[Resolved] Unable to customise post relationship form

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[Greig Neilson]

I am trying to modify the content of a post relationship form. I would like to change the label on one of the form fields and modify the placeholder content in the select menu.

I would also like to hide the second field in the relationship as there is no point displaying it given that my form is displayed on the parent post.

Attempting to make any change to the form content in the Form Editor panel or the in the Messages panel results in everything between the [cred-relationship-form-container] tags being deleted. This looks like a bug. I am using Expert Mode on the form.

New threads created by Minesh and linked to this one are listed below:

https://toolset.com/forums/topic/split-unable-to-customise-post-relationship-form-change-the-select2-placeholder-in-relationship-form/

[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

I would like to change the label on one of the form fields and modify the placeholder content in the select menu.
==> Which field label you would like to change? Can you share problem URL where you added the form as well as access details.

I would also like to hide the second field in the relationship as there is no point displaying it given that my form is displayed on the parent post.
=> I think that field is required as it will automatically selected the parent option but I will check if we can remove that.

Attempting to make any change to the form content in the Form Editor panel or the in the Messages panel results in everything between the [cred-relationship-form-container] tags being deleted. This looks like a bug. I am using Expert Mode on the form.
==> I do not able to reproduce this issue as I can see we already set a message that says:

Changes that you make in the HTML editor will be lost if you switch back to the Visual editor.

Can you please share access details and problem URL.

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[Minesh]

1. I would like to change the label on Routes to read "Please select a route." I also want to customise the "search for a post" to "search for a route"
===> I've split the ticket and answered your query there.
- https://toolset.com/forums/topic/split-unable-to-customise-post-relationship-form-change-the-select2-placeholder-in-relationship-form/

2. This form is displayed within a parent post. There's no point having the student's name here as it can't be changed anyway. It would be great to apply a class to hide it, but, as mentioned above, when I try and edit the HTML everything disappears from the form.
===> Yes, thank you. I think this is a good feature request. You can submit the feature request using the following form:
- https://toolset.com/home/contact-us/suggest-a-new-feature-for-toolset/

If you still need assistance with this - would you mind to create a new ticket and assign it to me?

3. I appreciate your reference to the warning message but it does not apply here. When I created the form I was in Expert mode. I did not try and change to Visual mode. (I don't like Visual mode at all - it erases any customisations I have made to my forms so I don't use it)
===> Yes - I confirm this bug and I reported to our next level support for further debugging. Please hold on for further updates.

[Minesh]

We have published the errata for this issue. Could you please follow the instruction given with the following link and try to resolve your issue.
=> https://toolset.com/errata/changes-done-using-expert-mode-with-post-relationship-forms-are-not-saved/

The fix will be hopefully shipped early next week with the next release of Toolset Froms plugin.

[Minesh]

Can you please confirm that relationship form issue is fixed.

[Greig Neilson]

Hi Minesh

I added a feature request re. #2 and Amir wrote to suggest that I hide the field using CSS.

I'm happy to try that, but I can't find any documentation on using the "Additional classnames" or "Additional inline styles" fields on the Visual Mode form.

[Luo Yang]

Hello,

For the question:
but I can't find any documentation on using the "Additional classnames" or "Additional inline styles" fields on the Visual Mode form

You can try these:
Edit the relationship form, find and edit the shortcode of "second field in the relationship", add attribute class='hidden' in it, like this:
[cred-relationship-role class='hidden' ...]

and in section "CSS Editor", add below CSS codes:

.hidden{
display:none;
}

And test again.

More help:
https://toolset.com/documentation/post-relationships/selecting-parent-posts-using-forms-create-child-items/#creating-forms-when-a-parent-post-is-preselected
screenshot:
hidden link

[Greig Neilson]

Your suggestion didn't work, Luo, but adding 'hidden' to the div class did:

<div class="form-group hidden">
<label>Students</label>
[cred-relationship-role role='child']
</div>

Many thanks 🙂