A form is a questionnaire used to collect data from people who visit your site. A form can contain fill-in text boxes, drop-down option lists, checkboxes, and radiobuttons. The Form Designer lets you create and customize forms for presentation on your site. Once you have begun to collect data, the Form Designer also lets you view and manage your data. Your Guestbook is an example of a form.

Creating Forms

To create a new form or modify an existing form click Forms at the top the Site Editor. From the Forms page you can also view and delete form data entries.

Placing a Form onto a Page

• To insert onto a Freeform page see Freeform Template Page Editor.
• To insert into a Page Field using the Java Field Editor see Field Editor.
• To insert into Maxlet HTML using the Advanced HTML Editor see HTML Editor.

To insert manually you must add a shorthand link to your field text or maxlet HTML. The format of the shorthand link you will need is shown below:

~formembed_mode_formname~

For example, if you have created a form named "requestinfo" and you want people to be able to fill in the form on one of your pages you would add the following to your field text or maxlet HTML:

~formembed_fill_requestinfo~