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Get Input Field value using DTM on Submitting a form

I have two input fields that had the user access card and password. and the user click on submit button to authenticate.
I'm using DTM in my app to capture the user navigation but I want also to get the values of those field to my DTM so I would know who the user is.
And here is what I tried but with no luck.
Created Data element as below:
And created Event based rule. But not sure how to get the values to be shown in my report:
Thanks for your help.

Example Form
Since you did not post what your form code looks like, here is a simple form based on what I see in the screenshots you posted, that I will use in my examples below.
<form id='someForm'>
User Name <input type='text' name='userName'><br>
Password <input type='password' name='userPass'><br>
<input type='submit' value='submit' />
</form>
Data Elements
Okay first, let's go over what you did wrong.
1) You said you want to capture two form fields, but you only have one data element...maybe? You didn't really convey this in your question. I just assumed as much because of what you did throughout the rest of the screenshots. But to be clear: you should have two separate data elements, one for each field.
2) The CSS Selector Chain value you used is just input, so it will select the first input field on the page, which may or may not coincide with one of the input fields you are looking to capture. So, you need to use a CSS selector that is unique to the input field you want to capture. Something as simple as input[name="userName"] will probably be good enough (but I cannot confirm this without seeing your site). You will need to do the same for the 2nd Data Element you create for the other input field (e.g. input[name="userPass"])
3) In the Get the value of dropdown, you chose "name". This means that if you have for example <input type='text' name='foo'>, it will return "foo". Since you want to capture the value the user inputs, you should select "value" from the dropdown.
Solution
Putting all the above together, you should have two Data Elements that look something like this (one for the user name field and one for the password field; only one shown below):
Event Base Rule
Okay first, let's go over what you did wrong.
1) The value you specified in Element Tag or Selector is input. You aren't submitting an input field; you are submitting a form. Input fields don't even have a submit event handler! Your Event Type is "submit", so at a minimum, Element Tag or Selector should be form. But really..
2) Ideally, you should use a CSS Selector that more directly and uniquely targets the form you want to trigger the rule for. For example, maybe the form has an id attribute you can target in your CSS Selector. Or maybe the form is on a specific page, so you can add additional conditions based on the URL. What combination of CSS Selector or other conditions you use to uniquely identify your form depends on how your site is setup. In my example form above, I added an id attribute, so I can use form#someForm as the CSS Selector.
3) You checked the Manually assign properties & attributes checkbox, and then added two Property = Value items. This tells DTM to only trigger the rule if the input has a name attribute with value of "userName" AND if it has a name attribute value of "userPass". Well name can't have two values at the same time, now can it!
<input name='foo' name='bar'> <!-- bad! -->
All of this needs to be removed, because again (from #1), you should be targeting a form, not an input field.
4) For good measure, looks like you added a Rule Condition of type Data > Custom, but the code box is empty. The rule will only trigger if the box returns a truthy value. Since there is no code in the box, it will return undefined (default value returned by a javascript function if nothing is returned), which is a falsey value. This also needs to be removed.
Solution
Putting all the above together, the Conditions section of the Event Based Rule should look something like this:
But again, ideally your conditions should be more complex, to more uniquely target your form.
Referencing the Data Elements
Lastly, you can reference the input fields to populate whatever fields in the various Tool sections with the %data_element% syntax. For example, you can populate a couple of Adobe Analytics eVars like this (data element names reflect the examples I created above):
Or, you can reference them with javascript syntax in a custom code box as e.g. _satellite.getVar('form_userName');
Additional Notes
1) I Strongly recommend you do not capture / track this type of info. Firstly, based on context clues in your post, it looks like this may count as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), which is protected under a number of laws, varying from country to country. Secondly, in general, it is a big security risk to capture this information and send it to Adobe (or anywhere else, really). Overall, capturing this sort of data is practically begging for fines, lawsuits, etc.
2) Note that (assuming all conditions met), the "submit" Event Type will track when the user clicks the submit button, which is not necessarily the same thing as the user successfully completing the form (filling out all the form fields with valid input, etc.). I don't know the full context/motive of your requirements, but in general, most people aim to only capture an event / data on successful form completion (and sometimes separately track form errors).

jquery validate plugin, validating form fields of only current screen

I am using jquery validate plugin to validate form fields . I am also using jqtree . on click of every child node a section of form is visible to user, which is supposed to be filled with values.For every child there is a form content to be filled. Entire tree content is declared within one form only. I have a button in the form which on click generates json file. I am calling the function below to validate form
$("myform").validate();
....
if($("#my-form).valid())
generate the json file
but this is not validating the entire form. suppose I am on childNode1 it validates only form section defined for childNode1. As far as I have understood jquery validate plugin should validate entire form when correct form id is specified. But can anyone tell me what has gone wrong in my approach?

