Archive for May, 2010
Web Form Builder Upgrade
This release of FormSmarts introduces over one hundred improvements, leading to our most powerful, reliable and generous offer yet.
Important Reminder
Please add FormSmarts sender email formsmarts-noreply@syronex.com to your contacts, whitelist, or list of allowed senders and instruct any other form recipients to do so too. This should ensure your web forms are (and continue to be) always correctly delivered to your Inbox.
Increased Input Fields Allowance
To allow all users to take advantage of the new Heading and Text Block widgets introduced with this release, we’ve increased the number of fields you can use on a form.
- FormSmarts Standard users can add up to 15 fields on each form using their referral points.
- FormSmarts Pro users can add up to 75 fields on each form.
Be a Good Web-Citizen
- Report bugs. However intense our testing efforts before releasing a new version of the form builder, bugs may remain due to the number of different browsers and versions in use. Please report any suspected bugs on the forum or by email.
- Show your support. Whether you are a Standard user getting the web form service for free or a FormSmarts Pro customer paying the price of a business lunch for a year of service, please show your support by pressing the “Like” button on our Facebook page and following us on Twitter.
Major Changes
If many of the changes are improvements to FormSmarts server-side software which are not directly visible to you, all affect the quality of the service we provide you.
- Form data storage and Excel reporting are coming out of Beta, and you can now activate those for each form in the Form Details screen of your account.
- We’ve improved several aspects of the form creator’s interface.
- We now support headings and text blocks on forms; details in another post.
Posted on May 5th, 2010 in form builder.
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Tags: form to excel, input field, news, paypal form
How to Add Headings & Text Blocks to a Form
Headings
You can now use headings to create logical sections within your forms. For example, you might need a Contact Details or Past Employment section. To add a heading, select the Heading widget in the Fields tab of the form builder. The new field’s description will become the text of the heading.
Text Block Widget
We’ve also added a text block widget that allows you to insert text of up to 250 characters anywhere within a form. Example uses include:
- Instructions for individual form sections
- Question or sentence introducing a group of check boxes
- Disclaimer at the bottom of a form
Text Blocks support some text formatting (bold and italics) and — most importantly — links.
To add a text block to a form, select the Text Block widget in the Fields tab of the form builder. We’ve increased the maximum number of fields that can be added to a form to allow all users to take advantage of this new facility.
Links and Formatting in Text Blocks
You may sometimes need to insert links in a form. For example, to provide a link to your terms of service or privacy policy, or to refer to an external document within a form. The form builder now allows you to insert links and specify bold text and italics in Text Blocks using the following wiki-style syntax:
| Link | This is a [http://FormSmarts.com link to FormSmarts]. | This is a link to FormSmarts. |
|---|---|---|
| Bold | This text is *important*. | This text is important. |
| Italics | So is **this one**. | So is this one. |
- Links open in a new window
- Linking and formatting constructs can’t be nested. So, you can’t have a link in bold or text in bold and italics.
- Check out this example.
- Links and formatting are available with FormSmarts Pro and FormSmarts Business plans.
Give Feedback!
We welcome your feedback about headings and text blocks. If you would like to give feedback about (or suggest we add) another feature, visit the forum on our Facebook page. We read and reply to all posts.
Posted on May 5th, 2010 in form builder.
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Tags: input field
Changes in Form Builder Payment Integration
The recent upgrade introduces some changes in FormSmarts Payment Integration (PayPal Form) feature.
- Chargeable items may now be placed in check boxes. This should prove valuable in situations where you’re building a form with one or several optional, individually priced items.
- Payment button instead of link. We’ve replaced the payment link on the confirmation page by a more outstanding button.
- Form ID now shown in PayPal report. Up to now, when you needed to reconcile a payment with the corresponding form submission, you could only rely on the FormSmarts Reference Number. This is the unique ID shown in the subject of emails containing form data and in Form to Excel reports. The same ID appears in the payment details in your Paypal account, and also in the CSV report you can generate. We’ve now added the Form ID (see screenshot) to the information available on PayPal, so you may quickly identify which form each payment is for.
We warmly welcome your feedback.
Posted on May 5th, 2010 in form builder.
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Tags: payment integration, paypal, paypal form