I'm brand new to Max7 and am currently using the web inquiry form wizard in Max.

Has anyone use this feature before and is it true that the data from the web form can go into an email which can be incorporated directly into the respective fields in the address book?

(e.g. 'First Name' on the form goes directly into the 'First Name' of the contact in address book?)

Also, anything I should watch over for when using this function?

We have only got the Windows version to run successfully (on IIS) with an SMTP Mail Server.

I believe that someone has got a working version of the Perl script but i'm not sure who.

As you have probably gathered the standard Maximizer Perl generated script doesn't work (or at least i've never got it to work)

knowledge of HTML is a definate advantage.

It has been a while but if i remember rightly i needed to make some modifications to the HTML (specifically adding our mail server)

Also, i think i had to authorise the web server to be able to relay through the mail server (used Exchange2k)

Regards
CABC Support

>is it true that the data from the web form can go into an email which
>can be incorporated directly into the respective fields in the
>address book?
>
>(e.g. 'First Name' on the form goes directly into the 'First Name' of
>the contact in address book?)

Yes, that's how it works. When the user submits the web form, an Email message is sent to you with a Maximizer attachment (.mti file) containing the data. On receipt of the message, you just open the attachment and the data is imported into the address book you choose.

>I believe that someone has got a working version of the Perl script
>but i'm not sure who.
>
>As you have probably gathered the standard Maximizer Perl generated
>script doesn't work (or at least i've never got it to work)

Maximizer 7.0 supplied a script that wouldn't work under certain common webserver configurations. I posted a corrected version here a while back (ref: Winqcgi.pl - Nowt but grief.....), but the file I attached was never approved by a moderator. (They never are .) Still, if you're planning to use the Perl (CGI) version you should read that thread; it might help.

(I'm told that the script included with version 7.5 has been fixed.)

>if i remember rightly i needed to make some modifications to the HTML
>(specifically adding our mail server)

You may have to modify the <FORM> line to point at the actual location of the Perl script. For example:

<FORM action="/cgi-bin/winqcgi.pl" method="post" name="mtiform">

Depending on where your /cgi-bin directory is located, you may have to edit the 'action' attribute to indicate the correct path for your particular setup.

>Also, i think i had to authorise the web server to be able to relay
>through the mail server

Yes, the web server needs to be able to actually send the message....

A BIG THANK YOU to all that helped.

Upon review with our tech guys here, we decided that this is probably too much of a hassle for our purposes anyways.

The description in the manual about this web feature is severely misrepresented in terms of the ease of use and implementation.

Anyways, thanks again for the prompt replies!