Form Dynamic Tag Manager - adobe-analytics

I'm trying to tracking this form https://secure-www.seat.com/content/lu/brand/fr/contact/arrange-a-test-drive.htx with Dynamic Tag Manager (DTM)of Adobe.
I've create a Rule Based Event like this:
Event Type --> Submit
Apply event handler directly... (In fact I try with check and uncheck)
Element Tag --> form
The same rule, with my personal page form is successful: http://pujoljulia.com/ (!Hablémos! link). As you can see I used form Tag selector, but also I tried other, button, div... and rule doesn't trigger ever.
However, in both pages the Click Map listener recognized event. Honestly I try all options and I can't see why. Can someone help me?

I'm trying to tracking this form
https://secure-www.seat.com/content/lu/brand/fr/contact/arrange-a-test-drive.htx
with Dynamic Tag Manager (DTM)of Adobe.
I took a look at your page and there it looks like DTM is not being loaded on that page. I could not find the _satellite object.

Dynamic form handlers on sites that have customized forms are fairly unstable, usually one or the other breaks. I did not look too deeply to the seat.com page, but it looks to me like JavaScript is used to override default behavior and this could be causing the problem. Clicks do get registered, but this would not solve your problems, as
What I would suggest is that you move the tracking to the next page, where the form has been submitted. This is far more reliable and has a lower chance of causing issues. Usually you can use URL parameters or page naming variables to target on these pages.

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How to navigate?

Say I create an HTML file with two .page on it. In the first .page, I'd like to have a link to the second .page.
Is there a way to navigate between pages without having to write my own JS? This seems to suggest I do have to write JS: http://view.jquerymobile.com/1.3.2/dist/demos/widgets/navigation/.
However, I'd would rather set an id attribute for one of the pages, then maybe define some data attribute in the link to tell jQuery mobile where to go. Possible?
I'd also like to specify what kind of transition effect to use.
You can use standard anchor links, just give an id to your page and set the transition via the data attribute
Link to Page 2

making unobtrusive validation work when using Select2 ASP.NET MVC

Select boxes converted to Select2, do not automatically integrate with unobtrusive validation mechanism in ASP.NET MVC framework.
For example, on a form which contains a regular select box (marked as required in model definition), submitting the form while no options have been selected in the select box, will cause the border and background of the select box to take a reddish color, and by using #Html.ValidationMessageFor, error messages, if any, can be displayed beside the box. However if the select box is converted to a Select2 component, then none of the mentioned features work any more. Even the validation error message will not show up.
It seems that the reason for even the validation error message not showing, is because Select2 changes the display CSS property of the original select box to none (display:none), and I guess the unobtrusive validation script does not bother generating error messages for invisible fields.
Any ideas / solutions?
This issue isn't really specific to Select2, but rather to the jQuery unobtrusive validator.
You can turn on validation for hidden fields as highlighted in this answer.
$.validator.setDefaults({
ignore: ''
});
As the comments noted, it didn't work inside an anonymous callback function within $(document).ready(). I had to put it at the top level.
I've run into similar issues with the select2 plugin. I don't know exactly which features you're using specifically, but in my experience, when you set an element as a select2 in the document.ready event, the plugin will change some of the element's attributes on the fly (inspect one of the elements after your page has finished loading - oftentimes you'll see the id and class properties are different than what you're seeing when you view source).
It's difficult to offer more without actually seeing the code, but here's a few ideas to get you started:
First off, obviously make sure you have the a link to your select2.css stylesheet in the header.
Then, since you're talking about form submissions, I'd recommend you examine whether or not you're getting a full postback or submitting via AJAX (if you're using jQueryMobile, you're using AJAX unless you override it in the jquerymobile.js file or set a data-ajax="false" in your form attributes). You can just look at the value returned by Request.IsAjaxRequest() for this. Obviously if you're submitting via ajax, you won't hit the document.ready event and the select2 won't initialize properly and you'd need to figure out a way around that. Try refreshing the page after the submit and see if it renders the select2 component.
Then I'd suggest examining the elements and see if they're not behaving like you'd expect because you're actually trying to work with classes that the plugin has reassigned at runtime. You can either just adjust your logic, or you can dig into the select2 code itself and change the behavior - it's actually fairly well-documented what the code is doing, and if you hop on the Google group for select2, Igor is usually pretty quick to follow up with questions.
like this
$('select').on('select2:select', function (evt){
$(this).blur();
});
$('body').on('change', 'select.m-select2', function () {
$(this).blur();
})

How can I manipulate a form / inputs to be ignored when a form is submitted

I'm using ExpressionEngine and SafeCracker along with Ajax (plugin: jquery.form.js - http://jquery.malsup.com/form/).
Best I can tell, SafeCracker will only allow for updating a single entry at a time. However, the UI / UX necessitates that a list be displayed. I've proof of concept'ed an entry by entry on-demand form. That is, click a particular edit link next to each entry and a snippet of jquery creates a form along with displaying a submit button. Click submit and that single entry updates. The inputs don't exist until the Update link is clicked
What I would prefer to do, if possible, is to create the non-form and form versions of each entry as the page is renbered and use some sort of toggle to display one or the other. Again, doable. Then, when I click the Edit link I'd add the necessary attributes to the input so that entry's form elements will be read but the other (display: none) elements for the other entries will be ignored. I'm thinking (out loud) that if I add the attr("name", some-value) that would work. That is, an input with no name will be ignored.
Yes, I can test this and I will. However, even if it works I'm not sure if it's a best practice and/or there's a more ideal way of accomplishing my ends. I'm here looking for validation and/or additional expertise and input.
Thanks in advance.
Just set disabled property to inputs and they will excluded from Form submission, whatever input fields are hidden or visible. Different jQuery methods, like submit() and serialize() follow specification of HTML 4 and exclude all disabled controls of a forms. So one way is to set
$('your_input').prop('disabled', true);
or ,
$('your_input').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
Check following link:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#successful-controls
Also, you may use a general button instead of a submit, as result you can handle click event on it and within that event you can make exclusion, validation, manipulation on values and what ever you like.
You can put a disabled attribute on them server side or set the property via jQuery:
$(".hidden input").prop("disabled", true);

Creating ajax-enabled subform with "Edit" button

I am looking for the best way to create ajax enabled subforms from items in a list with MVC 3. A static list of values should be generated, but with an "edit" link/button next to every item, to toggle inline edits.
I did follow the tutorial at this link
http://blog.janjonas.net/2011-07-24/asp_net-mvc_3-ajax-form-jquery-validate-supporting-unobtrusive-client-side-validation-and-server-side-validation [1]
However it is based on the form edit fields always being visible
I'd like to show a static list with field values, but let the user activate an edit field by clicking "edit" (e.g. button)
I did modify the example at [1] by creating a default partial view with a form with submit button only. When posting the data by ajax the edit form will show. It looks like it is working, (I only need to hide validation errors on the first POST - which does not send real data).
Update:
An even better solution would probably be to leave out all forms in the static view, just have a single css class button/link next to each item, and let jquery fetch the relevant view for the clicked item. I am not sure how to do that with MVC 3+jQuery though.
Another update:
I discovered Ajax.Actionlink, which did exactly what I wanted!
I found out how to do it, and it turned out to be real simple!
I created two partial views.
One for rendering each static item. I used used Ajax.ActionLink with InsertionMode "replace", and set the parent of the item as the target
The second for rendering the form. Here I used Ajax.Beginform with similar options.
On successfully saved data, I returned the static view, on failure, I returned the partial view with the ajax form again.
I'm happy I found a MVC-centric way to do it (although it is fun creating custom stuff with jQuery)
It sounds like you need an inline editing plugin for jQuery. I would try jEditable. I have not used it myself but appears to have extensive docs.
this entry might help: code + video + explanation ;)
http://ricardocovo.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/asp-mvc3-editing-records-with-jqueryui-dialogs-and-ajaxforms/
-covo

Is there a way to change the browser's address bar without refreshing the page?

I'm developing a web app. In it I have a section called categories that every time a user clicks one of the categories an update panel loads the appropriate content.
After the user clicked the category I want to change the browser's address bar url from
www.mysite.com/products
to something like
www.mysite.com/products/{selectedCat}
without refreshing the page.
Is there some kind of JavaScript API I can use to achieve this?
With HTML5 you can modify the url without reloading:
If you want to make a new post in the browser's history (i.e. back button will work)
window.history.pushState('Object', 'Title', '/new-url');
If you just want to change the url without being able to go back
window.history.replaceState('Object', 'Title', '/another-new-url');
The object can be used for ajax navigation:
window.history.pushState({ id: 35 }, 'Viewing item #35', '/item/35');
window.onpopstate = function (e) {
var id = e.state.id;
load_item(id);
};
Read more here: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-author/history.html
A fallback sollution: https://github.com/browserstate/history.js
To add to what the guys have already said edit the window.location.hash property to match the URL you want in your onclick function.
window.location.hash = 'category-name'; // address bar would become http://example.com/#category-name
I believe directly manipulating the address bar to a completely different url without moving to that url isn't allowed for security reasons, if you are happy with it being
www.mysite.com/products/#{selectedCat}
i.e. an anchor style link within the same page then look into the various history/"back button" scripts that are now present in most javascript libraries.
The mention of update panel leads me to guess you are using asp.net, in that case the asp.net ajax history control is a good place to start
I don't think this is possible (at least changing to a totally different address), as it would be an unintuitive misuse of the address bar, and could promote phishing attacks.
This cannot be done the way you're saying it. The method suggested by somej.net is the closest you can get. It's actually very common practice in the AJAX age. Even Gmail uses this.
"window.location.hash"
as suggested by sanchothefat should be the one and only way of doing it. Because all the places that I have seen this feature, it's all the time after the # in URL.

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