FP98: How to Submit Form Results to Multiple Files, People

ID: Q187249

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SUMMARY

In Microsoft FrontPage, you can save a file to two or more separate file locations or in two or more file formats. You can also send a file to multiple e-mail recipients or save different form fields in different locations. To accomplish any of these tasks, you need to use one or more custom confirmation pages that contain the same form field names as the original feedback form.


MORE INFORMATION

If you want to specify a single file and e-mail recipient for the results of a form, enter the information in the Form Properties dialog box. If you want to specify an optional second file to save the results to, click Options in the Form Properties dialog box. To send a file to multiple e-mail recipients, save different form fields in separate locations, or save the results in more than two files, follow these steps:

  1. Start FrontPage Editor and create your form. Add any custom fields you want.


  2. Create an additional page for each copy of the form data you want to save or send to a recipient in e-mail.


  3. Switch to the form you created in step 1 and copy the complete form. Select the form and then click Copy on the Edit menu. Note that you only need to copy the form from the original page in step 1. You do not need to copy any information outside of the form.


  4. Switch to one of the forms you created in step 2 and paste the form by clicking Paste on the Edit menu. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each page you created in step 2.


  5. Switch to the original form (step 1). Right-click the form and click Form Properties on the menu that appears. Fill in the File Name and Email Address boxes if you want.


  6. Click Options and then follow these steps:

    1. Click the Confirmation Page tab.


    2. Click Browse.


    3. Select the page you created in step 2.


    4. Click OK.




  7. If you want to save part of the data in the file or send part of it to an e-mail recipient, click the Saved Fields tab. Remove any fields you do not want to save in the results file.


  8. Repeat steps 5 through 7 for each forms page you created in step 2. This will create a "daisy chain" of custom confirmation pages.


  9. Create a new page containing your confirmation message and acknowledgment. Do not add a form of any sort to this page. At the bottom of the page, add a link to the page you created in step 1 and set this page, using the procedure in step 6, as the custom confirmation page for the last page in the "daisy chain."

    For more information about defining custom form field names, click the Index tab in FrontPage Help, type the following text
    Text Properties
    and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Text Properties dialog box" topic.

    For more information about creating a custom confirmation page, click the Index tab in FrontPage Help, type the following text
    Options for Registration
    and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Options for Registration Form Handler dialog box, Confirmation Page tab" topic.

    For more information about specifying what form fields you want to save, click the Index tab in FrontPage Help, type the following text
    saved
    and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Saved Fields tab, Options for Registration Form Handler dialog box" topic.

    For more information about what options are available for saving form data, click the Index tab in FrontPage Help, type the following text
    Form Properties
    and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Form Properties dialog box" topic.


Additional query words: 98 skip daisey daisy chain string multiple recipients 


Keywords          : fpedit 
Version           : WINDOWS:98
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: July 27, 1999