If you want to do a survey, or ask your readers for information, Seedwiki will save the data for you if you use the tools in the FCKeditor to make an HTML form.

Step 1. Click on the 'Form' button of the FCKeditor. Enter nothing for the name. Enter nothing for the action. And select the method to 'POST'. Save the page changes.

Step 2. Click inside the form area you just created (in edit-mode, the form area is outlined by red dots). Click on any of the input box buttons (i.e. checkbox, radio button, textfield textarea, selectionfield). Enter the same value for the "id" that you do for the "name", the "name" value is used when your data is saved and the "id" value will be used when you want to display it  (entering those fields this way only works in Firefox, it doesn't work yet in Internet Explorer -- Internet Explorer users you'll have to do it manually through step 3). And click on the button labeled 'button' (make the type be a 'Submit', this part actually works in Internet Explorer as well)

Step 3. (Internet Explorer Only) Click on the 'Source' button in the upper left corner ot the FCKeditor toolbar. Give a name and an id to each input tag (i.e. <input name=firstname id=firstname> ).  Use the same value for the "id" that you do for the "name", the "name" value is used when your data is saved and the "id" value will be used when you want to display it. At this point in time, in Internet Explorer you can only provide a name and an id by doing it manually by clicking on 'Source' (we hope to get that fixed soon).

Step 4. Click on 'Save Changes'. This will give you an input form that automatically works on the server. To view or download the data collected, you can use the following widget _viewdata|pagename] which can either be on the same page or a different page within your wiki.

 

Sample Form

 First Name:  

Last Name:  

 

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