Adding an email validation to your email form

When someone fills in your email form you should always make sure that the email address he/she fills in is valid so you can easily get back to them. This means that the email address should be correct in its syntax and it must also exist (since there is no problem making up an email address or typing it incorrectly by mistake).
The email validation option may only be activated from within the "email element", so if you haven't got this element in your email form you will need to add it.

Take Note!
This option will not work in Safari/IE6/IE7 or in forms smaller than 220x220 pixels.


Steps to use the Email Validation option:

1) Enter your email form in the form creator.

2) Select your email element and go to the "element settings" on the right.


3) Turn on the "email validation" checkbox and the "mandatory" checkbox as well.
The reason for turning on the "mandatory" checkbox is that in order for the email validation you must be sure that the user filled it in.



4) Press on "apply".

5) Save the email form.

6) When a form filler will try to submit your email form a window will appear, asking him to validate his/her email address.
The user will then have to click on the link to send himself a validation email. Once this email arrives in the user's mailbox he/she will need to copy the key number in it to the validation textbox in the validation window - and only then will they be able to submit your email form.

Making your feedback form fields mandatory

When you create your feedback form (or any other email form for that matter) you should make sure the important data is filled in by making the relevant fields mandatory.
Usually the fields that are most important in a feedback form are the email field (so you can reply to the person), the name (so you can politely reply using the person's name) and the message/feedback itself (which is the essence of your feedback form).

Following are steps to make your fields mandatory:
1- Enter your feedback form in the form builder.
2- Select a field you want to make mandatory and go to its element settings on the right.
3- turn on the 'mandatory' checkbox.
4- press on 'apply'.
5- save the form.

Once the fields are saved as mandatory the form filler will not be able to submit the form before filling them in.

Adding private access fields to your feedback form

Sometimes you want to add comments/ratings/notes to your feedback form entry after it was submitted, without the form filler being aware of it. This can easily be done by using the 'private access' option.
Private access fields are fields which are placed in a container within the email form and are only visible and accessible to the form owner. Main usage is for adding remarks or ratings to entries after they are submitted. This option suits all kinds of forms, ranging from contact forms and feedback forms to order and support forms.

Following are steps for creating access fields:
1) Enter the web form you wish to add access fields to in the form builder .
2) Drag a container element.
3) Turn on its 'Private Access' checkbox in the element's settings.
4) Drag the elements of your choice in to the container.
5) Save the form.

Please notice that the access fields will not appear in published forms, only in the form owner's report.

Following are steps for entering the data in the existing access fields:
1) Enter the form's report page.
2) Double Click on a specific entry line to open the entry in edit mode (or choose 'Tools'>Edit).
3) Your access fields will now be showing and you will be able to enter data in them.
4) press on the form's submit button to save your data.

Clone your feedback form

Cloning a feedback form is a good way to create identical or almost identical feedback forms in the shortest and easiest way.
Once your original feedback form is done you can clone it and make the desired changes.
Steps to clone your feedback form:
1- enter your account
2- in the data center - press on the "clone" icon of the relevant form in the "form list".
3- A copy of your feedback form will now open in the form builder and you will need to give it a name in the 'form settings'.
4- make the desired changes (design, adding/removing element etc)
5- save the email form.

Disable emails from your feedback form

Your feedback form sends you a new data entry alert by default each time your feedback form is submitted.
This is the most basic thing in an email form, however some users wish to stop receiving these emails (some login regularly and find the emails redundant, some wish to have the emails sent to others by using a 'mailing list' option etc).

The form builder allows you to disable the emails sent to the account owner (you) in a very simple way.

All you need to do is:
1- enter your feedback form in the form builder.
2- go to the 'form settings' on the right.
3- turn on the 'disable emails' checkbox.
4- press on 'apply'.
5- save the form.

the next time someone fills in your feedback form you will not receive an email about it.