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From: whattaconcept on 29 Jan 2010 14:55 When I made a site with a form, in the "design" mode it shows the email recipient intended...when in preview mode, it says "WEBBOT-SELF"...when published, it gives me _vti_bin/shtml.exe/form%20Page.htm. HOW do I get this to send the form results to the intended email recipient?
From: Ronx on 29 Jan 2010 15:23
You set the recipients address in form properties - in design view, right click anywhere in the form and choose form properties. Complete the property sheets. Note that when the page is published the recipients email; address is open to view by all and sundry (including spammers) in View Source. In design view and Preview you should NOT be seeing WEBBOT-SELF. In the Design pane and preview pane you should see the form fields and submit button. The form's action should NOT be visible. In Code view the action should be WEBBOT-SELF. There is a further webbot comment within the form (bot="Save-results" or similar). This comment contains parameters that describe how the results should be assembled, the email address to send them to, and any file(s) the results should be saved to. If you view source in Preview, the form's action will normally be action="_derived/nortbots.htm" unless you are editing on a server. When published, the action changes to _vti_bin/shtml.exe/form%20Page.htm on a Unix server. The %20 indicates a space in the file name, which may cause problems. Remove all spaces from file and folder names to avoid problems. The recipients email address is in the comment contained in the form, which is parsed by shtml.exe on the server. If your host has not set up the email transport on the FrontPage extensions the email will not be sent, otherwise it should be sent. -- Ron Symonds Microsoft MVP (Expression Web) http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread. "whattaconcept" <whattaconcept(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7494A5B0-43F7-43F0-A63B-35A78435EEEE(a)microsoft.com... > When I made a site with a form, in the "design" mode it shows the email > recipient intended...when in preview mode, it says "WEBBOT-SELF"...when > published, it gives me _vti_bin/shtml.exe/form%20Page.htm. > > HOW do I get this to send the form results to the intended email > recipient? |