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Q: Our Goldmine system was set up by another individual using ASP. We are now using PHP. We purchased form1buildergoldmine and almost all is setup properly. The only problem we are having is the email functions. Email is the input name of the customer's email filling out the form, but form1builder is set up for Email to mean our email. When I try to set up the autoresponder, and email is used as the input for the customer, I get the autoresponse, not the customer. If I change the input of the customer email to email_address, it works fine...but I cannot change Email to anything but 'Email' is in the Goldmine database. Also, for some unknown reason, I am getting two emails with the results, can I change this?

A: You can define the email field name to anything you like by setting the predefined email field variable. See the Pre Defined variables section of the help file. This will allow you to set the email field lable as "email" and should be just what you require. On the two email issue see the GoldMine section of the help file there is a variable you can set to send only the GoldMine WebImport email (the one you want).

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Q: Issue resolving Forms required fields display and/or Forms submission page. Goldmine limits fields to 9 characters starting with the letter U. I have a lengthy form and many fields. If I conform to these limits the user will have difficulty determining the field missing a required entry. Is there any way to display Field Labels in the form corresponding to these required Fields in a required field error screen or the Form Submission Page.

A: You cannot use field labels as the script has no way of knowing which labels apply to which fields. However you could set up your own message pages instead of using the default messages. When the message page is called (ie the page for required field) the reason is also sent in the url as a get field such as ?reason=fieldname. This allows you to add some script to the message page to display any message you like based on the reason value. To do this you would need to be able to write some php script to display the required label that matches the reason field. More information is included in the messages section of the help file.

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Q: I have downloaded and installed a copy of your Form 1 Builder GoldMine software, because i heard it supported the processing and sending of attachments along with form data in a format that could be understood by GoldMine. Indeed your software sends an email in goldmine format with the information from the form. And, indeed, it does send an email with the file attachment from my form. However, these are 2 separate emails. The second email is an html email with the form field names and values printed out on the page, plus the attachment. Is goldmine supposed to pick up the attachment from this email? or maybe goldmine doesn't support the file attachment?...... or is the file attachment supposed to be in the same email as the goldmine data?

A: The WebImport feature of GoldMine will read the GoldMine formatted email and apply this data in the database, it will not include attachments just form data. The second email (in standard format) can include an attachment, you can handle this email in any manner you like but it is not formatted for WebImport. You can change it to a text email (non html) using the format variables.

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Q: I downloaded the trial and copied the code from form builder goldmine. I'm using an existing form. i put the hidden field <DataStart> in there, but the email it generates is not in goldmine format with [Instructions] [ContSupp] etc., it simply prints out the field names=values in order. any clues guys?

A: The GolMine Use variable must be set to true ie $gmuse ="true"; for a GoldMine email to be delivered. Details on this are provided in the GoldMine section of the Help file and also in the online help file available at https://bizpep.com/form1/ .

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Q: Is there a way to make the reply email more compact?

A: If you are referring to the layout of the delivered form data, you can use the Line Break Off variable to remove the break between form data Field Names and Values in the delivered email. See the Line Break Off section (2 II iv d) of the Help file for details.

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