Step-by-Step Guide

Creating a form asset

Configuring your form settings

• Elements - this is the area where your form elements may be added.
  
• Email Messages - this is the email sent to you when a form is submitted. The "To" field should contain where you wish the email to be sent. This could be your email address or your unit/department address. The "Form" field may contain noreply@MissouriState.edu. It may also contain the variable {{email}} which will pull the email address of the submitter into that field. The "To" and "From" fields must both be properly formatted email addresses, or the form won't send emails.
  
• You may configure one or more optional messages to be sent to one or more people when a form is submitted. More than one address can be added to an email by separating each address with a semicolon.
  
• At this time, WSD is discouraging the practice of sending a confirmation email back to the email  address provided by the submitter of the form.
  
• Form Settings - this is what the submitter will see once their form is submitted. You will need to provide a success and a failure message.
  
  

Specifying your form type: Email or database

Collecting form submissions and viewing through email

1. Click on Form Settings link in the left column.
   
2. Under Email Messages make sure the checkbox Include All Submitted Values is checked.
   
3. Under Form Settings make sure the checkbox Save Results in Database is not checked.
   
4. Complete your form settings by checking Include CAPTCHA. Change the Submission Button Text if desired.
   

Collecting form submissions and accessing through a database

1. Click on Form Settings link in the left column.
   
2. Under Email Messages make sure the checkbox Include All Submitted Values is not checked.
   
3. Under Form Settings make sure the checkbox Save Results in Database is checked.
   
4. Complete your form settings by checking Include CAPTCHA. Change the Submission Button Text if desired.
   
5. How to view and/or download your form submissions: 
   
6. Navigate to Content > Assets. 
   
7. Find your form asset.  
   
8. Click to open the More Actions menu. 
   
9. Click Review > Form Submissions. 
   
   
   
   
   
   
10. While viewing a form asset, click Form Submissions in the page actions toolbar:
    

• Each form with an assigned id number.
  
• A column for each form element with the submitted answer if provided. 
  
• IP address of the submitter.
  
• Date submitted.
  

Adding form elements 

Build your form by clicking or dragging elements from the Form Elements toolbar (on the left) to Elements:

The form elements include: Single-Line Text Field, Multi-Line Text Field, Radio Buttons, Checkboxes, Drop-Down, Multi-Select and Date/Time Picker

Using +Single-Line Text Field as an example:

Each element needs a label (this is the question in which you are seeking). Each element needs a name. This is automatically populated based on the label value. 

No spaces or special characters are allowed.

Element names can only be edited before you save the form, and are limited to thirty-two characters.

Elements cannot have identical names.

All elements can have helper text, which gives users more information about what you are seeking (information/answer to a question).  

All elements can be marked as required. The user will not be able to submit the form until the question/information is provided.

Adding a drop-down menu for states 

1. Within your form asset, add the +Drop-Down form element to your page.  
   
2. Add the State label.
   
3. Within the Advanced field enter:  dataset=state;
   
   

Adding Form Fieldsets 

To add a fieldset around the elements within your form, you will be using the form element advanced field.

• Identify where you would like your fieldset to start.  
  
  Within the advanced field, type: 
  
  fieldset_start=true; 
  
• In addition, you will want to label your fieldset.  
  
  Within this same advanced field, type:  
  
  fieldset_label=About; 
  
• Identify where you would like for the fieldset to end.
  
  Within the advanced field for that element, type:  
  
  fieldset_end=true; 
  

Following these instructions, will display a fieldset around the starting element (as indicated) and the ending element (as indicated) and includes elements in between. 

Placing the form asset on your page 

1. Navigate to the page on which your form will appear.  
   
2. Click on Main Region. 
   
3. Click on assets  (rotating arrows) to bring up your asset folder. 
   
4. Navigate to and click on your named asset and click on Insert.
   

  Your asset will appear on the page like this:

 SAVE. Once saved it will appear as a form in preview:

See the example below. This is how it will appear on the published page. 

Modern Campus CMS provides a detailed description on building forms.

Other form options