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The Object Pallette has several different pallettes, Forms is one of
them. It includes a complete collection of form elements and tags. (These
elements are also accessible through the Insert menu.)
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The most common use of a form is to have the user email some information
to the owner of the page or the department. At UIC this can most easily
be done with FormMail.
For complete information on FormMail at UIC, see the FormMail
Users' Guide.
The following are a few key points to creating a form for use with FormMail:
- Set the form METHOD to POST and the form ACTION to http://www.uic.edu/htbin/formmail/FormMail/path_of_config_file
where path_of_config_file is the UNIX path to the configuration
file.
Below is the Property Inspector for the above form.
- Name the form and all the form elements to something meaningful. You
will use these names in your FormMail configuration file.
- For form items such as radio buttons (where only one can be selected),
use the same name for each radio button but give each a different value
for "checked value".
Below is the Property Inspector for the first of the radio buttons above.
- Write your configuration file as you create your form. Refer to the
FormMail
Users' Guide for more details on creating configuration files. Or,
better still, use our Evaluation Form
for a working example.
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