No data in submitted email form.

[Jiml]

Up to a couple of months age, my submitted email form were working just
fine. Now all I get is a blank email message. I thought it was the website
provider, so I tried another host. Same thing.

I tried 2 ways of send out the email forms.

First was the standard "Send Form to email" in the Form Properties box. I
get an error that the website does not support email.. but it does..

Second way was to use the custom script box and use the "mailto:.."
option.. After I publish the form. I tested it and all it does is open my
Outlook Express email program with no data. No form field data either. This
was the way that I was using for well over a year with no problems. Now this
doesn't work anymore.

Anyone got and ideas of what is going on?

Am using FP03 v11 with all the latest patches


Jim

 

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Up to a couple of months age, my submitted email form were working just
fine. Now all I get is a blank email message. I thought it was the website
provider, so I tried another host. Same thing.

Well, at least you can rule that out.

I tried 2 ways of send out the email forms.

First was the standard "Send Form to email" in the Form Properties box. I
get an error that the website does not support email.. but it does..

That's a common message youll get when you're working on a local disk based
(or even some server based webs) it's more about your local machine than
the destination machine. you can safely ignore the message and don't let
frontpage "help" you by removing the recipient. ;-)

Second way was to use the custom script box and use the "mailto:.."
option.. After I publish the form. I tested it and all it does is open my
Outlook Express email program with no data. No form field data either. This
was the way that I was using for well over a year with no problems. Now this
doesn't work anymore.

You'd have to assign the values of the form field to the &body part of the
mail to link.
this isn't really a great way to go since you're relying on the user's
machine to do the work for you.

Anyone got and ideas of what is going on?

I think you should right click the form in your local copy, select form
properties, make sure you've got the right email address in there, hit
options, saved fields and make sure the fields you want to have the values
sent for are indeed listed. you could click the button to include all.

HTH