Web Forms in paragraphs

Select an existing paragraph with no object on it or add a new paragraph where to add your (  ) form object . Below the field list use the add, modify, delete buttons and change the order of the form fields you want to use. Different types of fields are available (text, selection list, email, date, ...) and you can change their properties to your needs (name, size, if field is mandatory or not, ...).

Remark : since version 7.09, TOWeb allows you to make your forms compliant with the GRDP (General Regulation on Data Protection).

Then select the type of form to use with the "Form settings" button. From there you will be able to activate or deactivate a captcha on your form.
In order to receive the form content by email you must setup a form action. We advise you to turn and use the i-Service Form of TOWeb ( Settings > i-Services screen ).

Mailing list : subscription form and list of contacts)
Polls : create surveys on your website to get feedback from your visitors
Comments : authorize visitors/customers to post their comments to a paragraphs, photos or products

All email addresses displayed in the text of your website can be viewed and used by internet robots scanning the content of your web site and your email could by used and spammed thereafter. To avoid receiving spams from malicious robots or scripts or even some visitors, it is first preferable to use web forms instead of just showing your email address but also to activate visual codes called captcha on your web forms so that only human beings can send you emails and no web robots. This protection level forms can be activated from screen "Settings > Security & HTML" by using then option Add a "captcha" code verification to your forms.

The Google ReCAPTCHA service is also supported (a version 8 of TOWeb or higher is required). Its use on your site requires to have a Google account and enter in TOWeb your 2 ReCAPTCHA keys communicated by Google. To do that your first need to connect to your admin ReCaptcha page and use the "+" button:

and then:

1- enter a label for the name of your site
2- select the "reCAPTCHA V2" option
3- add the domain name of your website where this ReCaptcha will be used (be careful not to put a web address starting with https: // or http: // but only the name of your domain)
4- accept the terms of use of Google
5- and click on "Submit"

Once created, you just need to click on the "COPY SITE KEY" button to do a "paste" into TOWeb and proceed the same way with the "COPY SECRET KEY" button.

Note: if, for a particular form on a topic of your website, you want to disable this you can do it by checking the option "Disable the captcha security form" located in the properties of the web form you added to a topic paragraph.

If you wish, you can add a "File" field to your form so that your visitors can send you a document, photo or other type of digital file.
However, pay attention to the size limit you indicate as it is not because you choose 100MB for example (size now possible since version 11.07) that this will work. Indeed, on the one hand the maximum size for sending a file via form on a web server depends on that fixed by your host but also on the maximum size per file authorized by the provider of your electronic mail that you indicated in email reception.
Other tips and recommendations on file transfers between your visitors and you via form:

• In your form, we recommend to tell your visitors to send ALL their files in a single compressed file in ZIP format (which is the most common format and natively supported by almost all systems).
• For very large files but also for more security (both for your hosting server but also for Internet users who send you their documents) it is best to inform your visitors to use a cloud or online transfer service (such as https://wetransfer.com for example which is free) in order to provide you with the direct download link of their files. By adding your instructions in your form as well as a URL field and a password field, your visitors will be able to communicate to you the download link of their compressed ZIP file as well as the possible password if their file has been protected for added security.

• First, check that you have correctly created your form and entered your email address without typing a typo (character instead of another, space, ...)
• Then check that you do not have an active spam filter either in the email software installed on your computer or in your email account by connecting directly to the website of your email provider (this is the case for most of them such as Hotmail, Yahoo, or GMail). Some spam filters not only take into account the sender's email address but also analyze the content of emails to determine if it is a spam or not and can sometimes wrongly consider some email issued from your site as spam. In general, such filters simply place these emails in a special folder (spam, junk, ...) to allow you to consult them and correct any errors if some email should not be placed there. If your anti-spam is configured to systematically delete unwanted emails then deactivate this option in order to keep them.
• Also check that no internet security software is blocking the sending of data over the internet. To do this, try to place a test order from your computer as well as another from a computer other than yours (by asking for example a friend or a person of your family to make a test). If you receive the content of the form via another computer then the problem comes from the configuration of your internet browser or a security software responsible for blocking the sending. In this case check the internet security options of your browser and restore the security options to normal or default level. If this still does not work, temporarily disable your computer's security software (antivirus, firewalls, etc.) in order to identify which one is responsible for the blocking, and refer to their documentation to authorize sending form data from your site.
• Check that you have activated the i-Service Form.

IMPORTANT : If you are using a version 4 or older of TOWeb, as announced in May 2020 in the TOWeb blog and effective since July 2020, the emailing service of lauyan.com is now stopped for orders and forms as well.
To be able to continue receiving emails from your site with your old TOWeb version, you will need to select the "form to mail i-service" option (indicated as being the recommended one) located in the "Options > e-Commerce > Submitted orders configuration" screen, and then republish your site.