Collapse-o-matic & Contact Form 7

The problem mainly is that the shortcode when placed in the contact form editing page, just displays [expand title=”Add Customer #2″ id=”customer2″]

Not sure how to go about this.

Please make sure that the script is loading on every page. This can be set in the plugin settings. You might also need to use the roll-your-own method if the shortcode still does not render.

Let us know if we can help you further with either of those options.

Hey Baden, thx for the reply
I believe the script loads because when I put the shortcode on the page (under the form shortcode) I get the functionality of collapse-o-matic)

I’m not too sure either on how to set it up to grab all the fields I’m “hiding”. I did try some of the examples on the documentation page and I can’t get it to work for my case in which I’m dealing with 15+ elements to my fieldset.
What I’m “building” is simple in thought but proving rather tough for me to handle (I’m no expert but I’m not inexperienced). It’s a data upload in the form of txt fields, file uploads, checkboxes, radioboxes.. the works. So for a specific part of the form, there’s a chunk that I will duplicate and have collapsed by default to be expanded on a need basis, so if there’s no data, I’ll only be pulling the non-empty elements so i don’t end up with big emails of just blank records
Does that make sense?

Thanks again.
Fredo

Fredo,

Here is everything you need to know about getting Collapse-O-Matic and Contact Form 7 to work together.

Let us know if you get this issue resolved.

Hey Baden thank you so much for your answer.
I’ve gone ahead and got rid of the shortcode inside the form editing page, adapted the Roll-Your-Own method to my needs and voila! It works!
I’ve managed to have the expanded fieldset appear perfectly. One thing I did note is that once the trigger text is clicked, it disappears and I have no idea where it’s going, unlike the examples here

thank you very much once again, I’d love to share my usage of the plugin but since it’s a private page to our institution, that would be unwise for me. But I am planning to use it again so I will definitely post my own work ??

the only two ways that the trigger-text would disappear are:
a) you have a swap title defined as a blank space, or
b) the title is being hidden by a css definition.

ok, we just though of a third one:
c) plugin conflict. Do you have any other accordion plugins installed?

Hello again,
What’s weird is that now it’s no longer working…
I thought I had used the Roll-Your-Own method but I just went back to the form and noticed changes, the shortcode was added and the functionality lost.
I tried removing the shortcode, just keeping the span I had for the trigger and the div for the target and that too isn’t working just displays the trigger and the target with no dynamics.

As an answer to the 3 scenarios.
a) I have no swaptitle
b) I have not modified or added any CSS, so I’m not sure if stock WP has a style for my trigger
c) No other accordions installed

Just to make sure I understand correctly, I don’t need to have the shortcode inside the contact form if i’m using the roll-your-own, right?

So after some fiddling and going back on what I’ve done and what not, I had tried this

add_filter( 'wpcf7_form_elements', 'mycustom_wpcf7_form_elements' );

function mycustom_wpcf7_form_elements( $form ) {
$form = do_shortcode( $form );

return $form;
}

but did not notice it made any difference and I went back to my functions.php, removed the previous code and added this line

add_filter( 'wpcf7_form_elements', 'do_shortcode' );
which I grabbed from the same link you posted.
Back to my form, removed the span/div combo and replaced that with shortcode… and that worked… I believe this has “fixed” my issue
I’m not sure it’s the cleanest ways, maybe you could elaborate on that?

Thanks!

Looks like you got it sussed out. The only issue with ‘it not being the cleanest’ is that if you update your theme… you will loose the ‘hack’

That’s exactly it… so my question is would I be able to have the functions.php file call another php file with the “hack” in it
something along the lines of the require_once() function?

are you using a child theme, or have you hacked the theme directly?

No child theme… I wasn’t intending to make any mods to the installation nor have it update or anything like that for the time being… obviously if this will be handling more load than intended then I’ll create a child theme because as it is this is still a prototype.
Since it’s a small mod to the functions.php, I’ll make sure to save my behind before any updates or what not

Thanks much Baden

sounds good!
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