Still working on my new form, and I need to have the applicant read disclosure documents before submitting the form. There are 3 disclosure documents. My customer has requested me to make the documents appear one at a time. Once the first one has been read, then I need a check box that states "I have read and agree to the terms." Once the box is checked, then the 2nd document has to be read, with the same process, and then a third document.

I have a link for displaying the documents that pop-up over the form once selected. I used an HTML element and put the link to the document along with a little javascript pop-up routine in it, which works just fine.

So, then all I would need is to have a check box be conditional on whether or not the applicant actually views the document. But, my issue at that point is that the HTML element can't be labeled, and I don't have anything where I can add a condition based upon whether or not the HTML element has been selected. Just knowing whether or not it was clicked upon would be enough if I could only have the check box appear after. Then, the 2nd check box should appear after the 1st box is checked, etc.

Does anyone out there have suggestions on how I could accomplish this?

I appreciate it.

If you use the html element your not going to be able to capture that they actual opened the doc to look at. Your going to need a different approach.

So, is there an alternative with the Web Form Builder? I didn't see any other option for inserting html or a link to an external document.

Why not put the links to the documents next to check boxes with HTML elements and have each checkbox be required.
No matter how you do it you still can't guarantee the user actually read the docs.

As Eric suggested, look at the sample form I created here ...http://gunsmoke.me/h/coffee/mandatoryreadingform.fb

Just open it in WFB and look at the settings.

You cannot guarantee that someone will read your documents, but you can have them select a check box 'saying' that they did. Where I have 'Document 1' just paste in the text from your document. Customize it to fit your web page. Let me know if this works for you.

Well, that's basically what I did. My customer knows that we can't guarantee that the applicant reads the file, they just want me to capture the fact that the link to the document was selected.

I don't see a way to capture that event with the Web Form Builder. Maybe in a future release?

I appreciate all of the assistance.

You cannot capture that the link was clicked or even opened, but really all you are wanting them to confirm is they read the document. For that, just add a checkbox and make it required. By them checking the box, they are confirming they did read it. There is no way to prove they actually did, but they are saying they have by checking the box.

Yeah you would need a good bit of code used in something like a PDF (hand coded, as I don't believe any form program would do it) that puts that checkbox into the actual document. I've seen many sites and software programs do that where you need to actually scroll down to the bottom of the opened document and check the box before it lets you continue.

That type of system would take heavy hand coding I'm sure, and doing what Scott suggested would be the typical way of doing it and a whole lot easier.

That's exactly what I did. I don't see an "easy" way to validate a click on a link. Thank you for the help.

Here's another thought. Extra coding like JoAnn stated but not that much since you already did the popups.
Make 4 forms.
Form 1 is the main form.
Form 2-4 are the document forms.
On form one use and html element to make the popup to show form two.
On form two replicate this and use a popup to show form 3.
on form three replicate this and use a popup to show form 4
form 2-4 would have the document embedded in it with a check box at the end.
Make everything required.
It works in my head.