Warning when using New CF7 Validation Feature

Hi @awesiome,

could you explain what you did and how you noticed your mapping details disappeared?

I updated CF7 and clicked the link that said Validate all forms. Agter validating my forms sucessfully, I was redirected to the Contact form page that lists all contact forms and I was shown a message that says no errors were found. However, all the options provided by the post my cf7 plugin were gone. I couldn’t see anything relating to creating new maps, viewing exisiting map settings or ecen the settings that allow you to publish a form map or set it as a draft. There were just no more mapping settings at all but the forms were still being listed in a post-type manner. Unfortunately I did not take a screenshot but you could try validating some forms and see what happens. If the settings vanish then deactivating and reactivating your plugin will fix that.

ah, yes I understand now.

CF7 plugin uses its own custom table summary page. This plugin makes use of the WordPress core edit.php page to display the form table, it also hides the cf7 custom page.

Unfortunately CF7 was developed during the very early stages of WP and did not bother to update this aspect of the plugin. This means that is impossible to build on top of the plugin using std WP features. With the introduction of std WP table page (edit.php) it is not possible to add custom columns to the table.

When you ‘validate’ your forms, cf7 redirects you to its custom page… and hence all the extra columns introduced by this plugin disappear. Opening the ‘Contact’ page from the menu re-opens this plugins table summary page.

I will try to filter this in a subsequent release to make it more transparent.

Btw, have you tried my new CF7 plugin extension to design responsive grid-layout forms?

Thanks for the explanation. I figured the data was still around and nothing had actually been lost so I guessed reactivating might solve the problem. Nice to know exactly why though.

I have not tried out your new plugin. I didn’t know about it. I use a theme that makes it easy-ish to create table-like layouts. But I will definitely install your plugin and test it out and give you feedback and a rating. It will most likely be more intuitive than how I do it currently anyway.