Take another look at ActionsForge. There are two different versions of
this Action. One is only usable within Freeway 3 and lower, the other
is for 4 and greater. I suspect, particularly based on the suffix of
the file, that you have the former. If you click on the page somewhere
empty, look in the Actions palette for the version number of the No
Form Action. You’ll see this number in the lower-right corner of the
palette when that tab is selected.
Here’s how to get the next version. First, in your document, remove
all vestiges of the Action from your page. Delete the Action-item that
you drew on your page, and then, while nothing on the page is
selected, click the (x) in the tab for No Form in the Actions palette.
In the Finder, click on your username in the sidebar of any window,
and then click on the Library sub-folder. Navigate to Application
Support / Freeway 5 / Actions / General and remove the existing
Multiple Forms Suite file. (Put it in the trash.)
Download Multiple Forms 2.0, and you should find that you can install
it with a double-click.
Once you have it installed, re-apply No Form to the page, then select
an HTML box that encloses your form elements. A table is the best
choice for this, although you can also nest your freehand-drawn
elements within another element; either by grouping them, or by
drawing another box, sending it behind the form, and then using the
Site pane in Page mode to drag the form elements and associated text
elements into that larger box as nested children.
(Opinionated Sidebar)It’s always a good idea to lay out your forms
using a table. I like to use two columns, and as many rows as you have
fields, plus one for the submit button. This way your form has a
semantic structure to it, where the label and the field it belongs to
share a row. Short of using the real tag for this (the label tag),
which Freeway doesn’t provide, there’s no better way to ensure that a
visually disabled person is going to be able to make sense of your
form when they use assistive technology like a screen reader. (/
Opinionated Sidebar)
Once you have all of your form elements contained within a single HTML
element, you can apply the Multiple Form Action to that parent
element. In the Actions palette, you will see a crude simulation of
Freeway’s normal Page / Form Setup dialog. Within the Action palette,
you need to duplicate anything that you set up for the form, since
Form Setup is ignored when the No Form Action is applied to the page.
So if you have to set a bunch of hidden fields for formmail.pl, then
do so using the Hidden FIelds controls in the Actions palette. If you
have to set the Action of your form to /cgi-bin/formmail.pl or
whatever, then do so in the Action field in the Actions palette.
Now as far as the SSS Action goes, you might want to try just applying
the Action to the box where you added your SSS instance, and leaving
all the Multiple Form controls alone. I think that SSS simply looks
outward from itself in the page, and grabs and rewrites the very first
form tag it encounters. As long as SSS runs after Multiple Form, you
shouldn’t need to set anything.
Walter
On Feb 21, 2011, at 12:55 AM, Angela Weber wrote:
From what I’ve read in the forums I should be able to select one of
my form items and apply the Multiple Form action to it. They only
way I was able to get it to show up at all was to install the really
old action and even then it only showed up under the Insert Menu/
Action. I can’t get it to show up in the Item Menu/Action. I tried
downloading the action again. Quitting the program and restarting.
Reinstalling the action. I think there’s something wrong with the
action since it didn’t even have the correct icon when I downloaded
it. Does anyone have a good file to send me?
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