Creating a data capturing form (example included)

[Robejohn Studio2]

Hey, I'm pretty new to muse and I'm trying to work out if it's possible to create something like you see on this site:

http://legacyvoice.co.uk/

I want a form that captures the data before allowing a download of a PDF. Is there a widget for this or something I can do?

Thanks so much for any help!

[Nancy OShea]

Simple things are rarely as simple as people think.  

What will the form data be used for?

What if the user enters a bogus email, will they still receive the download?

Why not just give people  a direct link to the PDF file?

What does your server support in the way of server-side scripts and databases?

[Günter Heißenbüttel · Accepted solution]

Something like this very simple to achieve „out of the box“ (sorry for that, Nancy 😞

• Place a form widget, which collects the data, you need.
• Create a new page, which contains a download button for the PDF by placing an element of your choice and using the „Hyperlink“ command in Muse‘s upper control strip to link it to your PDF document.
• Make sure, that this newly created page doesn‘t appear in your menus by right clicking the page icon in plan mode and choosing the menu option „Exclude Page from Menus“.
• Now open the configuration panel of you form by clicking onto the small blue arrow icon top right of the widget.
• Configure the „After Sending“ option to jump to your PDF page.

(The wording of the commands might be slightly different, because I am not sitting in front of my computer. Sorry for that!)

[Nancy OShea]

But what if the OP's server doesn't support PHP scripts?

What if they want to collect data and store it in an online database or send it to a mailing list service like Mailchimp?

And what if the email address given is fake?

I am very reluctant to suggest an out of the box soluiton that might not be right for the job.

[Günter Heißenbüttel]

Don’t worry! In this case he certainly will ask again.

I bet, he doesn’t intend to use a backend data base.