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Revision as of 14:00, 15 September 2009
Contact form pages are built a little differently than content pages. The Contact Form tool allows you to create a form with any number of fields of several different types and have that information emailed to you when a customer fills out the form. This is a very common thing to want to do and it shouldn't require much knowledge to set up, but it often does.
The VLW Contact Form tools takes the effort out of it and lets you concentrate on defining what information you'd like to receive. When you create a contact form, rather than it being a blank slate, a template is created for you. This template contains all the major data types you'll be able to use. You can delete all these elements (after looking at how they work), modify any or all of them, or use the form as is. Below is a description of the data types and what each looks like.
Contents
Data Types
Text
A text field is a place for single line of text, like a name or phone number. The two pieces of information you need to specify for a text field, are the label and the size.
This will result in an item on your form that looks like:
Text Area
A text area field is for more free-form, multi-lined data, like comments or special instructions. You'll need to specify the label, the width, and number of lines for a text-area field.
This will look like:
Slist/Llist
These items are for creating a list of things to choose from. The only difference between Slist (short list) and Llist (long list) is how they are displayed on the form. A short list will have all choices on a single line, and the long list will have a new line for each choice. See below:
Results in a form like this:
