Creating fill-in form

[sage]

Does anyone know of a way to create a fill-in form for a customer to fill out and then submit to us? We are going to offer a service to customers, but would like them to fill out a form that would provide us with some information that we could then respond to.

Thanks for any ideas.

Lin

[Patti]

I made this form a while back. I was just playing around, so it may need some work. I put it in the product description, and I put "This is a special order item. Please use our quotation form to request pricing." for the Add to Cart Replacement Text.

It's not something I've ever used. I was just messing around one day.

<form name="eMail" method="post" action="emailform.asp">

<p><br><strong>Please complete and submit this form to receive your quote.</strong></p>

<p><br><strong>Which size would you like?</strong></p>
<p><font color="#333399"><input type="radio" name="Size"
value="Small"></font>Small <font color="#333399"><input type="radio"
name="MessageType" value="Medium" checked></font>Medium<font color="#333399">
<input type="radio" name="MessageType" value="Large"></font>Large<font
color="#333399"> <input type="radio" name="MessageType" value="Extra Large"></font>Extra Large
</p>
<p><strong>What color would you like?</strong></p>
<p><font color="#333399"><select name="Subject" size="1">
<option selected>Red</option>
<option>Green</option>
<option>Yellow</option>
<option>Purple</option>
</select> </font>Other:<font color="#333399"> <input type="text" size="26"
maxlength="256" name="Color"> </font></p>
<p><strong>If you would like to have your set personalized, please enter the text in the space provided below:</strong></p>
<p><font size="2" color="#333399"><textarea name="Comments" rows="7" cols="48"></textarea>
</font></p>
<p><strong>Please tell us how to contact you:</strong></p>
<table width="341">
<tr>
<td width="287"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Name </b></td>
<td width="257"><font color="#333399"><input type="text" size="35"
maxlength="256" name="realname"> </font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="287"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>E-mail </b></td>
<td width="257"><font color="#333399"><input type="text" size="35"
maxlength="256" name="email"> </font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="287"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Telephone</b> <b>Number </b></td>
<td width="257"><font color="#333399"><input type="text" size="35"
maxlength="256" name="phone"> </font></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><font color="#333399"><input type="submit" value="Submit Request for Quote">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<input type="reset" value="Clear Form"></font></p>

<input type="hidden" name="email_From" value="me@mydomain.net">
<input type="hidden" name="email_To" value="me@mydomain.net">
<input type="hidden" name="email_Subject" value="Request for Quotation">
<input type="hidden" name="email_ThankYou" value="Thank you for your email.">
<input type="hidden" name="email_Redirect" value="http://www.mydomain.com">
</form>

[sage]

Thanks - I got the form to work, but since I tested it from the same IP address 5 times, I got an error message telling me I had reached my limit for form submission from this address. I see from way earlier posts that others had this problem but that it was supposed to be addressed in V5, which hasn't been released yet. Has anyone found a workaround?

Lin

[jjgilz]

How do you integrate this form into a page? I'm not that good at this stuff but would like to have a customer feedback form. Anyone out there willing to provide a step-by-step?
Thanks!
Jeff

[zenas72]

Email forms in Volusion are easy:

1) Log in as Admin and go to the Design Tab
2) Select "Website Text"
3) Scroll down to the bottom - Sample Articles, our Volusion site had an Article 83 that was already there as a Sample Email Form
4) Once you open Article 83 select "Add" and "Save" so it duplicates it... now you have a page with email capabilities.
5) You can add new fields by copying the existing one's and renaming them so you can collect whatever data you want
6) Then edit the site to point to the new article page -- or you can copy the code to the "contact us" page so you have it integrated vs. a separate page...

an example from our site is: http://www.centurianhealth.com/category-s/72.htm


What I don't know is how to make certain fields required, so a user is prompted to fill in that data if they try to submit the form without it - does anyone know how to accomplish that?

Good luck,

Tony

[Janet Eccles]

Just tried it. Sent myself a test e-mail. Hope it works.

[fobes]

Hello, I already have some forms on my Volusion store, but I would like to create one that is accessed through a link on a product page that carries the product name over to the form data.

Eg, like in the examples above - you could have a 'Request Quote' link that takes the customer to the form page which already has the product name filled in, so they just need to enter their personal details.

I hope I've explained that clearly enough, and hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

Thanks!

PS

What I don't know is how to make certain fields required, so a user is prompted to fill in that data if they try to submit the form without it - does anyone know how to accomplish that?

Try adding something like this in the Form code (works if using FormMail.pl, not sure about Volusion examples) -

<input name="required" value="email,realname,message" type="hidden">

Where value = the names of the required fields.