Advanced

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The Advanced tab is part of the customization panel which is available for your convenience. It is located in the right sidebar when you are in your form Settings or a View. Please note that some of these features are not included in the lite version.

Inside the tab

The Advanced tab contains a variety of clickable buttons that insert helpful shortcodes.
Advanced Side Panel

Advanced shortcodes

Separator: Specify the separator for checkbox field values. By default, this will be a comma.
```
[x sep=", "]
```
Date Format: Change the format of a displayed date. This can be used with date field, created_at, and updated_at shortcodes.
```
[x format="d-m-Y"]
```
For more information and options on date format, visit the Date format options section.
Field Label: Show the label of a field.
```
[x show="field_label"]
```
No Auto P: Remove any automatically added paragraph tags from a paragraph or rich text field.
```
[x wpautop=0]
```
Clickable Links: Make a link clickable.
```
[x clickable=1]
```
Remove Links: Remove a link from text.
```
[x links=0]
```
Sanitize: Replace spaces with dashes and change all characters to lowercase.
```
[x sanitize=1]
```
Sanitize URL: Replace all HTML entities with a URL safe string. Use this when passing the field value in a URL.
```
[x sanitize_url=1]
```
Truncate: Truncate text to the specified number of characters. By default, a link is appended to the end of the text. You can use the following parameters to modify or remove this link.
```
[x truncate=40]
```
- More Text: By default, this link will be "..." but can be changed with the parameter below. If using a Dynamic View, the link goes to the detail page. Otherwise, it will show in-place.
```
[x truncate=100 more_text="Read More"]
```
- No Link: By default, when truncating text, there will be a link to show the remaining text. To remove this link, use the following shortcode. Please note, the no_link parameter requires the truncate parameter to also be used.
```
[x truncate=100 no_link=1]
```
Time Ago: Display the amount of time between a saved date and today's date. You can use this with a date field, created_at, or updated_at shortcode.
```
[x time_ago=1]
```
or
```
[created-at time_ago=1]
```
# Format: Change the format of a displayed number. You can change the number of decimals places, the decimal type, and the separator for thousands.
```
[x decimal=2 dec_point="." thousands_sep=","]
```
For more information on this, see the Number format option section.
Saved Value: Show the saved value of a field. This is most helpful when you are using separate values.
```
[x show="value"]
```
Remove HTML: Remove any HTML from a field.
```
[x striphtml=1]
```
Keep JS: Javascript will be stripped from a field automatically when the field is displayed in an email, confirmation message, View, etc. If you would like to keep the javascript in a field, use;
```
[x keepjs=1]
```
Show image: Display an uploaded image file.
```
[x show_image=1]
```
Image ID: Display the attachment ID of an uploaded file.
```
[x show=id]
```
Image Name: Display the filename of an uploaded file.
```
[x show_filename=1]
```

Note: In all usage examples, you must replace x with the ID of a field in your form.

Insert user information

Advanced User Info All of the UserID shortcodes can be found in the bottom section of the Advanced tab in the right sidebar. You must have a UserID field in your form in order to use any of the following shortcodes.

- User ID: Display the user's ID number.
```
[x show="ID"]
```
- First Name: Display the user's first name.
```
[x show="first_name"]
```
- Last Name: Display the user's last name.
```
[x show="last_name"]
```
- Display Name: Show the user's display name.
```
[x show="display_name"]
```
- User Login: Display the user's username/login.
```
[x show="user_login"]
```
- Email: Show the user's email address.
```
[x show="user_email"]
```
- Avatar: Display the user's avatar, if he/she has one. Before the avatar will show, you'll need to go to the WordPress Settings -> Discussion page and make sure the "Show Avatars" box is checked.
```
[x show="avatar"]
```
- User Meta: Display any user meta you have added with the User Registration addon.
```
[x show="address"]
```
  You must replace "address" with the name of your user meta.

Note: In all usage examples, you must replace x with the ID of the UserID field in your form.

Dynamic field options

You can use the following shortcodes to display information from a dynamic field.

- Creation Date: Display the creation date for the linked entry.
```
[x show="created-at"]
```
- Field from Entry: Display a field from the linked entry.
```
[x show="311"]
```
  Replace 311 with the ID of any field in the linked form.
- Entry ID: Display the ID of the linked entry.
```
[x show=id]
```
- User ID Information: Show information from the profile of the user who submitted the linked entry, this include user meta.
```
[x show="y" show="user_email"]
```
  Replace y with the ID of a userID field in the linked form. All of the different user info shortcode options are listed in the Insert User Information section.
- Three Level Entry Information: If you have a Dynamic field that pulls from another Dynamic field, you can display information from the form that the second Dynamic field pulls from. The following shortcode may be used to display information from a field in the third level form:
```
[x show="y" show_info=95]
```
  The following shortcode may be used to display an entry ID from the third level form:
```
[x show="y" show_info=id]
```
  Replace y with the ID of the Dynamic field in the linked form.

Note: In all usage examples, you must replace x with the ID of the Dynamic field in your form.

Examples

Display checkbox options in a list

To display your submitted checkbox options in an ordered list, insert this shortcode in a View, email, form success message, or an Email notification:

<ol><li>[x sep="</li><li>"]</li></ol>

Replace x with the field ID/Key of a checkbox field in your form.

Prevent special character removal

If you are passing a field value in your form's redirect URL and you need to prevent special characters (like accents) from being removed, follow the directions below.

Go into edit the form that will be passing the field value in the redirect URL.
Go into the form's Settings.
In the redirect URL box, add sanitize_url to all the fields that could contain special characters. Your redirect URL may look something like this:
```
your-site-url.com/?pass_field=[x sanitize_url=1]
```
Replace x with a field ID/Key.

Show a user's age

If you would like to display a user's age in a View, email notification, or confirmation message, follow the steps below.

Add a Date field to your form. Title it 'Date of Birth'.
Go into your View and/or form Settings.
Insert the following shortcode:
```
[x time_ago=1]
```
Replace x with the field ID/Key of the Date field from your form.

Remove extra space around paragraph fields

When a paragraph field is displayed in a View, post, or email notification, <p> tags will be added around the text automatically. The paragraph tags create extra space around the text. To remove the extra space insert the shortcode like this:

[x wpautop=0]

Replace x with a Paragraph field ID/Key from your form.

Date format options

Display a date in any format you would like with the format parameter. Here are some examples of different formats that can be used:

- [x format="d-m-Y"] displays the following format: 21-09-2016
- [x format="D, F j, Y"] displays the following format: Mon, September 21, 2016
- [x format="l, M d, y"] displays the following format: Monday, Sep 21, 16

Replace x with the Date field ID/Key from your form.

Find a full list of date format characters at php.net under the 'Parameters' section. For a list of helpful format options, scroll down to the Examples section.

Number format option

Change the format of a displayed number in a View, post, email notification, or confirmation message.

[x decimal=2 dec_point="." thousands_sep=","]

Replace x with the Number field ID/Key from your form.

decimal: Determine how many decimal places to show. Usage: [x decimal="2"].
dec_point: Determine the decimal point character. Usage: [x dec_point="."]
thousands_sep: Determines the character separator for thousands. Usage: [x thousands_sep=","]

If you would like to place a dollar sign in front of the number, insert the shortcode like this:

$[x decimal=2 dec_point="." thousands_sep=","]

European number format

If you need to display your number in a European format, you may use the following shortcode:

[x decimal=2 dec_point="," thousands_sep="."]

Replace x with the Number field ID/key from your form.