Recently, we added a new feature to checkbox, radio button, and select list fields that allows you to make these fields unique. There are many practical uses for this.
For example, say you have 50 seats available for a charity dinner. You could make a checkbox field with all of the seat numbers on it, letting users purchase one or more seats (use a select list or radio button field if you want to limit them to one seat instead of letting them choose multiple seats). Each time the form is submitted, any seats selected will be removed from the list. This prevents the same seat from being reserved by two different users.
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When creating event registration forms or contest and promotion forms you may need a way to limit the number of submissions you recieve. We have written about this before but it helps to get a refresher on some of our “hidden” features that sometimes aren’t always obvious when building your forms.
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Recently I wrote a blog post on How to Add Field Variables to Confirmation & Notification E-mails. One thing I forgot to mention is that you can also add these variables to the subject line of those e-mails the same way.
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We will be migrating the FormSpring site and application to a new hosting platform on Sunday, June 21st from 1:00am – 2:00am Eastern time. During this window we expect less than 5 minutes of actual downtime. With any downtime a maintenance message will be displayed when viewing a form or using the application.
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You can use one payment option, such as PayPal, on your order form, or you can use two or more payment options. Each payment option will need to be set up separately under Settings > Payment Integration.
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It’s common for small work groups to need to collect data for projects. And most of the time, data needs to be collected and stored in a consistent manner so that it can be analyzed or included in another project or imported into another application. Data integrity is usually very important. For more than a decade, the default tool for this task has been the spreadsheet. And I am a big fan of the spreadsheet, don’t get me wrong. But there is a better way.
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Support requests are always a great asset for us at FormSpring, they shed light on user problems but also give us an interesting look at how our form builder can be used outside of just an online form tool.
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The default notification e-mail is great, as it includes the submitted data for all form fields, but sometimes you might not want to e-mail all of that info to everyone. Say you send out two notification e-mails for your order form. One goes to sales so that they can log contact details of the submitter and contact them in the future. The other e-mail goes to receiving and needs to contain more details about the order than what sales needs. You can create two different custom e-mails, one containing just the submitted contact details that goes to sales and the second that contains the contact and order info that goes to receiving.
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We are excited for this month’s Talking Tech Series which will be held on Wednesday June 10th. This month’s series focuses on three very important topics: Video Conferencing, Public Relations 101, and Effective Email Usage.
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Do you have mad coding skills and are interested in working for a super company? We’re looking for a talented, enthusiastic developer to join the FormSpring team full-time. Successful candidates must be able to implement complex web-based applications from the ground up, but also be ready and willing to do customer support and application testing.
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