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Q: I have created a form with your software and am now testing it out. I have required fields in the form. When one or more of the required fields is left out, the message is received that required fields are missing and there is a button to return to the form. There is a problem (as I see it) because the information previously entered into the form is blank when you return to the form. Surely your software is not designed this way. What am I doing wrong in the creation of the form through form1builder?

A: As outlined in the Help file you set code in the fields so data is not lost. Full details are in the Maintaining Form Content section (4) of the Help file. If you read and follow the Help file you are doing nothing wrong.

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Q: When a radio button or checkbox has been selected by the user of the form, it sends a response of "on" to the form receiver. "On" seems to be more of a programming term (on/off, true/false), than something that is user friendly. Is it possible to change it to return "yes", which I believe the receiver of the form (usually a non-technical person) would understand better?

A: The actual term set is determined by the browser. It is not set by Form1. If the browser sets the value to "on" when selected then this is what is displayed. This value can vary between browsers.

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Q: I have been trying to test the form I generated on this site. It sends the email but I do not get any variables.

A: From your code I can see the you have Deliver First Letter Upper Case Fields Only set (ie $firstupper = "true";) but all your form fields are lower case so they will never be sent. So you either need to change the Deliver First Letter Upper Case Fields setting or change your form field names to start with an upper case letter (I would suggest you actually give them descriptive names). See the Deliver First Letter Upper Case Fields section of the Help file for details.

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Q: I am working with your evaluation copy. I have selected a form field to be a radio button. I can't figure out how to put in the number of or values for the buttons. How is this handled in your software?

A: Standard form fields are handled as per any form. For radio buttons the name must be the same for all radios buttons in the same group and the value is what is set when the button is selected. For information on how forms function and form tutorials have a look at https://bizpep.com/formcode.html .

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Q: I am getting an error when trying to process the form that I created. I think I must have something named wrong? Can you clarify how things are to be named so that they work together?

A: You can name things anything you like. But from looking at you url it appears that you have corrupted the php code in the form action. This usually occurs when you edit the file with a html editor ie FrontPage, DreamWeaver etc, php code should only be edited with a text editor or in the text area of the Form1 Builder. See the second point in the Trouble Shooting section of the Help file for details.

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