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Application form teething problems
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:34 pm
by Welung666
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.
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:38 pm
by bigginger
Couldn't be bothered, so cut and pasted into a mail - sorry
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:43 pm
by Welung666
I know, I got it, consider yourself in the pile to be added, I'll send a confirmation email once your on the register ;)
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:49 pm
by bigginger
Cheers, Lee
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:13 am
by Welung666
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.
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:16 pm
by JimK
Lee, you might want to delete all your own personal infomation from the form...
And the tab order still needs tweaking.
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:48 pm
by alex_holden
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.
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:16 pm
by bigginger
On a Mac here as well
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:59 pm
by Welung666
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?
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:11 pm
by bigginger
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
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:15 pm
by alex_holden
As I said, you can fill it in and save it from Preview but not Safari.
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:54 pm
by bigginger
But I was using Acrobat, not a browser to fill it in and save, and it didn't want to cooperate
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:54 am
by alex_holden
Ah, Acrobat. Preview is much nicer because it uses
Quartz 2D's native PDF rendering engine.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:08 am
by Welung666
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.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:34 am
by alex_holden
Done.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:58 am
by Welung666
Got it
work ok your end?
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:26 am
by alex_holden
It seemed to work fine.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:41 am
by Welung666
Sorted then I hope
Thanks Alex
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:45 pm
by plastic_orange
Sorted for me too - well done folks.
Pete
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:41 pm
by Welung666
OK just re-tweaked the form as I forgot the registration and model fields