We're looking at purchasing FormStack to manage all the forms and waivers a parent must complete to enroll their child in our Academy. We'd like to integrate it with TNEW as some sort of precart interruption that forces everything in FormStack to be completed before the parent can finish their purchase. I've yet to create any API calls, but from what I've seen in past TLCC presentations and open space discussion notes, I assume it's possible. Any guidance is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Interesting problem! Whether this is possible as you describe it will largely depend on Formstack’s capabilities. The easy part would be to fire a TNEW precart customization that displays the form—the hard part is ensuring that the form has been completed before the customer is allowed to continue. That’s because for something like this to be technically correct, you can’t trust the user’s browser to faithfully relay information from/about the form — you would instead need a communication channel from your database (which controls TNEW customizations) to Formstack’s API.
You might be able to accept less technical correctness/safety in favor of simplicity by having code in the browser control whether or not the user can continue based on information formstack sends back to the page that displayed the form. But again, all of this is contingent upon formstack’s application actually being capable of doing those things. Hope this helps!
Thanks Nick. I also started testing WordFly's new Pages feature on Friday. The thought being that since it's supposed to integrate with Tessitura once out of beta in mid-April, I could build an RSVP page that populates Attributes. I could use these Attributes to give the customer a ranking allowing them to purchase the class.