change the way an emailed form is viewed?

[Guest]

how do I make a form that when emailed to me looks like the actual form and not a list of fields

What I need is an online form employees can fill out and submit (for expenses, mileage etc) that comes back to me as a table (10 rows, 4 columns)? In other words I want it to look the same way when I receive it as it does online
Also, is it possible to add a field that calculates the total at the bottom of the form

or is it possible to use an excel form on the web and have that emailed to me? This would be the easiest if possibl
thanks

 

[Sparky Polastri]

how do I make a form that when emailed to me looks like the actual form

and not a list of fields?

The FrontPage form handler does not do that. You'd need to use ASP or Cold
Fusion or something.

What I need is an online form employees can fill out and submit (for

expenses, mileage etc) that comes back to me as a table (10 rows, 4
columns)? In other words I want it to look the same way when I receive it as
it does online.

Also, is it possible to add a field that calculates the total at the

bottom of the form?

You can however make a form go into an Access file, or a CSV file (which
then you can open and manipulate in Excel)

or is it possible to use an excel form on the web and have that emailed to

me? This would be the easiest if possible

The form handler cannot make attachments of any kind, it's not really all
that sophisticated.

 

[Guest]

<i>The FrontPage form handler does not do that. You'd need to use ASP or Col
Fusion or something.</i

Since i've never heard of either of those can you tell me is it relatively easy to learn, or just something I download

 

[Net55]

It is possible:
send results to database and email:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/fp2000/whitep/1/NT5
XP/EN-US/cdonts2000.exe

build a spread sheet and convert it to js script:
http://www.exceleverywhere.com/

Use Frontpage DRW to display your datbase results

-----Original Message-----
<i>The FrontPage form handler does not do that. You'd need to use ASP or Cold
Fusion or something.</i>

Since i've never heard of either of those can you tell

me is it relatively easy to learn, or just something I
download?

 

[Guest]

<i>build a spread sheet and convert it to js script
http://www.exceleverywhere.com/ </i

this might work, thanks

 

[Andrew Murray]

It is possible:
send results to database and email:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/fp2000/whitep/1/NT5
XP/EN-US/cdonts2000.exe

build a spread sheet and convert it to js script:
http://www.exceleverywhere.com/

Use Frontpage DRW to display your datbase results
me is it relatively easy to learn, or just something I
download?

Cold fusion and AsP are complicated programming/scripting tools - Cold Fusion - a
development tool (like Frontpage) but goes much more in-depth than FP ever has
(where FP has only the basics of ASP at its hands, Cold Fusion allows development
of full-on web applications

ASP is a server side scripting 'language' and you can use VBscript or Javascript
to write the ASP code which generates pure html pages.

it is Microsoft's answer to Unix/Linux CGI/Perl scripts.

 

[Jim Buyens]

The FrontPage form handler can't do that. To get what you want, you'd have
to find a suitable third-party form handler or write some program code in
ASP, ASP.NET, or whatever your Web server supports.

For an introduction to doing this in ASP, refer to:

Mailing Form Data
http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=46

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Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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how do I make a form that when emailed to me looks like the actual form and not a list of fields?

What I need is an online form employees can fill out and submit (for

expenses, mileage etc) that comes back to me as a table (10 rows, 4
columns)? In other words I want it to look the same way when I receive it as
it does online.

Also, is it possible to add a field that calculates the total at the bottom of the form?

or is it possible to use an excel form on the web and have that emailed to

me? This would be the easiest if possible