Creating a subscription form

This page helps you to create a subscription form. Once you are done creating your form, view the HTML and copy it into the web page you want to have a subscribe form. For a step-by-step guide to making your subscription form, see Using New Subscribe Form.

Subscribe forms only show the lists that a specific list administrator has rights to.

Note

  • If you have changed the name of the server admin to be something other than Admin, this form is not going to work properly.
  • Your web forms is not going to work if the host name assigned to Aurea List Manager is incorrect. If your form is not working properly, check the URL to Web Interface in Utilities > Administration > Sites.

If you are not already on the New Subscribe Form page: In the left navigation bar, select Utilities > Web Forms > New Subscribe Form.

The table below explains the fields available on the page:

Field Name Description

Ask subscribers for name/Require password

Use this to select whether you want your form to ask for the subscriber's name and a password, and whether these are required or optional. The defaults you see for the subscribe form are set in Utilities > List Settings > Discussion Forum Interface > New Subscriber Requirements

Important

As of version 9.2, Aurea List Manager started inserting code for password validation into your subscribe form. Any subscribe forms created with Aurea List Manager 9.1 or earlier is no longer functional. You must update your subscribe form(s) using ListManager 9.2 or later.

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Confirmation

Use this to select whether or not you want your subscribers to confirm their membership, or what kind of welcome message they should receive. The options are:

  • Send One Confirmation Message: One confirmation message is sent, even if the subscriber subscribes to many lists. The confirmation sent is from the first list the member subscribed to. By replying to the confirmation message, subscribers are going to become normal members of all lists to which they have subscribed, and receive a hello message from each. It is strongly recommended you confirm all new memberships to prevent malicious people from signing up others to your lists.
  • Do Not Confirm and Send Only One Hello: The subscriber is not confirmed. A single hello message welcoming subscribers is sent from the first list subscribed to.
  • Do Not Confirm and Send a Hello Message for Each List: The subscriber is not confirmed. A hello message welcoming subscribers is going to be sent from every list subscribed to.
  • Do Not Confirm and Do Not Send a Hello Message: The subscriber is not confirmed, and no hello message welcoming the subscriber is going to be sent.

Destination URL (optional)

The URL subscribers are taken to after filling out your form. If no URL is specified, they are taken to a generic page thanking them for subscribing.

Note

Be sure to type the full path. For example, if you want to direct members to the Lyris web site, type:

http://www.lyris.com

If you leave out the http:// and only type www.lyris.com, Aurea List Manager inserts a path to a subscribe subfolder, so the full URL ends up being this:

http://<servername>/subscribe/www.lyris.com

Append subscribe information to destination URL

Set if you want to append subscribe information along with the URL when the form is passed along. This information includes the name and email address of the subscriber as well as the list name(s) and any demographic data that may be captured.

Show Confirming Web Page

If set to Yes, users are going to see a Aurea List Manager confirmation page after subscribing, informing them that they have successfully subscribed, or if they need to confirm their membership. They are taken immediately to the destination URL page if one is set above, otherwise they are taken to a generic Thank you for subscribing page

If set to No, the confirmation page does not appear, and the user is taken directly to the destination URL page (or generic page).

The default for this is set to Yes, and it is recommended that this confirming page be visible.

If no Destination URL is defined, and Show confirming web page is set to No, then when the subscriber submits the form, it does not redirect anywhere; the subscribe form page is just refreshed. It is advisable to either set the confirmation page to Yes, enter a destination URL, or both.

Lists

Select the Lists that subscribers can join. By default, only the list you are logged into is displayed. To select more lists, click Choose lists. You are taken to Utilities > Web Forms > New Subscribe Form > Choose Lists. You can only see lists that you are able to access with your administrative rights.

Demographics

By default, no demographic data is added. To add fields for users to fill in with demographic information, click Choose demographics. You are taken to Utilities > Web Forms > New Subscribe Form > Choose Demographic Fields.

If you request a date field, the user must enter it in one of the following formats:


yyyymmdd
yyyymmddhhmm
yyyymmdd hh:mm
yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss

Preview of your form

The subscribe form you have created is displayed here. When it looks right, click Get HTML You are taken to a page which displays the HTML for your form. Copy it and paste it into the HTML for the page you want to have your subscription form.