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Adding Folders with Contents with FormGen: Adding content: Folders and contents in the folders with Plone FormGen
Adding support for Re-Captcha: PloneFormGen has built-in support for Re-Captcha. This little howto-tells you how to enable it.
Create a Multi-Page Form: You can create a multi-page form as a chain of form folders.
Creating Content from PFG: This how-to covers simple creation of portal content from PloneFormGen. We'll create web pages from sample form submissions.
Creating Custom Validators: PloneFormGen allows you to create a custom field-input validator by specifying a TALES expression that will be used to validate input when it's submitted. This how-to explains what that means, and offers a few examples.
Customizing an Individual Thanks Page: It's not hard to customize the thanks page for an individual form. This trick is particularly useful for purposes like adding 'pay now' buttons.
Installing a JavaScript Event Handler in a Form: This how-to presents an example of using a PloneFormGen form override to enable a dynamic totalling function in an order form.
Overriding Field Defaults Dynamically: PloneFormGen allows you to supply dynamic field defaults by specifying a TALES expression in the Default Expression field of the overrides fieldset (sub-form). This how-to explains what that means, and offers a few examples.
Pass Form elements to External Method: A quick outline of how to pass request.form elements to an external method for file system processing
Restyle A Form: How to inject CSS into a form page to turn a label green ... or pretty much anything else.
Use a Selection Field to Pick Mail Destination: You may allow form users to use a selection field to choose a destination address for their form input.
Use an AT Vocabulary Manager Vocabulary in a Selection Field: You may use a simple vocabulary from AT Vocabulary Manager to populate the options of a selection or multiple-selection form field.
What's in a Request: If you're trying to use PloneFormGen overrides, you're going to need to use the request object. Here's a quick trick for exploring it.