BformMail Program

This is an extension of FormMail which you can use to gather form data into a comma delaminated file. This is how CID is currently gather online form data such as Course/Instructor evaluation forms. The file gives us the ability to take the raw data and perform various statistical analysis functions on the data. If we used FormMail all the data would have to be manually entered into a program such as SPSS. Currently, faculty and staff do not have access to this program. If you wish to have access to BformMail you will need to have additional training.

The only difference between FormMail and BformMail is with a couple of Form Action commands.

<FORM ACTION="http://www.stfrancis.edu/forms/bformmail.cgi" METHOD="POST">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="recipient" VALUE="gkickul@stfrancis.edu">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="subject" VALUE="Graduate Evaluation Form">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="redirect" VALUE="http://www.stfrancis.edu/lspace/evaluate/thankevl.htm">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="required" VALUE="course code,expected grade,semester">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="append_db" VALUE="./formdata/grdfile.dat">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="db_fields" VALUE="course code,expected grade, semester, eval1,eval2,eval3,eval4,eval5,eval6,eval7,eval8,eval9,eval10,eval11,eval12,eval13, eval 14,
eval15,eval16,eval17,eval18,eval19,eval20,eval21,eval22,eval23,relevance to prof goals,
instructor knowledge,learning Experiences,best aspects,Course improvements,Improve Services">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="db_delimiter" VALUE="|">

Here is a non-data use of a form that can control navigation within your web page. I use this to return the use to a web page when I don’t know for sure where they came from. The key line is the onClick=history.go(-#) tag. Simply enter the desired number and the browser will move back the indicated number of web pages.

<CENTER>
<FORM name="back">
<INPUT type="button" value="Return to your WebCT Course" onClick=history.go(-2)>
</FORM>
</CENTER>

Example: Within WebCT we link the students out to the USF web site to complete the Course/Instructor evaluations. Since we have over 40 courses running I don’t know for sure which course they came from so a simple back button will not work. After completing the questionnaires I send them to a thank you page and include the above form script. Once they click the button (a submit button) the computer sends them back two web page in this example.

Cool trick Hey.