How to Create Forms in Plone2.htm
How to Create Forms in Plone.
- Login to Plone with your user name and password
- Go to the Plone folder where you want your form to land.
- Click on the “Contents” tab of the folder

- Click on “Add Item” and select “Form Folder” from the drop-down menu
- From the “Edit Form Folder” Enter
- “Title” – the name of your newly created form
- “Description” – a short summary of the form content
- “Submit Button Label” – default is “Submit”
- Check “Show Cancel Button” – if you want the “Cancel Button” on the form. This option is turned on by default
- “Mailer” is checked by default, so the form contents will be sent to the email recipient.
- “Thanks Page – Pick a contained page you wish to show on a successful”
** A “Thank you” page was created for you by default.

- Click “Next” to continue
- Enter “Form Prologue -- This text will be displayed above the form fields.”
- Enter “Form Epilogue -- The text will be displayed after the form fields.”

- Click “Save” to save the form.
Here is how the form looks like:

Every time when you create a form, Plone will create the following form fields by default:
· Mailer – here you will setup recipient’s name, email address, CC/BCC recipients
· Your E-Mail Address – a form field for users to fill in their email addresses
· Subject – form field for users to fill in
· Comments -- form field for users to fill in
· Thank You – acknowledgment page

- Now you need to go back to edit “Mailer”
- From the Form Folder, click “Contents”
- click “Mailer” and then click “Edit”
- Click “Next” to go to “Edit Mailer Adapter”

- Enter “Recipient's full name -- The full name of the recipient of the mailed form.
- Enter “Enter Recipient's e-mail address -- The recipients e-mail address.”
- Enter “CC Recipients” and / or “BCC Recipients” if you need to.
- Click “Save”

- Edit “Thank You” Page.
- From Form Folder, click “Content”
- From “Content”, click “Thank You”
- Click “Edit”
- Fill out “Title”, “Description -- A short summary of the content”, “Show All Fields” and Show Responses as need
- Click “Save” to finish editing the “Thank You” page.

Here is how the form looks like:

