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I thought the "email" attribute was a useful feature. Any chance it will ever be available again?

I have added the mail form module to my website. But the validation rule required = true does seem to work….here is the code i used.

[[module MailForm title="New message from MailForm documentation page"]]

1. name
   • title: Name
   • type: text
   • rules:
     • required: true
2. email
   • title: E-mail
   • type: text
   • hint: Enter the e-mail address to get a reply to your e-mail
3. website
   • type: text
   • title: Web site
   • hint: Optional
4. message
   • type: textarea
   • title: Message
   • rules:
     • required: true

[[/module]]

You could define the email address, but that has been changed and you can no longer do that.

You can't change the text in the send button.

Brunhilda,

I like Jotform for its flexibility and features, including specifying the list of recipients (a simple list of comma-separated e-mail addresses) and the ability to change the text on the submit button. I used it to create a contact form and an order form on my friend's site.

They are easy to style and embed into your site. The free account limits you to 100 submissions per month, which we haven't come close to yet (that would be a nice problem to have!). It's only $9.00 a month if you exceed that.

-Ed

That would be a good solution. I am a big Jotform fan as well, but I'd rather have a Wikidot option for mail forms. It would be a pain to replace all my forms with third-party services now…

There are reasons to not allow arbitrary email addresses. If Wikidot's email servers are used to send out spam, we could be blacklisted.

We're going to add the option to send the email to registered Wikidot user names.

Are those three dots obligatory, or you put it there because something is missing? Shoud I write it like this?

[[module MailForm … to="brunhlda"]]

or

[[module MailForm to="brunhilda"]]

or something else?

Unlikely, we've kind of exhausted our MailForm budget.

I'll explain the plan with MailForm. The module will be killed at some future stage and replaced with data forms + private categories + notifications. This fits better with the wiki workflow model:

• Visitor enters data into a form, creating a new page in a private category
• Members watching that category get a notification email
• Data is held safely on wiki page where it can be ListPaged and commented

Forms will eventually include photos and files.

In the meantime, you'll have to use a more manual process, e.g. invite submitters to a private wiki, give them a page and help them put their submission up.

If submissions are public you can do something like HeresMyCV.com does, i.e. allow people just to create their pages.

I think at least part of what you want was just announced a couple days ago:
http://blog.wikidot.com/blog:new-template-variables

-Ed

I'd understand if you guys are getting tired of hearing about this topic

We never get tired of it :-)

We made it work. You need to include the MailForm module in the template and use 'to="%%created_by%%"' to send an email to the author of the page. Do not use %%author%% because that inserts a linked name + icon, which totally does not work as a 'to' value. You can specify the title of the email as the title of the page. You can, as far as I know, use any of the template variables in the MailForm.

Please try this, tell me if it does not work.