Title: FrontPage Forms Wizard
1FrontPage Forms Wizard
2Be sure
- That you are connected directly to your FrontPage
site on the server (not just on the local
machine) - Be sure that the Page view is selected
- Go to FilegtNewgtPage and choose Form Page Wizard
- There, youre half done!
3The Wizard
With this, you mostly just click Next to get
you through the process
4Start Adding Items
When you click Add youll be given a list of
stuff to add IMPORTANT! Anything you add using
the Wizard can be changed later.
Click Add
5Start Adding Items
Select your first category of information
Lets assume that you are getting information on
a person. Lets bet that Contact Information
will capture some of the info you want
6Lets Select Contact Information as the First
Category of Information that we want
The type of input called contact information
is selected
We can edit the question that the visitor will
get here or we can do it later.
7Customizing the First Box
You can uncheck and check boxes as you need
The wizard is going to group Input into
variables and you Can control the name of
variables Here if you want
8One Possible First Box
Ive said I want first and last name separately
and Ive done away with some of the things like
title, organization and fax Ive also entered a
new base name that Im calling BaseInfo
Now Ill click Next
9Add More?
This looks familiar. Its the same as the first
dialogue box we saw except that it contains the
info we just asked for in the last dialogue box
10If We Need More Info, We Just Click Add
11Add More Questions Via the Wizard
How would you collect more information
automatically? You guessed it! Click on
another category. Notice that you can pull the
right bar down to see more possibilities.
12Well gather some personal information using the
Wizard
We can change this statement later so well not
fuss about it now
13Choosing More Questions
We already have some of this information well
uncheck Name
14Choosing More Questions
Name is unchecked. Well ask for Age, tell it
we want Age entered as years old and also
ask for Sex (gender) and ID Number
Click Next
15Add as Much as You Need
You can click the Add button as many times as
you need. Well click it once more and add a
paragraph where well ask the respondent to tell
us something
16Adding a Place for Person to Write Something
Choose paragraph
Change the question if you want
17Changing the Question
Changed question
Click Next
18The Paragraph Needs a Holder
Were told that were putting In a scrolling text
box with no Length restrictions
We must give a name to the place that will hold
the Visitors comments
19Naming
Enter name and click Next
20Finished Adding
Were done. Just click Next.
21Presentation Options
Well accept the defaults here
Click Next
22Output Options
Well accept this default, Save results to a
web page, knowing that we can change
that decision later.
Notice name of file where the results will be
placed
Click Next
23Sit Back and Watch
Click Finish
24The Raw Form
You can edit any of the text
25A Little Editing
New title
New explanation
Sex changed to Gender
You can either edit or delete the bottom stuff
26Editing
You can edit any of The text just dont Type
inside the boxes!
27Our Two New Files
Because we didnt save as, FrontPage saved the
form as new_page_1.htm
formrslt.htm is the file FrontPage created to
hold results
28Preview in Browser
Click on preview in browser button to test
29John Doe Fills Out Form
When John hits the Submit Form Button, the
info Will go to the formrslt.htm file
30Confirmation Page
John immediately sees a confirmation that
his submission has been sent
31And We Get the Results
Neat!