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Form Creation 
To get started with Advanced Form generation, we will go through an example of creating a simple contact form. The form will consist of three fields. The person's name, email address and country. The country will be selected from a drop down lists of all countries.



The steps are:

  1.  Logon to the Administration
  2.  Select Create and Edit Forms
  3.  Create a new form
  4.  Create Name Field
  5.  Create Email field
  6.  Create Country field
  7.  Preview your form
  8.  Use the form

1. Logon to Administration


 

2. Select Create Forms from Menu


 

3a. Create a New Form Button 

This will list existing forms. Use the Create New Form button to start a new form shown below. On this form fill out the Form Name and press Add Record

 

 

3b. Create a New Form Button

When the record is added, additional buttons will appear.. Use the form Fields button.

 


 

4. Create a Field

Use the Form Fields button to create a new field.

This brings up a list of all fields (in this case none) and a button to create a new field.

4.a Create a New Field 

The form below allows you to create a new field. the field name will be personname and caption Please Enter Your Name. Fill in the values and the click Add A record.

 

 

5. Create Email field

Now use the Add new field button to create email field. Fill in the values:

Field Name: Email

Display Caption: Your Email Address 

Click add A record

6. Create Countries Field

Use the Add New Field but this time se the change button to select drop down type of field. In the blue boxes enter lists_wo which is a special keyword for countries.

 

 

 

7. Preview the Form

To view how the form will work, click the Preview contact form button at the bottom of the page.

You will see two text boxes and a drop down list of countries. 

 

 

 

8. Using the Form

 If you want to use the HTML in another application, simply copy and paste the HTML

If you want to use the form without having to save the HTML anyplace, simply type in afhform.asp?form=contactform