Oct 6th, 2009, 11:14 PM
(This post was last modified: Oct 6th, 2009, 11:25 PM by futuremedia.)
this is the way i use form tools as well, i also can't upgrade to 2.0 with out a lot of work and losing more features (that i would use) than i would gain. i assumed most people were using this method!
let me explain how i'm using it and offer two use cases as examples of why it is an efficient way to go about things.
-example-
to simplify things a little let's say we are a franchise like kinkos, bob goes to the kinkos website and finds his local store, these individual stores represent clients in FT.
bob sends a contact form from from the seattle store, it has a hidden field, 'store' with the value 'seattle'.
FT has a single contact form and the clients are filtered by the store field.
seattle and new york can see their own contact forms and corporate can see them all with an unfiltered account.
when a new franchise signs up it only takes a single step, creating a client account to get them going. to get the same functionality in 2.0 you have to create a client a view and an email that is based on the view for each new franchise. not a huge deal, but i have to do the same when i upgrade - we have 150ish franchises. that means 450 steps instead of 150.
-use cases-
say i want to add a new field to my forms - in 1.0 i just update the form and email with the new field. in 2.0 i update the form, 150 views and 150 emails.
in 1.0 if i want to change the displayed columns i make one change. in 2.0 i make 150.
these are sort of production line problems, i have other forms that have fewer clients that these new fangled features would benefit. the high volume widely dispersed production line forms are the ones that generate leads that actually bring in money though. there isn't another way to achieve the same results as simply, at least not that i can figure out.
being able to put a 'client variable' in the view filter would be a perfect solution. the emails also would need to have a 'client email variable'. then a single view and a single email would be able to do the work of 150 each.
in reality these aren't just contact pages, each is a full blown web site with half a dozen forms each. all of the forms on these sites work the same way. think production line.
let me explain how i'm using it and offer two use cases as examples of why it is an efficient way to go about things.
-example-
to simplify things a little let's say we are a franchise like kinkos, bob goes to the kinkos website and finds his local store, these individual stores represent clients in FT.
bob sends a contact form from from the seattle store, it has a hidden field, 'store' with the value 'seattle'.
FT has a single contact form and the clients are filtered by the store field.
seattle and new york can see their own contact forms and corporate can see them all with an unfiltered account.
when a new franchise signs up it only takes a single step, creating a client account to get them going. to get the same functionality in 2.0 you have to create a client a view and an email that is based on the view for each new franchise. not a huge deal, but i have to do the same when i upgrade - we have 150ish franchises. that means 450 steps instead of 150.
-use cases-
say i want to add a new field to my forms - in 1.0 i just update the form and email with the new field. in 2.0 i update the form, 150 views and 150 emails.
in 1.0 if i want to change the displayed columns i make one change. in 2.0 i make 150.
these are sort of production line problems, i have other forms that have fewer clients that these new fangled features would benefit. the high volume widely dispersed production line forms are the ones that generate leads that actually bring in money though. there isn't another way to achieve the same results as simply, at least not that i can figure out.
being able to put a 'client variable' in the view filter would be a perfect solution. the emails also would need to have a 'client email variable'. then a single view and a single email would be able to do the work of 150 each.
in reality these aren't just contact pages, each is a full blown web site with half a dozen forms each. all of the forms on these sites work the same way. think production line.