General Form Properties Page

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 Action Script

If you have a custom form processing script such as this generic PHP form handler that is configured and uploaded to your website, then provide the URL of the script here.

Ratufa.io Form Connection script

Ratufa.io is a form back-end as service. You can configure your options (email, auto-response, and even validations) in this service. Then connect your HTML form to Ratufa.io. Ratufa.io will do the back-end form processing. So you don't have to worry about configuring email, SMTP, Database, etc.

In order to connect your form, go to Ratufa.io

Press the "Connect Form" button. Then copy and paste the one line of code given to you to the Box provided.

 

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:

 

Token

Meaning

Example

d

Day of month (no leading zero)

5

dd

Day of month (leading zero)

05

ddd

Day name (abbreviated)

Sat

dddd

Day name (full)

Saturday

M

Month of year (no leading zero)

9

MM

Month of year (leading zero)

09

MMM

Month name (abbreviated)

Sep

MMMM

Month name (full)

September

yy

Year (two digits)

55

yyyy

Year (four digits)

1955