Application form teething problems

Post by **Welung666** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:34 pm

It seems a few people are having some trouble with the online application form. I'll try and get a help page up sometime tomorrow but if your struggling I have an easier way ;). Once you have completed the form use the save option in Acrobat Reader to save it to your local hard drive, then add it as an attachment to a normal email directly to me. The email address you will need to send it to is join@morrisminors.uk.com .

Hope thats of help.

Post by **bigginger** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:38 pm

Couldn't be bothered, so cut and pasted into a mail - sorry

Post by **Welung666** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:43 pm

I know, I got it, consider yourself in the pile to be added, I'll send a confirmation email once your on the register ;)

Post by **bigginger** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:49 pm

Cheers, Lee

Post by **Welung666** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:13 am

I think I've managed to sort out the textline errors that were coming up on the form and resorted the tab order so if your anti-mouse like me you'll find it a bit easier to fill in. As for the emailing problem I'll have a bash tonight when I get home from work although I suspect a lot of it is to do with the default email program on each individual PC. Being XP mine defaults to Outlook Express (YUKKIE) so I've set outlook to use my hotmail account and the form works fine for me now. Maybe an option for some but not all I fear.

Post by **JimK** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:16 pm

Lee, you might want to delete all your own personal infomation from the form...

And the tab order still needs tweaking.

Post by **alex_holden** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:48 pm

I just tried it on a Mac. The buttons at the bottom don't do anything, and if you save it from Safari you lose any changes you made to it, but if you then open it in Preview you can make changes and save them. I agree the tab ordering is weird.

Post by **bigginger** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:16 pm

On a Mac here as well

Post by **Welung666** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:59 pm

Remind me never to edit a PDF form in a hurry again

All removed now! Right guys, especially you Mac users, any ideas on an online style form that would work for you guys? Maybe a 'proper' online form in pure HTML for example?

Post by **bigginger** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:11 pm

In theory, the PDF will work fine on the Mac, at the least to be 'fill inable and saveable'. I'll have a look later and see

Post by **alex_holden** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:15 pm

As I said, you can fill it in and save it from Preview but not Safari.

Post by **bigginger** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:54 pm

But I was using Acrobat, not a browser to fill it in and save, and it didn't want to cooperate

Post by **alex_holden** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:54 am

Ah, Acrobat. Preview is much nicer because it uses Quartz 2D's native PDF rendering engine.

Post by **Welung666** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:08 am

Right I've had a play and changed the signup page a bit! The PDF is still there (without the buttons now) so it can be filled in and just printed, I've also added an online form with a remote collection point!

alex_holden, could you try it out for me on your Mac? If you go back to the signup page and click the online application form link and it hould open a new window with a list of field. Let me know when you've done it (doesn't have to be accurate info, just as a test run ;) ) and I'll check it again.

Thanks a lot guys for your patience.

Post by **alex_holden** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:34 am

Done.

Post by **Welung666** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:58 am

Got it

work ok your end?

Post by **alex_holden** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:26 am

It seemed to work fine.

Post by **Welung666** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:41 am

Sorted then I hope

Thanks Alex

Post by **plastic_orange** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:45 pm

Sorted for me too - well done folks.

Pete

Post by **Welung666** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:41 pm

OK just re-tweaked the form as I forgot the registration and model fields