I found that using Nintex formatting rules to Hide controls in a repeating section caused the controls to render incorrectly in the section when the controls transitioned from hidden to visible. And, guess what, they followed Will’s tip of sharing existing rules! New Pro Tip: Why do my repeating section controls jump around? This community post Solved: Re: Nintex Forms rules not working – Nintex Community was the solution. Tip: I had a problem in my form where certain rules were not working as expected. One mistake I’ve seen made with rules is that people will re-create the same rule for each individual control on the form.” We use formatting rules to hide or show certain sections based on who the user is or their answer to another field on the form we use validation rules to make fields required sometimes conditionally. Will said, “With Nintex Forms, you can create two types of rules: formatting and validation. The trick I used (thanks Caroline Sosebee) is to select the control with the mouse and “wiggle it”, i.e., move it slightly within the panel and verify the background of the panel turns the “blue color”, indicating that your control is inside the panel. If you need to add a new control to an existing panel, make sure your new control is contained entirely within the panel.Otherwise, you may accidentally select just the last control in the panel, and not the entire panel, when preparing to move the fields on the form. This makes it a bit easier to select the control itself. I always leave a few pixels between the bottom of the panel and the bottom of the last control in the panel.It is so much easier to layout your form when using panels to group controls! It can really speed things up should you need it.” Will said “With panels, if you ever find yourself needing to shift things around, you can select the panel and drag it around, moving all of the associated controls within it at once. I usually incremented the height by 200 pixels to provide enough space. Tip: The trick I used was to use the form settings to increase the canvas height (in pixels) to give me room to move existing fields down on the page. So true! Adding a field in the “middle” of your perfectly laid out input form is a bit tedious. You’ll have to make room for it by shifting the other 95 rows down enough to fit in the missing one.” You’ll spend an hour or so shifting labels and text fields around to your liking, just to realize that you left out a must-have input that belongs in the fifth row of your 100-field input form. Will said, “Easily, the most cumbersome part of the Nintex forms UI is the tedium of lining up your controls. I have a couple more tips to add to the list… Plan Ahead with Mockups Here we are, over 5 years later, Will’s tips came in handy as I recently completed a project that used Nintex Forms 2016 (version 4.3.3.0). In June 2016 ThreeWill Senior Software Engineer Will Holland wrote an article “Nintex Forms Pro-Tips” (see: ).
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