I am trying to setup doc2form and I have a form on my site now with 3 fields, name, email and message. The form submits and redirects fine but I don't receive an email.
Do I need to put my user name and password in the web.config file? The same user name and password I use to login to my hosts control panel? I cant find any smtp settings (plesk control panel) and I'm pretty unsure whether I even need them or not.
Also, I have no .dll file either in the package. I downloaded the package and it contains:
Doc2Form.ascx, doc2form.ascx.cs and package.xml. The stylesheet is also created successfully.
The .umb package installed ok and I understand the relation between the docType and the form creation, but I'm confused reading other peoples' posts about this mystery .dll file... (do I need it?)
Your hosting provider probably has a smtp server you need to specify in the web.config file. It does not nessecarily need credentials to work.
Have you had a look in the bin folder? There probably is a doc2form.dll or something like that. But it's not nessecarily something you need to care about. If the package is fullfilling your needs and you don't have any problems using it then don't worry too much about it :-)
I've got it up and running, it's only a very simple form to get me in touch with potential clients ie name, email, message, I don't intend to store any of the details or anything remotely complex. I will more than likely ring them anyway rather than email.
I will keep this package in mind for the future. Has anyone got any real examples of this in use to show me the sort of stuff it can do?
I have it working now. The documentation was a bit lacking though (although more than other packages I've seen), it lists the features/what it can do/what the options are, but forgets the bit about getting it up and running in the first place. Anyway, got there in the end.
I had to put in the web.config, the name of my hosts dedicated web forms/mail server which does not require authentication. Then it was just a case of putting the 'from' address in the macro (which is my website - [email protected] - mail address which I created in the plesk admin), and 'to' address in the macro is my gmail, and it works just fine :)
It's a great package and I'm looking forward to trying all the other features, through trial and error, my usual approach. It's slow but you cover a lot of options and when you finally do understand something, you've done quite a bit of learning on the way :-D
Yes sometimes trial'n'error is the only way forward. It's a nice feeling when all the pieces starts to get together :-)
The SMTP info should also be entered in the web.config if you're just using the umbraco.library:SendMail() extension as well so it's not something that is explicitly related to doc2form for instance.
Doc2Form setup
Hi everyone,
I am trying to setup doc2form and I have a form on my site now with 3 fields, name, email and message. The form submits and redirects fine but I don't receive an email.
Do I need to put my user name and password in the web.config file? The same user name and password I use to login to my hosts control panel? I cant find any smtp settings (plesk control panel) and I'm pretty unsure whether I even need them or not.
Also, I have no .dll file either in the package. I downloaded the package and it contains:
Doc2Form.ascx, doc2form.ascx.cs and package.xml. The stylesheet is also created successfully.
The .umb package installed ok and I understand the relation between the docType and the form creation, but I'm confused reading other peoples' posts about this mystery .dll file... (do I need it?)
As always, any help is very much appreciated.
Thanks :)
Sam.
Hi Sam
Your hosting provider probably has a smtp server you need to specify in the web.config file. It does not nessecarily need credentials to work.
Have you had a look in the bin folder? There probably is a doc2form.dll or something like that. But it's not nessecarily something you need to care about. If the package is fullfilling your needs and you don't have any problems using it then don't worry too much about it :-)
/Jan
with the latest versions of doc2form it runs in teh app_code folder... so no dll to speak of with the latest versions....
i would guess you need to specify smpt setting in your web.config to match your hosting provider specs
Thanks guys,
I've got it up and running, it's only a very simple form to get me in touch with potential clients ie name, email, message, I don't intend to store any of the details or anything remotely complex. I will more than likely ring them anyway rather than email.
I will keep this package in mind for the future. Has anyone got any real examples of this in use to show me the sort of stuff it can do?
Don't worry if no examples, thanks again :)
Sam.
Hi Sam
By following the link from Thomas Höhler in this post http://our.umbraco.org/forum/getting-started/questions-about-runway-and-modules/3110-doc2Form--Can%27t-find-any-tutorials--documentation you get to a page on codeplex where there is some early documentation on doc2form. Have'nt read it myself though, so I don't know how thorough it has become.
I think you should also have a look at the link Dan Drayne posted to Dirk's guide on the old umbraco forum.
I also think one of the Lee's in here made a guick start guide once...can't remember the url at the moment though...will post it if I find it.
But you can always ask your questions here if something just does not make sense - don't hold them back. We're all here to help :-)
/Jan
Hi again
Just realised that there's actually some documentation available from the package download page here: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/doc2form
Don't know if you've already had a look at that maybe?
/Jan
Thanks Jan,
I have it working now. The documentation was a bit lacking though (although more than other packages I've seen), it lists the features/what it can do/what the options are, but forgets the bit about getting it up and running in the first place. Anyway, got there in the end.
I had to put in the web.config, the name of my hosts dedicated web forms/mail server which does not require authentication. Then it was just a case of putting the 'from' address in the macro (which is my website - [email protected] - mail address which I created in the plesk admin), and 'to' address in the macro is my gmail, and it works just fine :)
It's a great package and I'm looking forward to trying all the other features, through trial and error, my usual approach. It's slow but you cover a lot of options and when you finally do understand something, you've done quite a bit of learning on the way :-D
Thanks for the help.
Sam.
Hi Sam
Yes sometimes trial'n'error is the only way forward. It's a nice feeling when all the pieces starts to get together :-)
The SMTP info should also be entered in the web.config if you're just using the umbraco.library:SendMail() extension as well so it's not something that is explicitly related to doc2form for instance.
/Jan
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