Form with Printable Results Page

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M. Anderson

Here is what I would like to accomplish.

I want a form where it has a list of football games that users can pick the
winner that they want with the check box form component. Easy to do.

What I need help with is having that data that they select(the teams), show
up in a good looking conformation form that they can print out.

Is there a good tutorial out there for something like this? Any direction
would be greatly appreciated. Unfortunately I don't have a good knowledge of
any kind of programming language such as java, or asp.

Thanks
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Create a custom confirmation page using the Insert | Web Components | Confirmation Field. See FP
Help.

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Sparky Polastri

M. Anderson said:
Here is what I would like to accomplish.

I want a form where it has a list of football games that users can pick
the
winner that they want with the check box form component. Easy to do.

What I need help with is having that data that they select(the teams),
show
up in a good looking conformation form that they can print out.

Is there a good tutorial out there for something like this? Any direction
would be greatly appreciated. Unfortunately I don't have a good knowledge
of
any kind of programming language such as java, or asp.

Thanks
Click to expand...

What you want is the confirmation component (or something like that MS
changes the name around for various releases of FP). Basically, it sets a
variable as the form field name, then spits it out for the user in the HTML
page. The point of these is you can make a nice "thank you" page that has
these components in it that display what the user put in.... and can easily
be adapted to allow the user to print.

Do this:

Make a "thank you" page, or a confirmation page that looks nice and prints
nice. Set it in the "confirmation page" field in the form properties.

Go into your form, right-click on all the form fields in turn, find out the
form field name. (i.e. fname, lname, field1, T2, etc) These must be
EXACTLY correct with case and everything. In the case of text boxes, it
will be what the user types, in the case of Check boxes, radio buttons and
pull-downs it will be one of the values (so it might not be all that
friendly).

Next, go to your thank you page again, start adding the confirmation
components, one for each field. Use the EXACT name from your form field
names.

Test.

The confirmation components pull the data from the form submission and
dynamically populates the fields for the confirmation page. (Which the user
can then print.)

For more complicated solutions, look into ASP to handle your form.
 
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