Submitting forms to email

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Tessa Ford

When a visitor to a site clicks on Submit to place their
order and they then see their confirmation page, if they
have entered something incorrectly, they click to go back
to fix it.

But how can we eliminate the first form that was
automatically emailed to the recipient? Is this possible
or is it something that the recipient has to put up with?
 
J

Jim Buyens

Normally, if there's an error, FrontPage won't send the
message.

Have you by any chance set up a multi-page sequence in
order to update a database and send mail from the same
submission? In such a case, it's possible that the first
page could succeed (and, say, send the mail) and then the
second page fails.

I don't believe there's any around this other than to
program the whole process in ASP. For more info, browse:

Updating a Database and Sending Mail from One Form
http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=54

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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Thomas A. Rowe

Not possible when using the FP Form Handler, as the form data has already been sent by the time the
user sees the confirmation page. You would need to use a custom written server-side script to
process the form.

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A

Andrew Murray

The confirmation form comes up as confirmation of the sent message, not a 'check
and go back if wrong' page.

It shows you the information after it has been sent. Frontpage does not have a
feature like you are talking about - it only has field validation e.g. if you
have a 'required' field, then you have to make it 'required' under the form field
properties then when the user clicks submit, a dialogue will pop up saying 'the
field [fieldname] is required but has not been completed, please enter a
response..." (to that effect).
 
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