How do I use the Aplus.Net Control Panel Formmail feature?

Answer by: Frédérique Taillefer, Aplus.Net Knowledge Base Support.

The Form Mail feature that is available in the Aplus.Net Control Panel generates an HTML page (formmail.html), which you will need to link in your Website navigation.

I. INSTALL FORMAIL:

1. Start by logging into the Aplus.Net Control Panel at http://cp.aplus.net using your registration number and customer password.
2. Select Web Hosting from the top navigation bar.
3. Next, select Hosted Domains and click on Manage Hosted Domains.
4. Now, select the hosted domain that you’d like to manage.
5. Click on the Design tab.
6. Click the Form Mail icon.
7. You can now create a form by filling out the fields in the Install FormMail page (please read below for details about these fields). Finally, click Install. Your formmail will be available at http://yourdomain.com/formmail.html. Please replace “yourdomain.com” with your actual hosted domain name.

• Recipient email address: the email account where the form results will be sent to.
• Subject: the subject that you wish to appear in the e-mail that is sent once the form has been filled out. The default message is “WWW Form Submission.”
• Form user, email address: the user’s return e-mail address. This will appear in the “From” field of the e-mail that you receive.
• Name of form user: the user’s real name. This will also appear in the “From” field of the e-mail that you receive.
• Browser Information: Allows you to have identification information included in the e-mail message you receive after a user has filled out your form. Useful if you wish to know what browser they were using, what domain they were coming from or any other attributes associated with environment variables.
• Redirect to URL: If you wish to redirect the user to a different URL, rather than having him see the default response to the fill-out form, you can use this field to send him to a pre-made HTML confirmation page.
• Title: the title and header that will appear on the resulting page if you do not specify a redirect URL.
• Return Link URL: the URL that will appear as a return link title, on the following report page. This field will not be used if you have the redirect field set, but it is useful if you allow the user to receive the report on the following page, but want to offer them a way to get back to your main page.
• Return Link Title: the title that will be used to link the user back to the page you specify with the return link URL.
• Background Color: a background color for the form results page.
• Text Color: changes the color of your text.
• Links Color: changes the color of links on the resulting page.
• Visited Links Color: changes the color of visited links on the resulting page.
• Color of Active Links: changes the color of active links on the resulting page.
• Additional information fields: with these fields you can ask the user to supply additional information to you. For example: "company name", "address"
• Additional information fields description: type description of the User Fields Names. For example: "Company name: ", "Your snail mail address"
• Required: Select if the additional field is required.

II. MANAGE FORMMAIL:

The Control Panel offers several options for managing your Formmail location and contents:

Option 1: You can place automatically the HTML code for the Formmail. Click the Import Formmail button, select an existing web page, and then click on a desired location to insert the tool. Click Save from the top navigation to finish.

Note: Please have in mind that with this option you will have limited design capabilities, given the fact that the web page you have chosen already has content.

Option 2: You can open and edit the contents of the formmail.html file using the HTML Editor tool. Click on the Edit Formmail button to start the HTML Editor.

Option 3: Click the Grab html code button to copy to clipboard the required HTML code. You may use this code for of your all web pages you wish to have the Formmail on.

Note: With this option, you will be able to manually import the HTML code, thus obtaining full control over the design of your web page.

Related links:

• How do I use the formmail.pl script?
• Formmail example.