Trying to create a form

Many thanks, I'll go through this in the next day or so and hopefully make some progress. First I need to put the committee straight on what is and isn't possible with a membership application form on the website. I think they are not understanding the relationship between the membership management system and the website! I can't imagine the nightmare trying to combine filling in and emailing a form, and providing PayPal for 20 different membership options. The problem that you have answered is me trying to evaluate what can and can't be done with the Forms module. Basically the member system does the work already but is a bitch to customise and isn't ideal. Anyway, I'll see if I can crack creating a form on the website before I help them make a decision.

Just a thought on uploads, if you can't control this I guess it might be an idea to include something that tells people why and offers an email address for sending screenshots.

Cheers.
Peter.

Hi Dave. Thanks for the additional info. Membership resides in a separate application called Amember, located in a folder alongside the website. It does all of the registration / membership application / PayPal and offline payments / tracking of finances / emailing notifications to filtered email lists/ creating address labels for sending out monthly journals etc. I think I'd lose the will to live if I tried to add all those functions to Exponent!! It's a bitch to customise Amember so I'm exploring if I can engineer some form of overlap between the systems, but I am not hopeful. I'll work my way through your replies and see what drops out as viable or not. Peter.

Hi Dave. This is where it grinds to a halt:

''When back at the original page you'll note a warning 'This form is blank. Select "Design Form" to add input fields.' since the assigned form is empty, without any controls.

Click on the 'Design Form' button to bring up the Form Designer''

There is no warning note on the original page. On clicking Design Form I am now at the screen shown in the screenshot "bts design form screen".

Peter.

I'll have to resume this tomorrow PM. I'll let you know how it goes.