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Please see link to example form.

I am producing a website for another business in the same sector and they want to add to their site a form that is very close to this.

Advise needed on the best way to do this either within Freeway or outside of freeway.

Plus it may be good for the client if when the form is emailed to them in a format that looks like a form and not just lines of text.

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Mike

http://www.thesterlinggroup.co.uk/umbrella_application


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I would use FormstoGo. I believe you can set up a styled HTML reply email that goes to the client and the person completing the form.

David

On 7 Feb 2013, at 19:22, “Mike Thornley” email@hidden wrote:

Advise needed on the best way to do this either within Freeway or outside of freeway.


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The only thing in this form that you could not do in Freeway with PHPFF or the new Send Form Action is the file upload. If that’s a requirement, then look carefully at Forms To Go. As far as the e-mail that is sent by the form to the client, you might need to look at a different solution to format the message more elaborately. You might want to look at Wufoo or another form hosting service, they might have a spreadsheet interface or another database approach that could make this easier to interpret for the client than everything jammed into an e-mail message body.

Walter

On Feb 7, 2013, at 2:22 PM, Mike Thornley wrote:

Please see link to example form.

I am producing a website for another business in the same sector and they want to add to their site a form that is very close to this.

Advise needed on the best way to do this either within Freeway or outside of freeway.

Plus it may be good for the client if when the form is emailed to them in a format that looks like a form and not just lines of text.

Regards
Mike

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Thanks - anyone using forms to go, would like to see a screenshot of what can be emailed back to the client from the applicant.

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Hi Walt

Just had a 15 minute play around with Wufoo - really cool as you Americans would say or as we say near Sheffield, cracking that lad…

Trouble is this website has changed completely since the agreed plan, and now the boss of bosses is wanting to know why the delay (I have been awaiting copy since November, but feel fingers may be pointing my way) and a complicated form was not part of the original spec and agreed plan.


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You can email back what you like. You could create an email temple using the Freeway email tools export that code to copy and paste back into FormstoGo. Then add in the data to merge.

Have a look at the manual here…
http://www.bebosoft.com/documentation/formstogo/

David

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Thanks - anyone using forms to go, would like to see a screenshot of what can be emailed back to the client from the applicant.

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Have you though about an entire database driven back-end system to work with this form?

I’d recommend this: http://www.formtools.org/

I’ve used this with many freeway sites and is very easy to implement once initially set up.

It allows file uploads, gives you the ability to download all your data into a CSV etc and you can customise HTML emails to both you and the client.

simples!


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I would agree with Walter - especially if you have some sensitive data flying about - and use a service like Wufoo http://www.wufoo.com/ - free trial available.

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