Form widget

Use this widget to display all kind of forms you have created with the form builder.

PREREQUISITES: You have created at least one form. For more information, see Forms.

After you have dragged the Form widget on your page you must configure it to display a form.

  1. To do this, click Edit button in the upper-right corner of the widget.
    The Select a form window appears displaying a list of all created forms.
  2. Select the form you want to display on the page.
    If you want to display more than one form, you must add the Form widget more than one times.
  3. Click Settings.
  4. Under Confirmation options, select if you want to Use custom confirmation.
    This way the form displayed with the current form widget will have a confirmation different than the one configured in the form’s settings. For more information, see Design forms » Step 4.
  5. In this radio button group, you choose what happens after a user submits the form.
    Select one of the following:
    • Show message for success
      A textbox appears, where you define the success message that appears when a user submits the form.
    • Redirect to a page…
      After submitting the form the system redirects the user to another page of the website.
      In the input field that appears, enter the URL of the page from your website, which you want to open when the form is submitted. For example, About-us.
  6. When you are finished, click Done selecting.
    The Select a form window closes and the Form widget is configured to display the form you have selected.
    To test it, in the toolbar of page content editing mode, click Preview button.

NOTE: If your site is multilingual and the page you are editing is synchronized with another translation, when you edit the widget, the Save to all translations button appears. If you click it, the current widget configuration will be saved to all translations, else, if you click Save, the widget configuration is saves only to the current translation, but the pages are still synchronized. If your pages are synchronized, you can have different widget configurations, but you cannot have different widgets.

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