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  • nrek 15 posts 36 karma points
    Nov 11, 2009 @ 00:39
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    Contact Forms, From a Noob

    Gonna try to keep this short:

    I'm unable to get a form to show up... anywhere. I've tried doc2form & AutoForm, Runway Contact Form, Cultiv, and Axendo (which - by the way - after uninstalling, residual node attachments caused "nodeID" errors, and actually wiped out all my site content costing me about 9 days of content deployment); needless to say; it was assumed that Contact Forms would be an intuitive process, meaning - install a package, create a form through a document, emed the form into a page via a macro... 

    In fact, a lot of documentation I have points me to go that route to some extent. I feel like I'm missing some tiny detail that's causing one of two things to happen.

    1. Absolutely Nothing, and I mean nothing - no form, no error... just nothing
    2. Error: you can only have one form tag on a page, etc etc.... Which I was only able to get from Runway Contact Form

    I'm going to fire off an attempt at Runway Contact Forms again, since it was the only one that gave me "a" result; and I can post my findings there, but I'm pretty much || < that close to just creating a blank template form page and instructing my client to use iFrames to embed the damn things on pages they want them to appear.

    The easiest way to resolve this would be to just toss me a bulletted list of operations I need to complete to maek this work... or link an example with some type of something. I know Umbraco.tv has references for this - but I can't clear the charges with my company to give me that resource. So any help would be greatly appreciated.

     

     

  • Chris Houston 535 posts 980 karma points MVP admin c-trib
    Nov 11, 2009 @ 01:12
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    You could save yourself a lot of head aches and pay for an Umbraco TV subscription yourself for your own sanity I am sure you will find it really useful! That might be better than highlighting to your company the loss of 9 days work where they could have spent 19 euros that would have prevented that ;-)

    Failing that, just install one of the contact form packages and then post on here the error messages you are receiving and I am sure one if us will be able to help you debug it.

    Cheers,

    Chris

  • nrek 15 posts 36 karma points
    Nov 11, 2009 @ 02:22
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    Here's what I have:

    Page - http://artseps.com/contact-us.aspx :: This page needs to have content (user controlled) before and after the form; and there need to be at least 4 different forms created for this site, and approximately 15 forms created total for the project, all within different pages, embedded with either content before or after or neither around the form.

    Form - http://artseps.com/chip---contact-us.aspx :: This is the Runway ContactForm; straight out of the box; created with a blank template, using the "insert macro" option in the CMS.

    Though i'd rather go about this another way; how do I get the Form to show up on the Page wherever the user decides they want it?

    Additionally - how do I add/alter the fields in Runway ContactForm? Considering this is the closest I've ever gotten to having a form even show up in Umbraco, it would be nice if I could bend this thing to the will of my client, and just be done with this 3 week long struggle to get this to work.

  • Casey Neehouse 1339 posts 483 karma points MVP 2x admin
    Nov 11, 2009 @ 06:15
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    nrek,

    If you are willing, I will offer you a few minutes of my time to walk you through dealing with forms in umbraco.  Please drop me an email at casey at bestcasetech dot com, and I will set up a time to do an example.  I prefer doc2form, but will help you with whichever option you prefer.

    If you have a need for an advanced form, various options are also available, but the best route is to develop advanced forms with .net user controls.

  • Fredrik 41 posts 161 karma points
    Nov 11, 2009 @ 11:09
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    Nrek,

    I followed this guide made by Lee Messenger, that is made for doc2form and it worked fluently.


    http://www.blogfodder.co.uk/post/How-To-Get-doc2form-For-Umbraco.aspx


    Hope this helps,

    Fredrik

  • nrek 15 posts 36 karma points
    Nov 12, 2009 @ 09:45
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    Fredrik -

    "I followed this guide made by Lee Messenger" << likewise. I got REALLY close. Now I think I'm just dealing with a poorly made .master page... because the error I'm getting (thank god I'm at least getting an error) looks something like this -

    Control 'ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_ContentPlaceHolderDefault_MasterContentPlaceHolder_Doc2Form_2_VS' of type 'ValidationSummary' must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server.

    Which I can deal with. Thank you! That post was exactly what I needed.

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