Inserting a Form into an Article

Do you want to have the contact form pop up, replace the entire article, or just be a part of the article?

At this point I am looking for all your options. A pop up would be nice in our Welcome article, and part of various articles; maybe even an entire article.

Once I get it working, I suspect there will be several different requests.

Appreciate your taking the time to answer.
-- Bruce

The issue that we both faced was hiding email addresses from harvesters and spam. Simply embedding an rs-form into an article exposes the email address in the html. I sense that you have 2 options that will do what you want and hide emails:

Create individual pop-ups (one for each contact) or a generic form that you can call from an article or menu item.

• I cannot remember the site (this same q&a was in the old forums), but they took the first option. It means creating a pop-up for each of your contacts and embedding a call to that pop-up in the appropriate article. It looked very slick but, to me, presented maintenance issues when contacts changed. But, emails were not exposed.

• I created a generic contact form that has a number of features:

• a drop-down of all contacts is dynamically built from a small csv file. This file is the only piece needing maintenance. It contains a generic name (Office, President, etc) and the email(s) to whom the inquiry is to be sent. Only the names are exposed in the html.

• from anywhere on the site, I can call the form and even preset the contact and populate the message area with some text.

• On submission, I set the email address based on the contact selected.

Not quite what I am looking for.. To be more specific:
--I am looking to have either a link or a pop-up in the Welcome Article where someone would then be presented with a screen requesting their name, email, phone and a place to enter a question...which would then generate an email to the Congregation Office.
-- Another area that we are contemplating would be a front end for donations....Need to capture donor's name, address along with the amount and fund desired before the person is sent offsite to some money processing site (like PayPal, etc).

Bruce,
If the old forums were still available, the website that implemented pop-up, email forms was there. I just can't recall it. I believe it was called from both links within an article and from menu items. I wish my memory was better to point you there.

As for sending people off to a 3rd party cc processing service, I guess that all depends on how you want to handle it from your website. There were significant issues with joom-donation not receiving all success-messages back from 3rd party processors. The issue was narrowed down to the layers of security URJ implemented (due to hacks) but I don't think it was ever resolved. Again, this was a major discussion in the old forums.

Yes, there was a lot of valuable information in the old forums. We are reinventing the wheel here.

Mike, Thanks again....
I vaguely remember some documentation in the past. Guess I will try to contact URJ during the week.

It looked to me that the Joom-donation was way too expensive for our small congregation.

-- Bruce

I was one of the ones who made a separate form for each target email address. It isn't anywhere near as hard as you'd think, just repetitive. As for maintenance, I set up aliases such as president@sinaict.org, webmaster@sinaict.org, rabbi@sinaict.org, and so on. Each address is a forwarder to the person's "real" address. The aliases, not the individual's personal address, are tied to the forms. When there a change, I simply change the alias.

As to the more general question, I see that I don't have any current examples; but I've used popups on articles plenty of times. Depending upon the circumstances, I've displayed PDFs in popups; other types of content, including entire articles, in popups; and used both single- and multiple-times popups.

Oh, and by the way: the form doesn't have to be in a popup. You can see examples of each on our site, http://www.sinaict.org. The "Contact" leaves in the "Home" part of the menu open the forms in separate pages; but the other articles have popups linked to the little "envelope" icons.