change the Subject line in an e-mail

[heuning]

I'm using a form to collect data from users (this is on my company's intranet).
They click on submit to e-mail the data back to me. No problem so far.
Here's my question: The subject line in the e-mail defaults to "Form posted
from Microsoft Internet Explorer". Is there a way to control what is in the
subject line?

I'm new to all this and appreciate any help you can offer!

Thanks
:confused;

[Whittemore]

Insert this into the HTML of your form...

<input type=hidden name="subject" value="type whatever your subject is">

[heuning]

Thanks for the help, but this does not really do what I need. Your line
inserts another line in the BODY of the e-mail.

What I would like to do, is change the SUBJECT line of the e-mail. Any
suggestions how to do this?

[Whittemore]

That's interesting. Are you using FormMail?

[heuning]

What is FormMail?? I am using DW8 and I am tweaking the HTML and Java...

[Whittemore]

These guys can explain better than I. [url]http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html[/url]

Did you put this line between your <form> and </form> brackets?
<input type=hidden name="subject" value="type whatever your subject is">

If so, This might be a Javascript issue.

[heuning]

Hi Whittemore

Thanks for this link!! I have looked into this and see that it will require
from installing some script on the server (if I understand it correctly!) This
is going to be a problem for me, as I'm doing our departmental website on the
company's intranet, and I don't have the permissions to install things on the
server...

Is there any other way that I can manipulate the generation of an e-mail
message?

Thanks for your help.

[heuning]

Hi again

I found the answer. It's easier than I thought! If you simply change the
mailto bit to:

action="mailto: [email]adres@domain.com[/email]?subject=XXX"

it changes the subject of the e-mail to XXX. I found this at:
[url]http://www.htmlbasix.com/forms.shtml[/url]

[Whittemore]

Your welcome.
Can I see your html?

[Whittemore]

I'm glad you figured it out!!

[heuning]

Here's the "opening line" of the <form>:

<form name="rmsurvey" method="post" action="mailto:
[email]adres@domain.com[/email]?subject=XXX" ENCTYPE="text/plain">
...and then follows the whole lot of the form, tables, input fields, etc...

So, it's really simple to hard code the XXX, but that's not good enough for
what I want to do. Now I need to figure out how to manipulate the XXX
dynamically.

I want XXX to = input field YYY (which is one of the fields the user has to
complete)

If you have any ideas, please let me know!

Thanks

[heuning]

Well, the users have to input about 20 different fields. One of these will be
very useful to have as the subject line of the e-mail, as the recipients of the
e-mails need to identify and prioritise the e-mails on receipt. So, what I
want to do, is have the subject line display: "Request re: YYY". YYY = one of
those 20 input fields.

Where do I start? (I'm new to this, and have never written HTML before ...
it's quite exciting to experiment!)