Overview

Adapters control what happens to the form data that your site visitors submit the form. The Mailer Adapter will send form data to an email address or addresses of your choosing. The Save Data Adapter will save the results in your Form Folder so that you can export any time you wish. You can even use adapters concurrently to get the functionality of both.

Configuring the Mailer Adapter

The Mailer Adapter is probably the more complex of the two adapters covered in this tutorial. As such, we won't go through and explain all the options present in the Mailer Adapter. However, we will cover the most important options available.

Go ahead and edit the Mailer Adapter in the form editing environment. The first screen you see look like this:

From here you can do three things:

• Change the Title of your Mailer Adapter (really no reason to unless you have more than one)
• Choose a recipient name
• Choose a recipient email address

Addressing

Now notice the tabs [default][addressing] and so on. Click on [addressing].

The Addressing screen allows you to make selections about other recipients any dynamically populate the From and Reply-to fields directly from form data.

Message

The Message tab allows you to configure the:

• Subject Line
• Email body content
• Form field data that appears in the email message

Template, Encryption, & Overrides

These options are beyond the scope of this tutorial as they require a discussion of HTML, TALES and Python programming languages as well as an understanding of mail server configuration. For more information on customizing PloneFormGen, visit the product site on Plone.Org.