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Web Forms Portlet

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  1. Introduction
    1. Features
      1. Limitations and future work
        1. References

          Note: this feature has been added in Liferay Portal 4.3

          Introduction #

          The web forms portlet is a tool that allows a web administrator to define a form to be published in the website. Users visiting the website can then fill the form which is then sent to a configured email address or saved (to file or to database).

          Attached are two screenshots to see how the portlet looks like in view and edit configuration modes.

          Features #

          • The title and introductory description of the form shown to the users are configurable
          • The email address and subject of the email is also configurable per form
          • It is possible to have as many different forms per website and page as desired (Instanceable portlet)
          • Three types of fields: text, text box and select box
          • Save to database
          • Export to CSV file

          Limitations and future work #

          Following is a list of known limitations that might be solved in the future:

          • "Export do file" sections is seen only after someone fills that form.
          • A fixed number of max fields must be configured at deployment time (in portlet.xml). This should be expanded so that there is no max. limit and new fields can be added through the UI
          • Three types of fields: text, text box and select box
          • Not internationalizable: it's not possible to have the form title, form description and field labels in several languages
          • (at least in 5.2.3) Mandatory Fields should not contain spaces in their label

          Other improvements that might be done are:

          • Support more field types
          • Show statistics about the answers (requires previous feature)
          • Email to multiple contacts (comma or colon-separated list)

          References #

          • http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-2558
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          Ad more filed types: It could be useful to have... Milan Jaroš 30 décembre 2008 02:35
          can we set email address based on user input? delang j 15 février 2009 19:03
          # Store the answers in a database It stores... Auditya manikanta Vadrevu 14 juillet 2009 02:04
          Auditya - yes, it stores the answers into the... David Hunter 18 mai 2010 12:46
          David, I'm using Liferay 5.2. Under "portlet... Péter Kormos 2 août 2010 12:51
          Why are the addresses of sender and recipient... Matus Ferko 19 août 2009 03:24
          Agree coffy, there should be checkbox send a... Suresh Nimmakayala 23 septembre 2009 14:40
          There's an open issue. ... Kirk Stork 5 janvier 2011 17:32
          Should be a field type that saves the username... Eduardo Roldan 28 avril 2010 00:02
          Hi.. I want to know how can i add new buttons... ankit yakkundi 27 septembre 2010 05:30
          Should allow to add additional text form fields. Manuel Hoyos 11 avril 2013 23:25
          Is is possible to increase question length? Now... Raquel Brown 13 octobre 2013 08:52

          Milan Jaroš
          Ad more filed types: It could be useful to have support for <input type="file"/>.
          Publié le 30/12/08 02:35.
          delang j
          can we set email address based on user input?
          Publié le 15/02/09 19:03.
          Auditya Vadrevu
          # Store the answers in a database

          It stores in database in expandotable,expandocolumn,expandorow,expandovalue.
          Publié le 14/07/09 02:04.
          Matus Ferko
          Why are the addresses of sender and recipient the same? There should some way to set up sender e-mail address.
          Publié le 19/08/09 03:24.
          Suresh Nimmakayala
          Agree coffy, there should be checkbox send a copy to sender ? like that
          Publié le 23/09/09 14:40 en réponse à Matus Ferko.
          Eduardo Roldan
          Should be a field type that saves the username (if authenticated) of the person filling the form.
          Publié le 28/04/10 00:02.
          David Hunter
          Auditya - yes, it stores the answers into the Expando tables - however how do you extract the data for viewing ?
          Publié le 18/05/10 12:46 en réponse à Auditya manikanta Vadrevu.
          Péter Kormos
          David,

          I'm using Liferay 5.2.
          Under "portlet configuration", there are two tabs, "General" and "Form Fileds".
          First make sure, that "Save to Database" is enabled under "General".
          Then after a couple of form submits, go to
          "Form Fileds" tab, and there's an "Export Data" button. That would get you a CSV with all the form data submitted so far.

          You might try "Save to File" as well, that would generate the same CSV on the disc.

          HTH,

          Peter
          Publié le 02/08/10 12:51 en réponse à David Hunter.
          ankit yakkundi
          Hi..
          I want to know how can i add new buttons on the web form portlet like save,delete,etc.Which should work as name suggest.
          Publié le 27/09/10 05:30.
          Kirk Stork
          There's an open issue. http://issues.liferay.com/browse/LEP-7196

          But having been filed in 2008, I gather nobody cares too much about this.

          It seems to me the sender should either be configurable or use the same sender information used for other Portal-generated emails, like new account notifications and such.
          Publié le 05/01/11 17:32 en réponse à Matus Ferko.
          Manuel Hoyos
          Should allow to add additional text form fields.
          Publié le 11/04/13 23:25.
          Raquel Brown
          Is is possible to increase question length? Now it's limited to 75 characters.
          Publié le 13/10/13 08:52.