[Pro] Submitting a table

Hi I am just wondering if there is a way I can have a table on the site that can be filled in and submitted to and email address or several. I want it to be just like the table I can put into the site but I want it to look like that when it goes through to email.

Another feature I would like if possible but not major is when you go to the page with the table there is a drop down and the table changes to a different person so that when it’s submitted it only goes to them.

I am trying to create online rota’s that can be sent. Sorry if this is confusing


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This is all do-able. First off, what you’re describing as a “table” should be referred to as a “form”. This may be one reason why you’re having trouble finding the right way forward.

Freeway includes a rich set of form-building tools, and there are a couple of Actions that will let you finish your objective. The PHP Feedback Form Action will create a form handler application in PHP and upload it to your server. This handler will receive the contents of the form that your visitor filled out and submitted, and send those on to you in an e-mail. There is a sidecar Action called PHP Feedback Form Recipients List, which will make the picking list of possible recipients for you. Both of these are available for free at http://actionsforge.com (along with hundreds of other Actions).

Since this is your first time making a form, I recommend that you open up your Freeway user manual and locate the relevant chapter. There are a lot of tiny choices that you need to make while constructing your form, and they each stack up to make the final thing work or not. Take it slowly, and you should have a good experience.

Walter

On Feb 21, 2014, at 6:42 AM, Jack wrote:

Hi I am just wondering if there is a way I can have a table on the site that can be filled in and submitted to and email address or several. I want it to be just like the table I can put into the site but I want it to look like that when it goes through to email.

Another feature I would like if possible but not major is when you go to the page with the table there is a drop down and the table changes to a different person so that when it’s submitted it only goes to them.

I am trying to create online rota’s that can be sent. Sorry if this is confusing


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but I want it to look like that when it goes through to email.

This is the one part that you cant do with the PHP Feedback Form action.

Without some code surgery to the action the recipient will not get a form submission that looks like a table. It will be structured but not in looks.

David


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I completely missed that point. My mistake. You can put the data back together in a table format by carefully naming the fields. Use a letter for each column, and a number for each row, so you would have the fields:

a_1 b_1 c_1 d_1
a_2 b_2 c_2 d_2

etc. As long as you lay this out in a table in Freeway, the fields will appear in row x column order in the e-mail, like this:

a_1: foo
b_1: bar
c_1: baz
d_1: blarg
a_2: blooey

etc.

A simple PHP script on your Mac could put these back into a tabular format, but the mail from PHP Feedback form will only ever send them in their serialized form.

Walter

On Feb 21, 2014, at 1:06 PM, DeltaDave wrote:

but I want it to look like that when it goes through to email.

This is the one part that you cant do with the PHP Feedback Form action.

Without some code surgery to the action the recipient will not get a form submission that looks like a table. It will be structured but not in looks.

David


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I’ll try these solutions and try and get to you as soon as possible, thanks guys!


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