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The Feedback Form allows webmasters to create interactive forms in HTML to collect data from web site visitors. When a site visitor completes and submits the form, the results will be sent to an e-mail address(es) of your choice (specified in the form HTML). Note: CGI functions are not available to our webmasters for security reasons.
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Webmasters can use the HTML on any page on their site.
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To collect information from site visitors, parents, staff members, etc. via the web and to have that information sent to an e-mail address. |
- It allows webmasters to create and customize interactive forms.
- It sends a site visitor to a "return" page, specified by the webmaster, after a form is submitted. The default is the MCPS home page if no page is specified.
- It sends information gathered in each complete form to an e-mail addresse(s) of the webmaster's choosing.
Note: The mailer is a custom application created by Web Services which runs on MCPS web servers only. The ACTION parameter is always http://coldfusion.mcps.k12.md.us/
cfms/webteam/mailer/mailer.cfm. CGI scripts will not be processed by our MCPS servers.
The following parameters must be specified within the HTML for the the mailer to function.
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recipient: Specifies the e-mail address that will receive the data entered from each form submitted. In the sample forms, the recipient is webmaster_email@example.org. You may enter additional e-mail addresses by separating them with a semi-colon. No blank spaces or special characters (!,?,%,$ etc.), please!
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returnpage: Specifies the URL of a page to return to after successful submission of a form. The default is http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org, as shown in the sample forms.
subject: Specifies the subject line on the e-mail sent from the mailer. The default is "No Subject Specified." - listtype: Specifies how the e-mail you are to receive will be formatted. There are four choices for this parameter:
- default: produces a labelled list
- tablist: produces a tab delimited list without field labels
- commalist: produces a comma separated list without field labels
- crlist: produces a list separated with hard return codes, no labels
lstcheck: Lists all the checkboxes and/or radio buttons on the form, regardless of if they are selected or not, in the e-mail generated by the mailer.
The text in this field must be a comma separated list of the names of any checkboxes and/or radio buttons in your form. If the form lacks this field and is submitted without one or more of the checkboxes checked, the mailed output will not indicate that the checkbox or radio button was on the form in the first place. These particular results would not be useful for importing into another application as the fields would not match. -
senderemail: Specifies the e-mail address of the person who filled out the form.
The default sender of the form mailer is 'formmailer@mcpsmd.org.' You may include a text box for those filling out the form to include their e-mail address. The field name must be 'senderemail.' The e-mail generated by the mailer will take whatever value the site visitor supplies and place it in the 'From' field of the e-mail. No blank spaces or special characters (!,?,%,$ etc.) are allowed.
You can include any standard form elements on your page. See form resources for specifics of syntax for each type of form element.
- Form Tag
- Text Entries
- Check Boxes
- Radio Buttons
- Drop down option boxes
- Action Buttons
First consult the documentation on this page and the form resources. Then e-mail questions to Web Services at webmaster@mcpsmd.org.
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