Brushtail Content Management Guide

Email forms

Introduction

Editing an email form through content management allows you to design the form interface.

Click on the email form module in the content managment menu.

Adding a form introduction

An email form may begin with introductory text. To add this click on edit introduction icon.

The next screen will allow you to specify any introductory text/ instructions that you may want to have at the top of the

Adding a form fieldset

Before you can add form fields you must create one or more fieldsets.



The next screen will allow you to provide a legend for the fieldset. The field ordering will determine in what order the form fields are displayed in.

Adding a form field

Once a fieldset has been created, fields may be added to it by clicking on Addicon.

The "Add form field" form will display.

Field Label Descriptive label of field
Compulsory The form will not submit if compulsory fields are left empty
Field comment Ant comment text will appear directoy belo thw form field.
Field type (Test field, Text area, Drop down menu, Radio buttons)
Menu values ( Only applicable to Drop down menu, Radio buttons)

When a fieldset with custom ordering has a number of fields you can reposition fields in the form with the up and down arrows.

Editing a form

The email address field must be filled out. This requires one or more addresses which the email form will send messages to.

You can also specify which form fields will fill the Subject and Reply fields in the email. For example you could create a text field for users to enter their email adrress and this could be put in the Reply field.






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