General Form Properties Page

In this page, you provide the basic form properties and the general options.

The 'Basic' Tab

Form Name

Name used to identify the form through out the cycle (in the form page, server side processing, in the response mails, form submission data file and so on). It is recommended that you give a unique name for each of your forms.

The form name has to follow certain naming rules

The Look & Feel Tab

You can decide whether you want to customize the ' style ' of the form. (see How to customize the 'style' of the form for more details)

1. Standard

Select this option if you don't want to customize the style and let Simfatic Forms use the standard style for the form.

2. Custom

Select this option if you want to customize the style. If you select this option, the 'Look & Feel' page will allow you to edit the visual style. You can change the font, text color, background color, border color etc. There is an option to load from a set of pre-built styles also.

The 'Form Processing' Tab

Server Side Processing

You can decide how the submitted form submission is processed.

Create only the client-side of the form

A form has two parts: the client-side form that is displayed in your web browser and the server side form processing script. By default, Simfatic Forms will generate both the parts (the HTML form, and the PHP server side script).

If you want to create only the client-side of the form, select this option. This can be useful in two cases:

• You have a server-side script ready (self-coded or custom-coded by third party)
• You want to try just the client-side part. (You can open the generated form page in a browser)

You can uncheck this option at any point later (thus switching back to a complete form ).

Form sending Method

The selection determines how the form data is sent to the server. In the "Get" method, the form data is encoded in to the URL. In case of "POST" method the data is sent as part of the message to the server and doesn't appear in the URL.

In most cases, leaving the "POST" method selected will be sufficient.

Localization Tab

There are differences in the way date, number or currency is formatted in different parts of the world. In the localization tab, you can select your locale. The formatting of date number and currecy depends on this locale setting.

Localization Settings Dialogbox

You can edit some of the locale settings in this dialog box.

Date Format

You can customize the date format using the formatting tokens below: