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MPForm Documentation: Treatment of Form data

Level of difficulty: A 

The user did submit the form successfully - what happens now?

Just in case that you did study the various settings of MPForm yet, you will know the possibilities already. Here comes a summary of all ways to save and send data.

Ways to show data to the user for confirmation

Confirmation on the web site

Preconditions to get it to work:

  • Following page must be set to None in the Workflow Settings
  • Success text in the Workflow Settings is required to contain at least the place holder {DATA}.
Confirmation email to the user

Preconditions to get it to work:

  • The form contains a mandatory field of type E-Mail Address
  • The setting "To" address in the section Confirmation mail to user is linked with this field
  • The setting Text in this section is required to contain at least the place holder {DATA}.

 

Ways to show data to the site owner

Sending by email

Preconditions to get it to work:

  • The field "To" address in the section Mail to site owner contains at least one valid email address
  • The setting Text in this section is required to contain at least the place holder {DATA}.
View data in the Backend of the web site

Precondition to get it to work:

  • The Workflow setting Data transfer to mpform_submissions-Tabelle is required to contain at least the place holder {DATA}.
Save data in the table mpform_results_xxx

Precondition to get it to work:

  • The Workflow setting Name suffix for results table may not have been changed after the first field has been added to the table. xxx is the string from this setting.

The table contains a row for each submission and a column for each field of the form.
For downloading the complete form the module CSV-Export is suggested.