FP2002 Form Confirmation Page

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Ray Mooney

Using a FP Form Template, FP automatically generates a Confirmation Page
(It's ugly and what gets emailed is ulgy). I would like to see, and email,
something better looking. Can I access this to change how it looks? How do
you do that? Is there a better (easy way) to provide a better looking
EMAILED set of information?
Thanks in adavance for any help :)
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

1. You can create a custom confirmation, using Insert | Components |
Confirmation Field, then after saving the page, under form property point to
this page.

2. After the format of the email, what you see it what you get. If you can't
work with this, then you have forgo using the FP form handler, and instead
using a server-side script to process your form data, etc.

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Ray Mooney

Help me understand better....

1) I found Confirmation Field .... It asks for "name of Form field to
Confirm"? Do I enter the field-name from my form here?
2) When you say "point to this page" do you mean point to my Form Page or
create a new page to point to.

..... sorry if this sounds basic......

Thanks....
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Your really need to have both the form open and the new page that you will
be using for your confirmation page, as you insert each confirmation field,
you need to copy the name that you assigned to the form field on the form
exactly as written.

Then once you have the confirmation page completed, open the form in FP, go
to form properties, then options, then confirmation tab, and enter the name
of your custom confirmation page. It is best to do this with the
confirmation page in the same folder as the form.

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Ray Mooney

THANKS for the help! I have a good looking confirmation page working with
your help.

How would recommend that I start with trying to get a better looking email
format? INquiring minds what to know....

Again THANKS for the quick responce and great directions!
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

You will need to learn to custom write a form handler using a server-side
script language such as ASP, ASP.net, PHP, etc. to handle the processing of
the form data to email and displaying a confirmation page, as you will not
be using the FP Form Handler, so you will not be able use any of the
features/option the FP Form Handler provides, such as fairly easy to create
custom confirmation page, write to a file, etc.

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