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Additional Actions for Forms in Freeway

Reply forms are great ways to get feedback from your website and to let your visitors send you their details so they can contact you for a quotation or to sign up to a newsletter.

To create the form, we recommend the PHP Feedback Form Action as the quickest and simplest method, see the KnowledgeBase article at http://www.softpress.com/kb/questions/115/. There is also a movie tutorial on how to set it up at http://www.softpress.com/support/tutorials/ (Episode 18).

Although Freeway offers all the basic tools for building a form, there are some additional Actions you may want to use to enhance or extend the functionality of your form. Below is a list of free Freeway Actions available and what they do.

MULTIPLE FORM SUITE (Pro only)
http://actionsforge.com/projects/view/24-multiple-form-suite

Freeway will "wrap" the entire page with a "form tag" when you use a form on the page - so you will need this Action if you are using more than one form on a page.

Note that it is not always obvious what is and isn't a form (such as PayPal buttons which are a type of form). Normally, if it has a "submit" button, it is a form.

If you are using the PHP Feedback Form Action on your page, you will need to select the additional form item (or the parent item that contains the additional form items) and apply the Multiple Form Action by going to Item>Actions and choosing Multiple Form.

VALIDATE FORM SUITE (Pro only)
http://actionsforge.com/projects/view/73-validate-form-suite

The PHP Feedback Form Action will "validate" the Name and Email fields of your reply form - ie, it will make sure that something has been entered into the Name field and also that the content in the Email field has an "@" character and ends with .com, etc.). If the visitor doesn't fill in these fields correctly, the form will not be sent. However, you can add other "required" fields on your form by using the Validate Form Suite.

A PDF is included in the download with the Action which gives full instructions on how to set it up.

FREEZE FORM (Pro only)
http://actionsforge.com/actions/view/64-freezeformaction

The width of Text field and Text area items are sized in a different way than normal items (they use values for the number of characters rather than the pixel width) - and this makes it difficult for Freeway to make the widths of these items look the same as when they are viewed in a browser. Apply the Freeze Form Action on each item to make them render more reliably in a browser.

Note that this Action also lets you alter the height of a Text field item (which can't be done in Freeway alone).

FORM ELEMENT STYLER (Pro only)
http://actionsforge.com/actions/view/60-form-element-styler

This Action is similar to the Form Element CSS Action, and it gives you lots of different ways to style the items on the form. Click on the "Demo" link to see examples and instructions.

FORM ELEMENT CSS (Pro only)
http://actionsforge.com/actions/view/146-form-element-css

This Action offers very similar styling options as the Form Element Styler options (with some differences). Click on the "Demo" link to see examples and instructions.

STATE/PROV LIST (Pro only)
http://actionsforge.com/projects/view/54-stateprov-list

If you want a popup on your form so a visitor can choose the US state or Canadian province where they live, this Action makes it very quick and simple. After it has been installed, you simply need to go to Insert>Action item and choose State/Prov List.

It also allows you to select a default location that is shown in browser before the visitor clicks on it.

COUNTRY LIST (Pro only)
http://actionsforge.com/actions/view/85-country-list

Just like the State/Prov List, this Action lets you add a Country List to your form. This list contains every country in the world.

The Action also lets you add up to 10 "favorite" countries at the top of the list (so the visitor only needs to choose from the top list rather than scroll through the entire list of countries). The country list itself can also be edited.

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