number Field

• Editing capabilities for label, help text, placeholder text, autocomplete suggestions, prefix, and suffix.

• Required, minimum/maximum value, and number validation options, with customizable failure messages.

• Adjustable decimal places.

• Option to determine whether to save data to the database.

• Number format adheres to the site's current culture.

• Extension of validation capabilities by implementing specific interface inheritance, with guidance provided in the info tab of the number field.

Checkbox List and Radio List Fields

• Editing capabilities for label and help text.

• Required validation and customizable failure messages.

• Configuration for user selection (all checkboxes/radios or at least one).

• Alignment settings for checkboxes/radios (left or right).

• Extension of validation capabilities by implementing specific interface inheritance, with guidance provided in the info tab of the checkbox/radio list fields.

• Option to determine whether to save data to the database.

• Options for entering checkbox/radio options via a user-friendly editor.

• Extension of the options list through specific interface inheritance, with guidance provided in the info tab.

File Upload Field

• Editing capabilities for label, upload button and help text.

• Required validation and customizable failure messages.

• Configure Allowed File types, maximum file size and maximum size of all files select.

• Option to determine whether to save data to the database.

• Option to specify whether the upload is a single file or allows multiple files.

Human Verification (ReCAPTCHA)

• Editing capabilities for label, help text, and customizable failure messages for reCAPTCHA validation.

• Configuration for visible or invisible reCAPTCHA types and associated keys.

Group

This field serves as a placeholder that can contain other fields with its own design. It is useful for grouping fields, such as for work experience entries. The group can include add and remove buttons as needed.

• Configuration for group name and introductory HTML text.

• Minimum and maximum entries settings with customizable error messages.

• Option to determine whether to save data to the database.

• Responsive design capabilities for group fields on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices using drag and drop.

Add and Remove Button

Administrators can add an add/remove button to a group field when users need to make repeated entries.

• Configuration for button name and help text.

Next and Back Buttons

Administrators can add next and back buttons to wizard forms, allowing users to navigate between steps.

Submit Button

This pertains to the submit button of the form, allowing administrators to customize text and help text.

Mail Action

Under the submit button node, administrators can add mail actions, enabling users to configure email notifications upon successful form submissions.

• Configuration options include subject, from email, from name, to email list, CC email list, BCC email list, attachment of user uploads, and message body.

• Administrators can use tokens from form fields, which will be replaced with actual values upon sending the email. Guidance for using tokens is available at the top of the admin page.

• Administrators can set the process to occur before or after form submission to the database. In the event of failure, an error message can be displayed, and subsequent actions can be canceled with customizable failure messages.

Custom Action

Developers can create a custom action by inheriting a specific interface, with instructions provided in the info tab of the field.

• Administrators can determine whether the process will execute before or after saving the form entry to the database. In case of failure, an error message can be displayed, and subsequent actions can be canceled with customizable failure messages.

Additional Information

Installation

The Dymior Forms plugin can be installed in Umbraco CMS using the following commands:

dotnet add package Dymior.Forms

dotnet add package Dymior.Forms.Core

During the installation process, three sample forms are included, each with different styles: Contact Form, CV/Resume Form, and Request a Quote Form.

Please ensure that the existing Umbraco installation is configured with the SMTP server and that the correct email addresses are entered in the mail action field.

Frameworks and Umbraco Versions

The plugin supports .NET 6, .NET 7, and .NET 8 for Umbraco versions 10, 11, 12, and 13.

Database Support

Dymior Forms is compatible with Microsoft SQL Server and SQLite.

How to Embed

Forms can be embedded on the site in three ways:

1. JavaScript Snippet: Use the JavaScript snippet for the form, which can be found in the Info tab.

2. Dymior Forms Macro: Utilize the "Dymior Forms Macro," which includes a Form Picker Editor and can be inserted into an HTML editor within the CMS.

3. Razor View Invocation: Call the form directly using @await Component.InvokeAsync("DymiorForm", new { FormId = formId }) within the necessary Razor view.

Please note that using the JavaScript snippet allows embedding on different sites (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, or CORS), provided the domains are registered under the license and cookie settings permit it.

License

The Dymior Forms plugin is a startup solution designed to enhance form management within your Umbraco CMS environment.

The license for the Dymior Forms plugin is priced at 200 euros per domain. Each production domain is permitted to have one test domain for testing purposes only.

To purchase a license, please contact us at dymiorforms@outlook.com.

The license includes updates for the plugin. Please note that a new license is required for each change in the major version.

Support and Feedback

If you encounter any issues with the Dymior Forms Plugin, please feel free to report them on our GitHub page. As a startup, we greatly value your feedback and are committed to improving the plugin based on user experiences.