Pages:Custom Forms
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Revision as of 20:17, 31 October 2008 by 71.163.185.8 (Talk) (New page: Custom forms allow page content managers to create forms on the fly in the WYSIWYG editor. A knowledge of HTML form coding is required to do this. When a custom form is submitted by a webs...)
Custom forms allow page content managers to create forms on the fly in the WYSIWYG editor. A knowledge of HTML form coding is required to do this. When a custom form is submitted by a website visitor, it is emailed to specified recipients (using the emailTo field below) AND it is placed into the database accessible via Form Submissions in system administration.
Each form has required hidden fields, core fields and custom fields:
REQUIRED HIDDEN FIELDS
Required hidden fields send data to the system that tells it how to process the form. The required hidden fields are as follows:
- fa
- This field should ALWAYS have a value of "USER.formSubmit" - which tells the system this is a custom form that needs to be processed.
- formType
- This field's value is used to classify and organize the form submissions made through this form. For instance, enter "newsletter" as the value if this form is being used to register for the newsletter; or enter "catalog request" as the value if this is a catalog request form. This value can later be used when looking up the form in Form Submissions so you can filter only certain forms.
- emailTo
- A comma delimited list of email addresses that will receive this form's contents upon submission
