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Forms

In this section you can see the list of all available forms.

- Click Create form to create a new form.

- The Send to column shows whether user submissions are stored in a database or sent to the specified email address .

- Click Edit Form Options in the Command column to edit the properties of the form.

- Icons in the Command column allow you to preview the form , get the code to be inserted into a web-page , edit form options or delete a form with all related pages and fields .

Form Options

On this page form properties are displayed.

- Form name is the value used to identify the form in the admin area only.
- Submit to specifies the destination of form submissions (database and/ or email address)

Note: if you don't choose any email template or specify the wrong email address (multiple emails can be separated by commas), we do not guarantee that submissions will be sent to your mail box.

- Message displayed after submission is the alert message displayed after the form is submitted. If you want to redirect a user to a certain URL after the form is submitted, type the necessary URL in the"Redirect to" field. Otherwise the user is redirected to the form page.

- Button captions are the names of the navigation buttons on the pages of multi-page forms and Submit button.

Field Options

On this page field options for the selected form are displayed.

General
- Field name is the value used to identify a form's field
- Required mark. Checking the required mark option will only make the asterisk sign appear next to the field name informing user that this field needs to be filled in. In this case the user can potentially ignore the field leaving it blank though the form still can be submitted. In order to make certain field trully required, you'll also have to select the check rule in addition to checking the required mark. Note that the check rule option is only available for definite field types: Text, Password, Chechbox, Radio button, Select, Multiple select, Textarea, File upload.
- Page. If your form consists of several pages, you can select from a drop-down menu which page this field will be on
- Field type specifies the type of the field, which can be:

- Text is a common text field
- Password is meant for password entry (the value you enter in this field will be displayed in a form as an asterix string
- Checkbox is used to toggle one or several items in a form. All the values you enter for this field will be displayed in the form
- Radio button is the button that must have one selection chosen out of two or more choices.
- Select field displays all the values you indicate for this field, but allows only one value to be used at a time.
- Multiple select displays all the values you set for this field and allows multiple values to be used at a time.
- Textarea is a simple text box where the form users can input strings of characters, numbers or any other symbols.
- File upload field allows form users to upload files by means of the form
- Hidden allows to hide the field from the user's view
- HTML is used to create HTML values in the form
- Date is used to display dates

Default
- Default value is used as a value that will be present in the field by default

Field check
- Check rule specifies the rule to be used for this field. The possible values for this field are:
- Not empty means that the field must contain any value
- Numbers only allows only numbers in the field
- Letters only allows only letters in the field
- Email checks if the value in the field has an email format
- Chars interval specifies the length of input value for the field.

Field mail options
- Email template allows you to select an e-mail template that will be sent to the form users

Field's "Advanced" options

Field info
- Field name is the name of the field you edit
- Page title is the title of the page where the form is located

Layout
Here you can select the type of layout for the field

HTML
- Field color specifies the color of the field
- Caption style specifies the style that will be used to display the field's caption (i.e. you can enter a CSS style here, like below:

- color: red; font-style: oblique; font-weight: bold; font-family:Tahoma;
- font: 25px Courier; text-decoration:underline;

- Control style specifies the style that will be used for input fields, for instance:

- background-color: #ee0000; font-size: 26px; font-weight: bold; font-family:Tahoma;
width: 400px; height: 40px; width: 400px; height: 40px;

- Max length specifies the ultimate length of the field
- Size/Rows (depending on the selected field type) specifies the ultimate size or the ultimate number of rows for the field

Predefined Lists

Predefined list is the list of values which can be imported as items into the fields like "Checkbox", "Radio button", "Select", "Multiple select". For instance, the list of countries or the list of the email addresses of your support service. Click Add list to create new listing. Use the icons in the Command column to edit/delete lists.

Edit list
- List name specifies the name of the list
- Add items option allows you to add a number of items specified from a drop-down menu. You can add up to 20 items at a time, and then select 20 again to enter more items to your list.

Mail Templates

You can create templates which will be pre-populated with the values submitted by users. These submissions are sent to the email address specified in the Send to email field (in the properties of the form) or to the address specified in the email field.

Two types of tags are available: tags associated with forms and tags not associated with forms:

1. Tags not associated with forms:
- [form-name] is replaced by the form name
- [form-data] is replaced by the list "field-name :: field data"
- [ip-address] is replaced by user's IP-address

2. Tags associated with forms:
- [field-name#431bf861b7.b9d0be6e80#] is the name of a field
- [field-data#431bf861b7.b9d0be6e80#] is the value of the field

Select the form from the drop-down list of forms, and select the field from the list Page.Field - Field name. Click Name or Data at the bottom. This will insert the tag of the name or the field value into the template.

It is recommended that you use these templates for the forms which contain the fields that were used.

You should create templates when the form is completed.

Submissions

This page contains all user submissions that are stored in the database. In this case the value of the form property Submit to should be set to To database or To email & Database.

Submissions can be sorted by Form name and Date. To sort, click the appropriate link at the top of the column.

Use the icons in the Command column to view or delete submissions.