Configuring the Form Handler Component

In Page view, select the Form Handler tool from the Component toolbar, and draw a rectangle on the form for the Submit button. On the Form Handler Properties palette, identify the type of server, and rename the Submit button if you want.

Click each row in the palette and enter information as follows:

• Button Name
  Type another name for the button’s label, or use the one that’s there.
   
• Publish to
  From the drop-down list, choose the type of Web server you’re publishing to: Windows, Mac, or UNIX.
  If you want to send each visitor’s form results to an email address, select Email from the drop-down list. Read the Submitting Form To Email section for more information on publishing to an email address..
   
• Success URL
  Double-click this row and, in the Link dialog, select the page to display when a site visitor accurately completes the form. Click the Link button when you’re done.
  If you are publishing the form results to Email, the Success page option will not display. Read the Submitting Form To Email section for more information.
   
• Error URL
  Double-click this row and, in the Link dialog, select the page to display when the submission fails, for example, if the site visitor doesn’t fill in a required field.
   
• Output File
  Type a name for the file you want responses copied to. You can stay with the default, webinfo.txt. This text file will be created with the first form submission and each new submission will be appended to the text file.
   
• Required Fields
  For each field, choose whether a response is required (True) or not (False) for a submission to be successful. If you mark a field True, and a site visitor doesn’t fill it in, they see the error URL when they submit the form.
  NOTE: If any object in your form isn’t listed in the Form Handler Properties palette, you might have named it incorrectly. For information, see Naming Form Objects.
   
• Perl Path for UNIX (ONLY FOR UNIX SERVERS)
  Type the path to the Perl application on the server. Note that Perl 5 is required on the server.
   
• CGI Bin Directory
  Type the path to the directory on the Web server where CGI scripts should be copied.
   
• Storage Directory
  Type the path to the directory on the Web server where you want NetObjects Fusion to put the Output file.

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