Typo3/Forms

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Introduction

  • In your website you can create and insert flexible and customizable forms

Generate your form

  • First of all you have to create the form that fits better with your needs
  • To do that enter in the Form module (1) and click on new form button (2)
Create a new form
  • It is suggested to create a Blank form, in this case you are more free to adapt the form to your needs
  • Insert the name for the form and click on Finish

Edit Your form

Steps

  • Edit the name and the submit label of your form (1)
  • In section number (2) you can add new steps to your form and choose which step you want to work on
  • In section number (3) you can edit the step adding new fields and choose between a list of available contents
Form edit
  • Remember to give a name to the steps you are creating
Step name
  • When you add new contents to the step you are working on you can edit the fields in section (1)
  • You can add further information and settings in section (2)
  • You can see the updated structure of the form in section (3)
Edit the step
  • You can add as many steps as you need (1) and customize them to make them useful to your purposes (2)
Add more steps

Summary

  • When you think that your form is complete you can add a summary step at the end to make possible to the viewer to have a last view of the fields he/she inserted before the submission

Finisher

  • In the first section of the form (1) you can add a Finisher to your form (2)
  • The finisher is an action that will be done after that the Website viewer will submit the form. You can choose between the option you see below
Finisher

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Insert the form in a website page

  • Now that your form is ready you just have to add it to one of the pages of the website
  • To do so open the Page module (1)
  • Select the page in which you want to add the form from the page tree (2)
  • Select in which part of the page you want to add your form (3)
Add the form to a page
  • Select the form element section between the available contents(1)
  • Click of form (2)
Upload form
  • Enter in the plugin section (1)
  • Select your form (2)
Choose the form you want to add to the page

Save>Close