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arekdaset
04-20-2006, 02:19 PM
good afternoon everyone. I am trying to find out why my forms will not submit after I hit the submit button. This form was created in Front Page and I followed all the directions on Microsoft's Site on creating forms. As of now the survey resides at this address:

http://chicagoelections.com/survey.htm

I followed everything to a "T" but I can not find out why it won't submit. As of now the page is on our server running front page extensions and I also tried to modify the page on the server because for some reason it manipulates the code. Can anyone be of assistance? It would be greatly appreciated. Here is the code.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<TITLE>Chicago Board of Elections Voting Equipment Survey</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1 align="center">&nbsp;<img src="picture2.jpg"></a></H1>
<H1 align="center">VOTER SURVEY</H1>
<HR>
<FORM Action="_derived/nortbots.htm" METHOD="POST" ENCTYPE="text/plain" onSubmit="location.href='_derived/nortbots.htm';return false;" webbot-onSubmit webbot-action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
<!--WEBBOT BOT=SaveResults S-Builtin-Fields="Date Time" U-Confirmation-Url="Thanks.html" startspan U-File="_private/form_results.txt" S-Format="TEXT/PRE" S-Label-Fields="TRUE" B-Reverse-Chronology="FALSE" U-File="_private/form_results.txt" S-Format="TEXT/PRE" S-Label-Fields="TRUE" B-Reverse-Chronology="FALSE" S-Date-Format="%m/%d/%Y" S-Time-Format="%I:%M:%S %p"
--><input TYPE="hidden" NAME="VTI-GROUP" VALUE="0"><!--webbot bot="SaveResults" endspan i-checksum="43374" --><P>
Choose one of the following options:</P>
<P>
<font size="4">I voted on the:</font></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME="VotedOn" VALUE="Question1" UNCHECKED>
Paper Ballot Optical Scan<br>
<INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME="VotedOn" VALUE="Question1" UNCHECKED> Touch screen Voting
<BR>
</P>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<font size="4">The voting system was:</font></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME="VotingSystem" VALUE="Question2" UNCHECKED>
Easy to use<br>
<INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME="VotingSystem" VALUE="Question2" UNCHECKED>
Somewhat Complicated<br>
<INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME="VotingSystem" VALUE="Question2" UNCHECKED>
Very complicated
<BR>
</P>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<font size="4">Compared to the Punch card voting, I liked the new system:</font></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME="Comparing" VALUE="Question3" UNCHECKED>
Better<br>
<INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME="Comparing" VALUE="Question3" UNCHECKED>
Same<br>
<INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME="Comparing" VALUE="Question3" UNCHECKED> Didn't like
</P>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<font size="4">The voting time on the new system was:</font></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME="VotingTime" VALUE="Question4" UNCHECKED>
Faster<br>
<INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME="VotingTime" VALUE="Question4" UNCHECKED>
Same<br>
<INPUT TYPE=RADIO NAME="VotingTime" VALUE="Question4" UNCHECKED>
Slower
<BR>
</P>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
Comments or Suggestions.....</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<TEXTAREA NAME="Comments" ROWS=5 COLS=35></TEXTAREA>
<BR>
</P>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Submit Form">
<INPUT TYPE=RESET VALUE="Reset Form">
</FORM>
<HR>
<H5>
Chicago Board of Election Commissioners<br>Copyright © 2006 [CBOE]. All rights reserved. <BR>
Revised:
<!--WEBBOT BOT=TimeStamp
S-Type="EDITED"
S-Format="%m/%d/%y" startspan
-->04/20/06<!--webbot bot="TimeStamp" i-checksum="12996" endspan --></H5>
</BODY>
</HTML>
TiGGi
04-20-2006, 03:33 PM
I tried it with IE and FF and it works!
arekdaset
04-20-2006, 05:02 PM
Thanks for trying. I am not seeing any results when I try it so it must be something on my end. Thanks again.
TiGGi
04-20-2006, 05:23 PM
well submition is working but you need to have something on the other end to catch data and process it. So your nortbots.htm page needs to have function to do this!
arekdaset
04-20-2006, 05:58 PM
would it have to be something like a receive function. When I put the file on the server it creates that norbots file on its own. I will post tomorrow because work is done now. Thanks for thehelp buddy.
TiGGi
04-21-2006, 09:30 AM
it would have to be your serverside catching the data from the form, so what serversides you have available to you (coldfusion, php, asp..)?
arekdaset
04-21-2006, 10:22 AM
Well since im using Front Page it is call Front Page Server Extensions. I really dont know where the heck that _derived/nortbots.htm came from. I never put that there. When I submit it keeps saying " You need to install the front page server extensions." checked with the admin and he said that they are installed on the server. So do you think this is a server issue?
arekdaset
04-21-2006, 10:24 AM
as a matter of fact I believe all those serversides are available. I know .asp is there and coldfusion because my boss makes .asp pages and I use Dreamweaver MX from time to time.
geraelindsey
04-22-2006, 02:15 AM
Ask you server admin to un-install and then re-install FP extensions. They may be corrupt.
TiGGi
04-24-2006, 09:43 AM
ok so lets say you have field called fieldABC
what you would do in colffusion is this:

To display data on the page: <cfoutput>#form.fieldABC#</cfoutput>
To email it:<cfmail from="from@email.com" to="to@email.com" subject="Subject Here" type="html">
#fieldABC#
</cfmail>
So you can do this for every field in your form. If you want you can also submit this data into the database!
arekdaset
04-24-2006, 11:24 AM
thanks for your help everyone. I appreciate everything but it seems these phony ass admin people here at my job get salty when you give them advice. So im saying **** em i'll let them deal with it.Thanks again peeps.