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Noah you’ve done it again!

This is absolutely killer! We are going to experiment with this immediately. Nice work.

This is great. 👍

Does anybody know a way to prevent the conversation from continuing if there is a validation error?

For example, if somebody does not enter a proper email address than the conversation would say something like “Please re-enter your email” instead of a red box popping up and the form continuing.

Thank you.

I think that’s something that @Noah is looking into right now, but if anyone else has an idea of how to implement that in the meantime, I’d definitely love to see it!

Hi Noah, woooww, this is so cool!!

I used it right away and built this: http://try.onefit.nl/test/

However, I would like to change the ‘type your answer here’ to another text.

Does anybody know how this is possible?

Thanks and regards,

Nicole

This is really cool!

My main concern is how this works with form validation and unexpected responses. For example, what happens when the script asks for a first name and the user responds, “How much does it cost?”.

Hey everyone! First, I’d like to mention that this library is very flexible and comprehensive. There’s a lot that can be done with it if you’re not afraid to get your hands dirty, so I’d highly recommend the reviewing the library here.

That said, I’ve got a few answers for some questions in this thread:

@AlanJ, this library has a couple methods for form validation. This simplest way I’ve been able to get working is by removing any built-in validation and adding a ‘pattern’ attribute to my field. You can do this with jQuery like this:

$("#email").attr("pattern", ".+\@.+\..+");

You can add a custom error message like this:

$("#email").attr("cf-error", "Please re-enter your email!");

@nicole, for the default placeholder text, you will need to overwrite the default by adding the following to the object passed to $(formElm).conversationalForm:

dictionaryData: {"input-placeholder": "test text!"}

Here’s what these two solutions look like in context:

@Phillip, Conversational forms are a relatively new concept for users, so I can see where you’re coming from with your concerns. While there are ways of validating the inputs, I don’t know of a good way of accounting for that scenario. Thanks for bringing this up though, I’ll keep my eyes peeled for a good way of solving this problem.

Trying to use this in a lightbox with WP integration on the account, but the box comes up empty. Any ideas?

Hey @Anders_Westholm feel free to direct message me with a link to your page and I’ll see if I can identify what’s going on!

Thank you @Noah for your response. 🙏 The email pattern you gave me works so I was wondering if you can also give me a pattern for an international generic phone number to make sure there are only digits and special characters as what I have tried so far only makes the form not show up at all.

Also, when I tried to use radio buttons or checkboxes in the form, the conversational area is filled with the first option of the radio buttons/checkboxes and not what was typed into the field label. Do you know how to fix this issue?

Thank you again.

Alan

Thanks for your response Noah, will try it right away!

I just want to chime and say that we have been testing these forms on multiple campaigns and they are doing very well. We have success over standard forms with this method. We’re really loving it!

Take a gander here >>> http://kellyklee.com/ppc/chubb/insurance/h.html, but PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT THE FORM(I’ll know if you do and I will HUNT you down 🙂 ) at the end of the path. In this case we use conversation forms as a friendly opener and then move the user to a multistep form to complete the data collection. We have tried several variations and this one is converting the highest

Very cool, thanks for sharing! Out of curiosity, what solution are you using for that multistep form?

@Andy2 it’s all in Unbounce 🙂

@digibomb Even the multistep form? If so, how?

@Andy2 yes, even the multistep … it is a riff on this "How To] Add A Multi-Step Form 2.0

@digibomb Amazing! Thanks very much (and for entertaining the tangent to the original post). Spent a lot of time last year trying to figure this out in Unbounce, missed that community post from the other month.

@Andy2 no prob! 🙂

Big shouts to @Noah for this script!

I was playing around with some convertables and tried this script as an exit overlay.

It’s dangerously close to being creepy, so I’d use this sparingly, but you can check it out here:

http://unbouncepages.com/convoconversions/

I wanted to know if we can have some more personalised conversations like, “Thank you {name} for submitting the form. Our team will get back to you within 24hours.” How to use the {name} field inside the other form fields.

You can achieve this with dynamic text

This amazing tip doesn’t work on IE. Someone have a solution ?

Hey there @Noah and the rest of the Unbounce community on this thread 😃

I have just tried this awesome script yesterday, but ran into a few small issues that i was wondering if you could help me with. As shown in the gif below, I was able to validate e-mails and thus prevent users from going further down the form if the input was wrong, but unable to do the same for phone numbers - the error only shows up after the whole conversation was complete.

I tried using CSS to style the form to make the borders 25px on all corners with the below code, but somehow only the bottom corners appeared and opacity simply did not happen:

.conversational-form {

border-radius: 25px;

opacity: 0.5;

}

Is there a way to have an option at the end of the form like ‘let’s do this again’ so that the user can start over with the whole form in case there was an error? Or even better, have the conversational form show up in the lightbox so that the user can just exit the lightbox and restart again with a lightbox button?

I know that’s quite a lot of questions at once but I’ll definitely appreciate it if anyone can help with this issue too 😅

Thank you very much in advance!

Hi @nicki123tw, you may want to try removing the built-in phone number validation and adding custom validation to the phone number field similar to the email validation mentioned here:

Hey Noah 😃

Thank you for the replies!

I have tried using

$("#email").attr(“pattern”, “.+@.+…+”);

replacing #email with #number but the I know absolutely nothing about what to replace for the “pattern” part and so when I used that custom validation, the whole conversational form just stops working.

If you have tried it out and managed to make it work do let me know! 😃 CUrrently I’ve just added a message at the end of the conversational form telling users to refresh the page and fill in the information again if anything went wrong.