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  • GovCMS Content Administration Training Manual
  • Contributing and Feedback Guide
  • Introduction to GovCMS
    • Introduction to GovCMS
    • Overview of user roles
  • Training Videos
    • GovCMS how-to videos
  • Unit 1: Intro to the Admin Backend
    • How to login to GovCMS
      • Exercise 1.1 - Login and Setting up TFA
    • How to log out from your site
    • Administration menu overview
      • Exercise 1.3 - Add a non-admin user
    • The Frontend Homepage Layout
      • Exercise 1.2 - View the Site Frontend content
    • How to access the content management area
    • Overview of content management area
    • Content management - filters overview
      • Exercise 1.4 - Filtering Content
  • Unit 2: More about GovCMS
    • Content types overview
    • Overview of content create/edit form
    • Form fields and form widgets
    • Fields and properties
    • Structured content in GovCMS
    • Overview of Rich text editor
    • Embedding media files
    • Text format
    • Content references in GovCMS
  • UNIT 3: MANAGING CONTENT IN GOVCMS
    • Creating Content
      • Exercise 3.1 - Create some content
    • Editing content
      • Exercise 3.3 - Edit a piece of content
    • Archiving content
      • Exercise 3.4 - Archiving content
    • How content changes can affect the site
  • UNIT 4: MANAGING CONTENT REVISIONS
    • Managing content revisions
      • Exercise 4.1 - View revisions history
      • Exercise 4.2 - Revert a content revision
  • UNIT 5: CONTENT MODERATION IN GOVCMS
    • Content moderation in GovCMS
      • Exercise 5.1 - Content moderation
  • UNIT 6: Files and media assets
    • Managing files and media assets in GovCMS
    • Media library
      • Exercise 6.1 - Uploading and using media
      • Exercise 6.2 - Manage media - Bulk Operations
  • UNIT 7: MANAGING URL ALIASES AND REDIRECTS
    • URL aliases and redirects
      • Exercise 7.1 - Update a page's URL alias
      • Exercise 7.2 - Create a URL alias
      • Exercise 7.3 - Create a Redirect (advanced)
  • UNIT 8: META TAGS AND SEO
    • Meta tags and SEO
    • Tokens and default meta tags
      • Exercise 8.1 - Update meta tags of content
  • UNIT 9: USING TAXONOMY TO CATEGORIZE CONTENT AND MEDIA
    • Taxonomy and Vocabulary
    • Overview of Taxonomy form widgets
      • Exercise 9.1 - Add taxonomy terms
      • Exercise 9.2 - Add taxonomy to a Page
  • UNIT 10: MANAGING SITE NAVIGATIONS AND BREADCRUMBS
    • About site navigation
    • About breadcrumbs
    • Managing menu items
      • Exercise 10.1 - Add an item to a menu
  • UNIT 11: CAPTURING DATA WITH FORMS
    • Capturing data with forms
      • Exercise 11.1 - Create a basic Webform
    • Webform components
      • Exercise 11.2 - Attach a form to a Webform page
      • Exercise 11.3 - Create an event registration form
  • UNIT 12: ADVANCED CONTENT EDITING
    • Advanced content editing
    • Advanced - content bulk operations
      • Exercise 12.2 - Bulk operations - delete test content
  • Appendix A - Glossary
    • Glossary
  • About Salsa Digital
    • Who is Salsa Digital?
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  1. UNIT 11: CAPTURING DATA WITH FORMS

Webform components

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Webform components can be used to collect different types of data. Different elements can be added to a Form using similar steps to the way a Text field was added in .

To see all the elements available when creating or editing a form, click on Structure on the Admin menu then hover over Webforms then click on Forms.

Click on the Build button to the right hand side of a selected form, as shown in the screenshot below.

Click on the +Add element button to the top left of the screen.

You will see a long list of available components. Scroll down to see them all. The screenshots below show some examples from Basic elements, Advanced elements, File upload elements and Options elements.

Webform options

The Settings tab contains some useful advanced options.

  1. To access these options, click on the Settings menu.

  2. Click on the various 'second level' menu items (General, Form, Submissions, Confirmation, Emails/Handlers, CSS/JS, Access) to view the options available.

In the sceenshot below, the form is configured to direct a site visitor to a Confirmation Page (3). The Confirmation title and Confirmation message (4) can be customised as shown in the screenshot.

Some of the more important and commonly used options are outlined in the table below.

Option

Description

Confirmation message

Displays a custom message to the user, such as “Thank you for filling out our feedback form. Someone will be in contact with you within the next 48 hours.”

Redirection location

You may redirect users to another page using this advanced setting. For example, you could create a "Thank you" page that’s used for all your form submissions.

Tip: Be careful creating a "Thank you" page as it may appear on other pages, such as search results.

Submission limits

You can control how often a form can be submitted using the two "submission limit" fields.

Tip: Submission limits can be tricky. For example, if you’re collecting anonymous information the system has limited ways of knowing if a site visitor has already submitted the form and it’s also possible to trick the webform into accepting multiple submissions.

And many more...

The GovCMS Webform provides great flexibility. Have a look through the other options to familiarise yourself with the form.

Exercise 11.1
Showing the Build button for the webform
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