Confirmation Pages

[aojonesoa]

The form handlers included in Front Page 2000 works by putting a &quot;Confirmation Field&quot; on the Confirmation Form. When you do this, Front Page adds a comment in the HTML with specific verbiage &quot;<!webbot bot=....>&quot;. When the confirmation form is populated, this comment is replaced with text that the user had input on the original form.

What I need to do, is to retrieve this text and populate a <input type=&quot;hidden&quot;> field with it so that I can submit the confirmation form and POST this information to another server.

Since I know where this text is going to be every time, does anyone know how to retrieve it and populate an input box? Believe me, I've tried putting the comment in the Value of the input, that doesn't work. If anyone can help, that would be GREAT!!!

Thanks,
aojonesoa

 

[tinaalice]

Your talking geek talk.. but what I'm understanding you to say is..

That you want the info from the confirmation form to be sent to a file on another server?

Apart from making a custom confirmation form (looks more professional because you can configure the background for a start and make it fit in with the rest of the site) is this what you want to do.

Right click the submit button choose form properties click options and the tab 'file results' and enter the url of the page you want to send the results to..I've never tried that it will be interesting to see if it works.

hth Tina


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[aojonesoa]

That's a good idea, I'll try it.

I did make a custom confirmation form, but I would like to extract the text from it and POST it to another server.

Hey, what's this &quot;geek talk&quot; anyway?

:-(

 

[tinaalice]

OK... post.. you mean email?

ditto just choose the the email tab.. the results of the confirmation will be sent to the email address...

geek talk

&quot;...form is populated&quot;

have you tried it yet? Look at my crafted with frontpage set up... if you have a fp site submit it.. you can see how the form works..the info is sent to me via email and the info is also sent to a file on the web which can then be viewed... is this what you mean?

Tina

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[aojonesoa]

Haven't tried it yet, but will tonite.

I am creating an e-commerce website. The credit card authorization needs to have contact information and total amount POSTed to their secure server. I need to have the order detail either saved to a dbase or emailed to me. The problem I am having is that I can do either of these things, individually, but not both.

For example, I tried to send order detail info to me via email (or to a dbase), using standard FP2000 tools. The only way I can get the contact and total info to the other server is to submit another form with a POST. My thought was to use the Confirmation Form to perform this POST. However, the confirmation page options in Front Page only allow insertion of &quot;Confirmation Fields&quot;. These confirmation fields are text only when returned to the client and cannot be POSTed to the other server.

 

[tinaalice]

ok.. you want it to post twice?...in that case daisy chain it...

I think this is what you want.. databases are over my head..Do you want your form results to go to more than one email address?

hth Tina

Create your original form, then duplicate it as many times as needed, for our purposes we will just send to two email addresses.

Open an exisiting web or create a new web

File | New | Page | Form wizard... make your form

Save the page as &quot;page1.htm&quot;.
Go to html view and select the html for the form only click Copy.

Note: Only the form should be copied.

File | New | Page
in the new page go to html view and paste the form in then save the file as &quot;page2.htm&quot;

Create a new page for a confirmation message and acknowledgment call it &quot;confirmation.htm&quot;

Switch to &quot;page1.htm&quot; and follow these steps:

Right-click the form and click Form Properties on the shortcut menu.
In the Form Properties dialog box, click to select the &quot;Send to:&quot; option.
Specify a file name to send results to, in the &quot;File name:&quot; box.
Specify an email address in the &quot;Email address:&quot; box.
That will be first email address you want to send to.
Click Options and then follow these steps:

Click the Confirmation Page tab.
Click Browse.
Select &quot;page2.htm&quot;.
Click OK.

Double-click &quot;page2.htm&quot; to open it.
Right-click the form and click Form Properties on the shortcut menu.
In the Form Properties dialog box, click to select the &quot;Send to:&quot; option.
Specify an email address in the &quot;Email address:&quot; box.
That will be second email address you want to send to.
Click Options and then follow these steps:

Click the Confirmation Page tab.
Click Browse.
Select &quot;confirmation.htm&quot;
Click OK.

or repeat the steps above to send to another email address.

This will create a daisy-chain effect for your confirmation pages.




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