I am writing JavaScript for my Single step donation forms in Sphere. 

Where can one find documentation details on the data types for the Sphere donation form fields?

I have located the very general data type info via Sphere Online Help (Customization --> Field Data Types) but it does not provide important details such as:

- field length (for text or text area fields ... including input contstraints vs. DB constraints)

- date format ( input formats required for successful posting of form data to the Sphere backend DB)

etc.

Is there a place for this kind of technical info regarding Sphere?

Thanks,

Karen

Karen,

The API matrix is a good way to find out the length and format of the fields: 

http://www.kintera.com/doc/connect/Kintera_Connect_API_Methods_and_Entities_Matrix.htm

 But the only way I know to get the merge field names is to merge them using the WYSIWYG editor first and find out what they are called.  We started a list here:

 [[salutation]]
[[First Name]]
[[Middle Name]]
[[Last Name]]
[[suffix]]
[[Email Address]]
[[Address_1]]
[[Address_2]]
[[city]]
[[state]]
[[zip]]
[[phone]]

[[customfield_XXXXXX]]