First we are going to cover the text field. When you click on fields in configuration you will see something like this: Fields List. Notice the check mark in the text field. This is the field we are going to cover first. For our purposes we are using our sales template which is already populated with fields. In creating a new field you only have to click on new which we will look at after the reviewing the field types and the available options.
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When you click on edit you will see this: Text Field. Notice the arrows at the top of the field. The first one points to the order that the field appears in on the table. The second arrow points to reference name you give for the field. This name appears only in the configuration mode (see below for what appears in Admin). And the type refers to the text field. This is a drop down list to select the type of field you want. More on this later. When you select the size arrow you'll see: Size of Field. This goes up to a maximum of 100 characters. This is the setting for what will appear on width of the field. The field below it determines the maximum allowed characters that can be entered in this field, which can be set to max of 200. The second size field does not apply to text fields.
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The next field, "List Src" pictured here.we will cover later. Below that is the "Input by End User" selection. Select "Yes" if you want this field to appear on the web page. Below that are the Input prompts. Make sure the top Input field is blank if you have selected "No" on Input by End User. These are the prompts that will appear when accessing them either on the web page (for user input), or in the admin area when accessing them via admin. Default value is entered only when you want to see a default value for the entry until it is changed.
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The group field will be covered at a later time. Click here to go to that page now: Group Field. The next field determines whether this is a required field, meaning that someone has to put something in it to before form can be submitted (this applies only to fields that appear on the web page. The next few fields, (search fields) pictured here are used to determine the type of searches that can be done. First you have the searchable field for Admin. If you have the type of database that can be accessed by the public (usually only for membership sites), you would say yes to the public site, otherwise say "no". If this is a Name field you probably want it to be partially searchable and usually a name field is a primary field so you would want this to be indexed for faster searching. Keep in mind that you are limited to 10 indexes per data table.
This concludes our discussion of text fields, except to say that you can add html elements to the text fields, such as to adjust size, color, etc., to determine how the prompts appears e.g., when using color code use Name*: This displays the field prompt "Name*:" in red. This type of code can be used in the Input Prompt or Admin Prompt to display a particular word(s) in a specified size or color.
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