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Feedback as well as other forms can be an extremely powerful, helpful and
hectic addition to your FP Web. To create a whole form, it's easier to use the
FP Form Wizard found by clicking on "File" in the FP Editor, then "New," then
selecting "Form Page Wizard" from the list. It will ask you a series of
questions and create a custom page for you. But if you only need a few fields,
it's just as easy to add them yourself.
First, select the type of field you want by clicking on "Insert" in the FP
Editor, then selecting "Form Field", then selecting the type of field you want.
After this field is added, you have to decide how you'd like to receive the
output of that field. By right-clicking anywhere in the form, you can choose to
have it sent to a Web page, which will automatically be made for you, a text
file that you designate, or -- the most convenient option -- sent to an e-mail
account.
To do this, simply right-click anywhere in the form. Click the option "Form
Properties" that will open a window of the same name. As you will see, the
default is to have them sent to a Web page. Delete that and go to the "Send
Results By E-mail" box. Enter the e-mail address of your choice, and click "OK"
to close the box. When the box closes, it will tell you that the mail server is
not configured, or something like that, and will suggest that you remove the
"e-mail client." Click "No". After you publish your site to the server, it will
work correctly -- another magical job of the extensions.
Here's another mystery of FP. You have your form all set and uploaded, and you
decide to test it. You fill in the fields and click "Submit" but instead of
getting a confirmation page, you get a page telling you that an error occurred.
What to do now? Well, for some reason, if you log on to the root Web on the
server and re-calculate your hyperlinks, it usually helps.
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