Publishing your form

Post your form to the web to capture leads and customer requests.

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Written by Matthew Garrepy
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Overview

After creating a form, developers can publish forms created in Solodev Forms to their website via shortcodes or using the module directly. This document will outline both steps.

Prerequisites

Before publishing a form, developers should:

  • Create a form module and a form.

  • Create a submission page and activate the redirect on submit button.

  • Capture the ID number of the form module.

Publishing the form

Publish forms with the form module

  • From the Solodev dashboard, click websites.

  • Expand the www folder.

  • Open the page that is supposed to contain the form.

  • Select the dynamic div that will house the form.

  • Open the directory that contains the form datatable.

  • Click the datatable to place it into the dynamic div.

  • Click Publish.

Publish forms with shortcodes

To publish forms with shortcodes, please refer to the following steps:

  • From the Solodev dashboard, click websites.

  • Expand the web files folder.

  • Open the folder that will contain the form content.

  • Open the HTML or .tpl file or create the HTML or .tpl file that will contain the form content.

  • Enter the shortcode with the ID number of the form module adhering to the syntax below:

  • ['form id = #']

    where the # is the form module ID#.

  • Click Publish.

  • Expand the www folder.

  • Open the page that is supposed to contain the form.

  • Select the dynamic div that will house the form.

  • Click the HTML or .tpl file that contains the form content to place it into the dynamic div.

  • Click Publish.

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