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pageoneresults -> RE: Confirmation Page (10/30/2002 20:45:45)
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There is a very simple way to do this if you know your way around in preview and html mode. Open your contact form or whatever you have it called. Do a save as and give it a name like...
contact-confirmation.htm
I' ve been building FP forms for over 7 years and know just about every little tip they don' t tell you in the books! With your contact-confirmation page open, double click on your first form field. A Text Box Properties dialog will pop up and the Name will already be selected (highlighted). Control c to copy the name. Close the Text Box Properties dialog box.
Now insert your cursor in front of that same form field that you just copied the name from. Then go to...
Insert > Web Component > Advanced Controls > Confirmation Field
It will ask you to name the field. Control v to paste the name that you copied from the Name field of the Text Box Properties. You' ll now have that Name appear like this in front of the form field...
[CompanyName]
You' ll notice that you cannot edit that as if it were text. This is an FP webbot and when you double click it, you can then edit the property, there is only one and it should use the same exact Name that the form field uses right down to the case. The webbots are case sensitive.
Next thing you do is delete that form field that you just inserted a confirmation field for. Click once on that new confirmation field, control c to copy, then control v to paste right in front of your next form field. Double click the form field, control c and copy the Name, double click your confirmation field, control v to paste the Name.
Go through that same process for each form field until you have eliminated all fields and have nothing but confirmation fields.
Next thing you want to do is go into html view and strip out the <form> tags from the save as routine. Remember, we saved the contact form which was enclosed in <form></form>. The confirmation page does not require a form element.
To see this all in action, you can test it out on the SEO Consultants Directory. We have one page using the FP confirmation. All the others have been converted to asp using a very similar technique to the FP confirmation without webbots.
Here is the Contact Us page...
[url=" http://www.seoconsultants.com/contact.htm" ]Contact[/url]
Here is the Confirmation page...
[url=" http://www.seoconsultants.com/contact-confirmation.htm" ]Contact Confirmation[/url]
Go ahead, give it a try. You can enter Testing for all the fields and it will let you by. Just make sure you have the minimum number of characters for those fields marked with an asterisk.
When you are looking at the confirmation page without going through the process of filling out the contact form, you will see bold areas that contain the Name of the Confirmation Fields. They don' t appear like that if you go through the submit process. That' s why you may want to test it out and see how it works. I' ve totally customized the process of confirmation pages using FP.
The last thing you need to do open your contact.htm page, right click within the form area and go to...
Form Properties > Options > Confirmation Page
Browse to that new contact-confirmation.htm page and select it. Now you are ready to go. Make sure you set all of your other preferences for your form including how email results are formatted. I' ve found using the plain HTML option is probably the cleanest.
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