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Forms - Courtesy Reply Message

When a user completes a form, you can send an automatically-generated email response. This helps assure the user that the information they submitted was properly received.

NOTE: If you want to use this feature, you must have the user include their complete email addresses in a field named email within the form. 

• Fields for the Courtesy Reply Message
• Inserting the Optional Hidden Form Fields

Fields for the Courtesy Reply Message

The following table illustrates the field names and values that can be used in your courtesy reply message.

Field Name	Value
courtesy_reply	The word yes
courtesy_reply_texta	The first line of your courtesy reply text (e.g., Thank you for taking the time ...).
courtesy_reply_textb	The second line of your courtesy reply text (e.g., Call us if you need anything ...).
courtesy_who_we_are	How you would like to be identified (e.g., CNS Web Dev). HINT:  A second line can be displayed by having another field with the name: 'courtesy_who_we_are2'.
courtesy_our_url	The URL which will be inserted in the footer of the automated reply (e.g., http://www.uwec.edu/yourdir/).
courtesy_our_email	If you want to put your mailto address in the footer of the reply, enter that value here (e.g., web@uwec.edu).

Inserting the Optional Hidden Form Fields

1. Place your cursor within the form boundary where you would like to insert the form field
   For information on inserting a form boundary, refer to Creating Forms.

2. From the Insert menu, select Form Objects » Hidden Field
   OR
   From the Forms tab on the Insert bar, click HIDDEN FIELD
   The hidden field will appear.

3. Select the hidden field by clicking it once
   The Hidden Field properties pane appears.
   

4. In the Hidden Field text box, type the name for the hidden field

5. In the Value text box, type the value for the hidden field

6. Repeat steps 1-5 until you have entered all the needed hidden form fields