Hi Prism and Jo Ann

Thanks for your replies, I take on board your suggestions. My ideal solution would be to have one simple contact form, that would be on every property page. No need to customise every form, it's the same one on every page. No need to keep updating drop-down lists or stuff when new properties are added or properties are sold. No need for the customer to type reference numbers into the form. I just wanted WFB to add the page URL to the bottom of the email automagically whenever someone presses the submit button (like it does when it sticks the IP address and date/time on the bottom of the email you receive on each submitted form).

It sounds like something which might benefit many of us who are trying to do the same sort of things with web form builder, and it sounds like it probably wouldn't be a mission impossible task for the clever folk at coffeecup. Anyway, for now I am stuck!

Regards, Neal

Hi,
I also have a need for the function similar to what you and Neal are looking for. It looks like this may be possible with some fairly simple Javascript (simple being beyond my current abilities) using the "window.location.search" object as outlined here:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/send1.shtml
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/scriptpass.html
http://javascript.about.com/library/blqs.htm

Perhaps someone with some Javascript coding ability would be kind enough to post some simple scripts for us to use in our HTML pages to accomplish this? I'm sure it would be much appreciated.

Thank you,
Richard

I would like to see this also.
That way I don't have to make a workaround.
I know this can be done just a matter of making it S-Drive compatible.

I tried to find an s-Drive compatible work around, but failed.
I did find a competitor's tool which includes this as one of the variables to be added to the email response. This has worked for me.

*deleted competitor software info as it's not necessary for this to be posted here*

I hope coffeecup considers adding this to their tool.

Hi,

I think I may have come up with a solution that should accomplish what some of you would like. After many tedious hours of trial and error, I found that the coding is actually quite simple ( I really should put "learn Javascript" on my to-do list )

This is a fairly basic solution, but it will allow for passing one piece of information into the form from your referring page (it can be used more than once on the form page). In the examples below, notice that the data appears in both the top of the page after "Job Application:" as well as populating the field under "Position Applied For".
I have tested it with IE8, latest version of Chrome, and Firefox 5. The information is passed through S-drive, and appears in my dashboard, as well as in the emails.

Here is the data I want to pass to the Job Application form page:
"Beetle Catcher - Level 1"
This would be the link on the referring web page with the job description for "Beetle Catcher": http://puzzlespaces.coffeecup.com/Accof … 0Level%201

If I was referring it from the job description page for "Web Designer, Arachnids" this link would send the data "Web Designer, Arachnids" to the form:
http://puzzlespaces.coffeecup.com/Accof … 0Arachnids

If anyone is interested, I'll detail the coding and instructions in another post.

Richard

Hi Richard

That's amazing. I am gonna check it out and see if I can get it working on my site. Thanks so much.

Regards, Neal

Hi Neal,

I was hoping it might be a good solution for your site. The source code on the form is all commented, but there are a lot of comments regarding the accordion script as well, so if you have any problems following it let me know, and I'll try to give you more detail. The link from the referring page is very easy... Just add a ? and the data you wish to transfer to the end of the link to your form.

In the example above it was:

<a href="http://puzzlespaces.coffeecup.com/Accoform/Accoform.html?Beetle Catcher - Level 1" target="_blank">Beetle Catcher - Level 1</a>

* Note, you can pass alphanumeric and most special characters, but NOT the # or "

Good luck, and let me know how you make out with it.

Richard

Hi Richard

I am having a problem with the ? part. My page is www.xxx.com/property/1001.html and I do not understand how I make it www.xxx.com/property/1001.html?Reference 1001 - as in your example.

Any advice? Regards, Neal

Hi Neal,

Although I don't know exactly how you're setting up your website, I'm assuming it's something like:

Web page for property 101 with link to--------->generic form + referring page ID
Web page for property 105 with link to--------->generic form + referring page ID
Web page for property 125 with link to--------->generic form + referring page ID
Etc.

On each property page, add ?IDXXX to the end of the link to the form. Since you'll be setting up each property page individually anyhow, shouldn't be much work to add the extra little bit to the link.

When they click on the link, it will open the form page and fill the ID number into the form.

Example here: http://puzzlespaces.coffeecup.com/Accof … erral.html

You should be able to check the source code and see how it works. All of the Javascript coding is on the form page.

Hope this helps, but there are lots of variations on how this can be done, so let me know if you had something different in mind and I'll see if I can help.

Richard

BTW - How will I explain to my wife how I ended up on the site from your link in that last post?

Hi Richard

Thanks for the info. I had no idea you could do the ?info thing on a referring link, you learn something new every day, so cheers! Ok, progress is being made but still having teething problems (ie it doesn't quite work). I hope you won't mind taking a quick look at this page http://www.demo.nw-computers.com/estate/traditional/properties/reference/1001.html?1001%20Test%20Property and see if you can spot the deliberate mistake I have made somewhere. This is the only page using the form so far. I have suspicions it is something to do with the way I have pasted the code in, but hey, I'm not an expert!

With regards to xxx.com, tell the wife it was "strictly research"!

Many thanks, Neal