Forms for Newbies

Article ID: KB101358

If you're new to FrontPage, web sites, and forms, you might be reading these tutorials and not know where to start. This quick guide is especially written for you.

1. First, here are some of the basic types of forms that will be easiest to set up:
   • Comments/feedback form that emails you and/or stores information in an Excel-type file
   • Contact form or information request form that emails you

   What you shouldn't expect to be able to do without some advanced training:

   • A form that submits information into a database (e.g., registration forms, product forms, and the like)
   • A login form or password-protection form
   • Any type of ecommerce form (collecting credit card information, etc.)
      
2. After deciding what kind of form you'd like to make, you'll have to make sure that your web hosting service allows form processing with the FrontPage components. Ask your hosting provider if they have FrontPage Server Extensions and double-check to make sure that FrontPage forms will be processed correctly.
3. Now, you're ready to build your form. Take a look at the creating forms tutorial. If you need more guided assistance, see our sample form projects in the Guided Assistance section, where we take you through how to create a basic comments form, a contact form, and more. A few notes about some of the options you'll want to be sure to set:
   1. Be sure to set the name of the form fields by modifying the form field properties.
   2. For the form properties, you may want to leave the default setting alone, which saves your results to a file name called "form_results.csv" in your "_private" folder. If you want the form to also email you the submitted information, add an email address as well.
   3. Click the "options" button in the form properties window and click the "Email Results" tab. Here, you may add a subject line for the email. Call it something like "Results from xxx form."
   4. Click the "Saved Fields" tab and delete submit button field. If you haven't named the field, it might be named something like "B1" or "I1."
   5. In the "Saved Fields" tab, you may also change the date and time formats, and also decide if you want to save the browser type and IP Address ("Remote Computer Name").
4. Publish your web site to get your form online, and test it out.
5. If you kept the default setting to save results into "_private/form_results.csv," you can view the form results by opening your web site live in FrontPage, opening the _private folder, and double-clicking on the form_results.csv file. The file will open usually within Excel (or sometimes in FrontPage as a text file), although you may right-click on the file and choose what program you wish to view it in.

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