The .validate() method does not "validate the form". It only initializes the plugin on the form. .valid() will programmatically trigger a validation test.
Your code:
$("myform").validate();
....
if($("#my-form).valid())
generate the json file
$("myform") - Is that supposed to be an id, class, or name? As you've written it, it's looking for a <myform></myform> element.
$("#myform") // id="myform"
$(".myform") // class="myform"
$("[name='myform']") // name="myform"
Is your form element called myform or my-form? If it's the same <form> element, then the two jQuery selectors would be the same.
$("#my-form) is missing the closing quotation mark.
If the id of the <form> element is "myform", then your code should be...
$("#myform").validate(); // <- initialize the plugin
....
if ($("#myform").valid()) { // <- test the form's validity
// generate the json file
....
}
OP Title: jquery validate plugin, validating form fields of only current screen
Your question does not seem to have anything to do with the title. There is only one form described in your OP, and since this is JavaScript, only the page that's loaded in the browser is relevant. Not sure what you mean by "current screen".
but this is not validating the entire form. suppose I am on childNode1 it validates only form section defined for childNode1. As far as I have understood jquery validate plugin should validate entire form when correct form id is specified.
By default, the plugin will not validate any form fields that are hidden. You would manipulate the ignore option to over-ride this behavior. Setting ignore to [] will tell the plugin to ignore nothing and validate all fields including the hidden ones.

Jquery validation engine ajax, two fields same function?

The jQuery validation engine plugin has the ability to do ajax validation; which works gret except for one small catch...
It sends off the field ID instead of the field name to be validated.
Why is this an issue?
I have a simple item that to create it only requires one textbox to be filled out; so we have this as a modal on every page for managing said item.
We use the jQuery validation engine plugin to validate that the entered value is unique.
Now this also means that the modal shows up on the edit page. Which obviously has the title in a field as well for you to edit.
And we want this field to be validated as well but because the validation engine sends across the field ID instead of the field name we must give the two fields different ID's
e.g. createtitle and edittitle and then on the backend have
if($fieldId == 'createtitle' || $fieldId == 'edittitle'){$fieldId = $fieldId}
Which really is an ugly approach; is there any way to get it to use the name; or another attribute instead?

Maybe this plugin could help you. It uses class names of your element to validate.

Mootools submit form only works when selecting form through id

I've been trying to submit a form through mootools (1.4.5) on FF 14. The form does not contain an input named submit (which is often the problem). What I want is onchange in a select to submit the form. After half an hour the code below was my first attempt that got it working. objSelect is a select object that is contained within the form that I need to submit.
$(''+objSelect.getParent('form').get('id')).submit();
.
What the reason that the code below doesn't work as well?
// Without the explicit cast to string (''+); doesn't work
$(objSelect.getParent('form').get('id')).submit();
nor
// Most obvious way; doesn't work
objSelect.getParent('form').submit();

you can't have child nodes with reserved names that get exported via old DOM level API - see here how forms are being represented: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/forms.html#access
So basically - at an element level, if you have:
form
input[name=foo]
input[name=bar]
form.foo and form.bar will reference these element on the form element object.
the problem in your case is:
form (with a .submit and .reset method)
button[name=submit]
now form.submit stops referencing the submit method and starts referencing the input element.
you still submit this form by doing either:
rename the element that is wrong or remove from the form.
cheat by calling submit from a clean form.
new Element("form").submit.call(this.getParent("form"));
basically you create a new form element with a clean submit method. that returns an object and you call the method with the other "dirty" form as context.
this is just the same as doing
Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments)

How to clear all inputs, selects and also hidden fields in a form using jQuery?

I would like to clear all inputs,
selects and also all hidden fields in a form.
Using jQuery is an option if best suited.
What is the easiest way to do this... I mean easy to understand and maintain.
[EDIT]
The solution must not mess with check-boxes (the value must remain, but checked state must be cleared), nor the submit button.
What I am trying to do is a clear button, that clears all the options entered by the user explicitly, plus hidden-fields.
Thanks!

You can use the reset() method:
$('#myform')[0].reset();
or without jQuery:
document.getElementById('myform').reset();
where myform is the id of the form containing the elements you want to be cleared.
You could also use the :input selector if the fields are not inside a form:
$(':input').val('');

To clear all inputs, including hidden fields, using JQuery:
// Behold the power of JQuery.
$('input').val('');
Selects are harder, because they have a fixed list. Do you want to clear that list, or just the selection.
Could be something like
$('option').attr('selected', false);

$('#formID')[0].reset(); // Reset all form fields

If you want to apply clear value to a specific number of fields, then assign id or class to them and apply empty value to them. like this:
$('.all_fields').val('');
where all_fields is class applied to desired input fields for applying empty values.
It will protect other fields to be empty, that you don't want to change.

I had a slightly more specialised case, a search form which had an input which had autocomplete for a person name. The Javascript code set a hidden input which from.reset() does not clear.
However I didn't want to reset all hidden inputs. There I added a class, search-value, to the hidden inputs which where to be cleared.
$('form#search-form').reset();
$('form#search-form input[type=hidden].search-value').val('');

for empty all input tags such as input,select,textatea etc. run this code
$('#message').val('').change();

You can put this inside your jquery code or it can stand alone:
window.onload = prep;
function prep(){
document.getElementById('somediv').onclick = function(){
document.getElementById('inputField').value ='';
}
}