Web Forms

Create Web Form

Web forms are a way for you to collect data from your visitors by asking a series of questions in a variety of question formats. Creating a new web form is a simple process in the Boingnet editor. We have provided a number of quick toolbar items to assist in form creation. On the first toolbar line in the editor you will see links called Text Box, Text Area, Checkbox, Dropdown, Yes/No, a/b/c/d and Button.

Clicking each will popup a window instructing you what to do to insert this element.

Some elements allow you to indicate that the field is required. If required, checks are made at run time to ensure data is entered into that element prior to letting the client continue. For a web form, you must supply a Button element to allow your clients to submit data.

If a web form is created on a landing page, all collected data will be available for reporting. In addition, the admin can be alerted to this submitted data, the client can be sent a thank you email, and the client can be redirected to a thank you page.

Prefill Web Form Data

Prefilling of web from data is a nice way to assist your clients by filling in data you may already have for them. To prefill a text box, simply right click on a text box you have inserted and choose Text Field Properties.

Under the Value field, place the variable field name you want to prefill the text bx with (ie %Frst Name%)

Thank You Email

Once a client has filled out a web firm, you have the option to send them a personalized thank you email. If you would like to send this response email out automatically, click on the Thank You Email link.

The popup window will ask for a number of settings including the subject of the email and who its coming from.

In addition, you need to specify who the email is going to. The email can either goto an email you have provided in the data file for this client. Or it can be an email collected on this page. If you want the email to go to an address you have in the data file, place the text %Email% in the To: field. If you want the email to go to an address you have collected on the landing page, place the text |Email| in the To: field. The content of the email body is chosen from a drop down of templates from your template library. That email template can be personalized as well with variable inserts.

Redirect after submit

By default when a client submits a form, they are presented with a ‘Thank You’ popup and are left on the survey page. You have the option to redirect the user to another page after a form has been completed. This page can be another pURL page or a page on you corporate site. To redirect to a page after a form is submitted, click the Thank You Page link.

The popup window will ask where you want to redirect the user to. You can put in a full URL or for a pURL redirect, use the format %pURL%/page.