Using the Form Inventory

When your viewers click the form's Submit button, the browser sends the contents of the form to a specified server and script for processing. The most common workflow is to pass information to a CGI script. You'll need to develop your custom scripts and work with the system administrator to implement them.

The Form Inventory dialog box lets you preview how the information will be returned by your form. This is especially useful if the tasks of graphical form creation and Web server integration are accomplished by different persons--for example, a Web author and a system administrator.

The Form Inventory dialog box has two panes. The top pane lists all form elements used--the form inventory. The bottom pane is the Form Result Preview pane, which displays the code exactly as it will be passed to the script on the server. You can save the content of both panes as separate text files.

To create Form Inventory text files:

1. Click the Forms element handle in the document window.
2. In the Form Inspector, click the Inventory button.
3. Select Export for the form inventory and the result preview, then name and save the text files.