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FP Techniques > Working with Forms in FrontPage

Here are some ways to go above and beyond the standard FrontPage form.

Forms and Email
Lots of people come to this site searching for a way to make their FrontPage forms send email.  The secret is that FrontPage server extensions must be configured to use a specific mail server.  Quality hosting services like OutFront or Applied Innovations
already have this configuration done for you.   If your host doesn't have this capability ready to go then you might want to consider switching hosts.  If you must stay with your existing host then you can refer the server administrator here.

Customizing the Subject Line of Your Form Email Message.
You can have each of your forms send an email with a specific subject line.  Right click inside form > form properties > options > email results > subject line.

Getting the Right Reply-To Address
Also of note, you can set the reply to line in this dialog to allow you to hit the reply button and send an email to an address inputted into the form. Just put put the name of the form field that will have the email address into the reply-to box.

Sending Form Output to Multiple Email Addresses
FP doesn't allow you to enter more than one email address per form in the form properties dialog, but there is a way to send your form output to as many email addresses as you like.

Create a separate copy of the form for each recipient. The only difference in the forms should be the email address to send to.  Set the confirmation page of the first form to be the second form. Set the confirmation page of the second form to be the third, and so on.

The user clicks the submit button once and goes directly to the ultimate confirmation page. The user does not see the other forms but all of them are submitted.

Getting More Info than Meets the Eye
It's easy to find out important information about the users submitting your form without asking them.  Here's a list of the kinds of info you can get your form to transmit with a few mouse clicks in FP.

  • Time the form was submitted
  • Date the form was submitted
  • The type of browser used by the person submitting the form
  • The remote computer name of the person submitting the form
  • The User ID of the person submitting the form

To configure your form to transmit this kind of information, right click inside the form.  Choose "Form Properties."  Click on the "Options" button.  Click the "Saved Fields" tab.  Then check the items of interest under "additional information to save."

Formatting the Output
To change the way the output of a form looks, right click inside the form.   Choose "Form Properties."  Click the "Options" button.   Click on either the "File Results" or the "E-mail Results" tab depending on whether or not your form sends mail.  Select a formatting style from the format drop down select box.

  


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