Html Form E-Mailer Tutorial

Configuring the reply to the user

In this section you will be presented with the options for the reply message the user will see. You have two main choices, showing the user a reply screen or redirecting them to a web page of your choice. The system default is the reply screen which you can see after sending the email in the tutorial section Configuring E-mail recipients. All the options specified in this tutorial you will probably want to put in hidden form input fields to both hide them from the user seeing to early, and from letting the users monkey with them.
Now, you know from the E-mail tutorial that the mailto and replyto fields are required or the application will balk. For the purposes of this section we have circumvented that requirement by specifying the dont_email field. Thus no mailto and replyto fields are required and no emails will be sent.
There are three pieces to the reply that appear in this order.

Reply text
'Your message has been sent to <mailto field>'
Returnpage link
You can 'suppress' the 2nd and/or 3rd, or you can simply redirect to the 3rd, which will ignore the 1st and 2nd. The 2nd field, the 'Your message...' text is not alterable. You only have the option of removing it.

reply

The default is something like 'Thank You'. Enter some text in the textarea below and hit the submit button under it to see how it comes out. Now try adding some html tags like or . Don't forget, if you are going to embed html into this or any field that is a hidden form input parameter, you need to encode symbols like <, >, ", &. View the page source of this section to see how.

Reply:
View this source to see how to embed bold and italic text.

returnpage

This field can have two different purposes depending on the value of the suppress field. If the suppress field suppresses the answer, this field should be a fully qualified URL like http://www.udel.edu. If the answer is not suppressed, this field is treated exactly like the reply field, just placed after the reply field. It's purpose is to give the user a link to return them to the application/web site they came from.

Returnpage:
Return to the <a href="http://chico.nss.udel.edu/mailto/mailtoInstructions.html">mailto instructions<a>.

suppress

The suppress field determines whether a reply page is presented or whether the user should be redirected to the returnpage. For this example the returnpage is defaulted to the mailto instructions.

Suppress:

Suppress the 'Your message ...' field
Suppress the returnpage field
Suppress both returnpage and 'Your message ...' fields
Redirect to the returnpage (mailto instructions)

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Configuring the reply to the user

In this section you will be presented with the options for the reply message the user will see. You have two main choices, showing the user a reply screen or redirecting them to a web page of your choice. The system default is the reply screen which you can see after sending the email in the tutorial section Configuring E-mail recipients. All the options specified in this tutorial you will probably want to put in hidden form input fields to both hide them from the user seeing to early, and from letting the users monkey with them. Now, you know from the E-mail tutorial that the mailto and replyto fields are required or the application will balk. For the purposes of this section we have circumvented that requirement by specifying the dont_email field. Thus no mailto and replyto fields are required and no emails will be sent. There are three pieces to the reply that appear in this order. Reply text 'Your message has been sent to <mailto field>' Returnpage link You can 'suppress' the 2nd and/or 3rd, or you can simply redirect to the 3rd, which will ignore the 1st and 2nd. The 2nd field, the 'Your message...' text is not alterable. You only have the option of removing it.

reply
The default is something like 'Thank You'. Enter some text in the textarea below and hit the submit button under it to see how it comes out. Now try adding some html tags like <b> or <i>. Don't forget, if you are going to embed html into this or any field that is a hidden form input parameter, you need to encode symbols like <, >, ", &. View the page source of this section to see how.
Reply:	View this source to see how to embed <b>bold</b> and <i>italic</i> text.

returnpage
This field can have two different purposes depending on the value of the suppress field. If the suppress field suppresses the answer, this field should be a fully qualified URL like http://www.udel.edu. If the answer is not suppressed, this field is treated exactly like the reply field, just placed after the reply field. It's purpose is to give the user a link to return them to the application/web site they came from.
Returnpage:	Return to the <a href="http://chico.nss.udel.edu/mailto/mailtoInstructions.html">mailto instructions<a>.

suppress
The suppress field determines whether a reply page is presented or whether the user should be redirected to the returnpage. For this example the returnpage is defaulted to the mailto instructions.
Suppress:	Suppress the 'Your message ...' field Suppress the returnpage field Suppress both returnpage and 'Your message ...' fields Redirect to the returnpage (mailto instructions)

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