Ektron CMS400.NET User Manual

Field Description
Working with HTML Forms
Field Name Enter a name for this field. This text identifies the field in the database and in
email if the form is mailed.
Note: You cannot enter spaces nor most special characters
(!@#$%^&*()+=,.:;’"{}[]|‘~) into this field. If you do, they are replaced by
underscores.
Tool Tip Text Enter text that appears when a site visitor hovers the cursor over this field
(circled in red below).
Default
value
If you want to set a default value for this field, enter it here. For example, if this
field collects a city, and most users enter New York, enter New York as the
value.
Regardless of the default value, the site visitor can change it while completing
the screen.
Validation Select the kind of validation to apply to this field. The choices are:
Error
Message
• No validation - response is not checked
• Cannot be blank - Response is required. The format of the response is
not checked.
• Allow maximum of 1000 characters - Site visitor’s entry cannot exceed
1000 characters.
If you assign to this field any value other than No validation, the field is
surrounded by red dashes when it appears on your Web site.
Enter text that appears on the screen if the site visitor‘s response to this field
does not satisfy the validation criterion.
For example, if the validation criterion is Cannot be blank, the error message
could be Please enter a response.
By default, the error message is the same as the validation criterion you
choose. You can use this field to customize its text.
Note: You can only enter double-byte characters if your Windows settings
include that language. If you enter characters that are not in a language
defined in your Windows settings, question marks (?) appear instead of the
characters.
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