ProForm 2.5 User Manual download pdf (Page 44)

Mooj Proforms’ User Manual

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Dipl.

Informatiker (FH) Fahrettin Kutyol

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24.09.2012

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3.1.2.

First steps after installation and the general workflow

Very first step is editing the configuration

The very first thing you should do is to adapt Proform’s configuration to your needs.

1. Change the main email address.

This is the address where every email will be sent if the category of a form or the form

itself doesn’t contain a custom address.

2. Set the from-name.

This is the name which will be displayed if your Proforms sends emails to users.

3. Set the from-email-address.

This is the reply address for confirmation and all other emails sent to your users.

4. Set the character set of your mails.

This is set default to UTF-8. Please check first which character set your Joomla®

template has. The character set of the Joomla® template and the character set of the

mails must be equal.

5. Assign if you like to receive HTML emails or plaint text emails.

6. Click the “Display” tab. Assign the colour of the help icons.

The from-name and the from-email-address will also be used in emails to yourself (admin

mails) if you don’t assign a unique-email-address-field in your form.

Creating categories

If you like to organize your forms you need to create some categories.

If you like to use multi lingual forms you should create categories with the language names

such as: “Contact English”, “Contact German”, “Contact French”.

The General workflow

1. Make a brainstorming to find out if you need to create multiple forms which are

using common sections such as for address information.

2. Split the whole form into sections. And create a form template for each section.

3. Form template: Step1 – Assign the layout, Step2 – Add the form elements.

4. Create your form: Assign and combine the form templates at the form creation.

5. Publish your form

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