Working with HTML Forms

NOTE: This section explains how to create/edit HTML forms using eWebEdit400. If your editor is eWebEditPro+XML, seehttp://documentation.ektron.com/cms400/v76/usermanual.pdf >”Working with HTML Forms.”

Ektron provides powerful online form capabilities, letting you create an online dialog with visitors. Anyone can create and deploy Web forms. A form has the following components.

• Form (title, ID number, whether the form data is sent as email, and/or saved to a database, etc.)
• Content information (title, start and/or end date, status, postback message, etc.)
• Form fields (text field, password field, text area, hidden text, choices, checkbox, select list, calendar, submit button, etc.)

By default, form permissions are inherited from a form’s folder. To customize permissions for any folder that contains forms, access the corresponding folder under Content and assign permission as described in Managing Folder Permissions.

Similar to content, users in the administrator user group have full control over form features. You must be a member of the administrator group to add, edit, or delete a form, or assign content to a form. You may also perform all actions on a form’s content. Users who are not members of the administrator user group can add, edit, delete, and restore form content if granted these permissions for the content folder or item.

For more information about working with HTML forms, see the following topics.

• Creating a Form
• Creating Surveys and Polls
• Using Form Server Controls to Display Forms
• Managing Form Responses