Creating an Email containing a Web site form

[Alan Morris]

I would like to write a generalised page which creates an email
containg the (calling) HTML form complete with the user populated
data.

In this way the appearance of the email will be just like the form
elements of the form that called the generalised page together with
the completed fields.

I can see that I can caputure the (blank) calling page itself in the
email by using the CreateMHTMLBody method of CDO. I can also see how I
can retreive the individual elements of the form using Request. But is
it possible to combine the two?

Any guidance greatly appreciated.

[Ray at]

You can create a form in an html e-mail just fine, but the action of the
form will have to be a fully qualified url to your site, like

<form action="http://yoursite.com/page.asp" ...>

If I were you though, I'd just send a link to a form on a website though.
Not every e-mail program will display the form (or any html) or allow
submission of forms.

Ray at work

"Alan Morris" <alan@address.withheld.com> wrote in message
news:1n3uovs8qisnu31s9j4uceh6rbbfcivb9i@4ax.com...

> I would like to write a generalised page which creates an email
> containg the (calling) HTML form complete with the user populated
> data.
>
> In this way the appearance of the email will be just like the form
> elements of the form that called the generalised page together with
> the completed fields.
>
> I can see that I can caputure the (blank) calling page itself in the
> email by using the CreateMHTMLBody method of CDO. I can also see how I
> can retreive the individual elements of the form using Request. But is
> it possible to combine the two?
>
> Any guidance greatly appreciated.
>
>

[Alan Morris]

Ray,

Thanks your suggestion on this, what I was trying to do is capture the
completed form (not just the form data fields) as filled out by the
user. The idea is to create a system to replace/emulate an existing
paper forms with EMail based forms.

So the email recipient 'sees' the form as completed by the user, and
is able to file as he/she would have done with a piece of paper.

I want the asp that actually creates the mail message to be general in
teh sense that it does it (te above) for any calling page.

Rgds

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:22:13 -0400, "Ray at <%=sLocation%>"
<myfirstname at lane34 dot com> wrote:

>You can create a form in an html e-mail just fine, but the action of the
>form will have to be a fully qualified url to your site, like
>
><form action="http://yoursite.com/page.asp" ...>
>
>If I were you though, I'd just send a link to a form on a website though.
>Not every e-mail program will display the form (or any html) or allow
>submission of forms.
>
>Ray at work
>
>"Alan Morris" <alan@address.withheld.com> wrote in message
>news:1n3uovs8qisnu31s9j4uceh6rbbfcivb9i@4ax.com.. .

>> I would like to write a generalised page which creates an email
>> containg the (calling) HTML form complete with the user populated
>> data.
>>
>> In this way the appearance of the email will be just like the form
>> elements of the form that called the generalised page together with
>> the completed fields.
>>
>> I can see that I can caputure the (blank) calling page itself in the
>> email by using the CreateMHTMLBody method of CDO. I can also see how I
>> can retreive the individual elements of the form using Request. But is
>> it possible to combine the two?
>>
>> Any guidance greatly appreciated.
>>
>>

>