Creating Tracker Fields

Use this process to create fields for a tracker. The fields determine the type of information (such as text an email addres) that visitors must complete.

From the Admin trackers page:

  1. Click the Trackers tab.
    You can also access the Trackers page by selecting Trackers > List Trackers from the menu.
  2. On the Trackers tab, select Actions > Fields for the tracker you created.
    Adding fields to your new tracker.
  3. The Admin Tracker page appears for your tracker. The Tracker Fields tab shows the fields for the tracker — currently there are none.
    Use this form to create a tracker field.
  4. Click the Add Field button. The Add Field window appears. Use this window to create the actual tracker fields.
    Use this form to create a tracker field.
  5. Enter the following information in each
    • Name:Type Your name. This is field in which the site visitors will type their name.
    • Type:Select text field from the droplist.

       Note

      For each Type, you can use additional options to control the formatting or validation of the field. See the documentation for full details.
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  6. Click Add field. Tiki adds the new field to the tracker.
    Your new tracker field.
  7. Enable the following options for the field:
    • List: Enable this option. When listing all the tracker items at once, you will be able to see each visitor's name.
    • Title: Enable this field. This will allow you to click on the field title (Your name) field when listing the tracker, in order to edit the information.
    • Public: Enable this option. This will allow you to display the Your name field when displaying trackers in wiki pages.
    • Mandatory: Enable this option. This forces users to enter a name.
  8. Select Save All and click Go. Tiki saves the information and reloads the page.

 Note

The ID field is a system-generated field, used internally by Tiki to record each field's unique ID.

Creating the other fields

The Visitor Information tracker now contains a single field (Your name) that will be used to collect each visitor's name. Let's add additional fields to collect each visitor's email address, telephone number, and mailing address.

Repeat the steps from Creating Tracker Fields and add the following fields:

Name Type List Table Public Mandatory
Email email Enabled Enabled Disabled Enabled
Phone number text field Enabled Enabled Disabled Disabled
Mailing address textarea Disabled Enabled Disabled Disabled
City text field Enabled Enabled Enabled Disabled
State or Province text field Enabled Enabled Enabled Disabled
Country country selector Enabled Enabled Enabled Enabled


The Tracker Fields tab of the Admin tracker: Visitor information should look similar to this:
All of the fields for the Visitor Information tracker.

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