Limiting checkbox selection not working when minified

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Tagged: Content-submission forms, Toolset Forms

This topic contains 2 replies, has 2 voices.

Last updated by Tom Gonzales 5 years, 7 months ago.

Assisted by: Christian Cox.

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April 16, 2019 at 4:50 pm #1231727

Tom Gonzales

I am trying to: add a form to post to a custom post type, and in the form I want to limit the about of categories they can select within the form. I can get it to work when I unminify the page - hidden link

Link to a page where the issue can be seen: hidden link

I expected to see: only allow up to 3 checkboxes selected in the section titled Categories. When the page is minified, it doesn't work, but when I select to unminify the page, it does. Where is the JS I added to the form stored so maybe I can just remove that from being minified when the page loads?

Instead, I got: JS added to form to limit the number of categories checked doesn't work when page is minified.

April 16, 2019 at 9:29 pm #1231898

Christian Cox

Hi, the JavaScript you add to a Form editor is actually injected into the page markup, so there's not a specific file you can exclude from minification. In general, we recommend you do not attempt to minify or obfuscate any Toolset code, as it could have unexpected results.

April 18, 2019 at 5:35 pm #1232963

Tom Gonzales

Hi Chris - Since minifying CSS and JS files, I make it a point to check all pages to make sure things are still working properly, and this was the first instance of something not working the way it should. But the tool I'm using for minification (Hummingbird) allows me to unminify specific pages as needed using '?avoid-minify=true' at the end of the page URL. So I just set up a redirect to the original page URL with the added browser instructions and it's working fine now.

Thanks for your help!