Thursday, July 16, 2009

Draft Registration Form

Dear Sarah, Brian, and All,

I have created a draft LACUNY Institute 2009 Registration Form using the Google forms function in Google Docs.Please take a look and test it to see if it's OK with you.

Basically, the form can take the registration, and record the responses into a spreadsheet. But we still need to link it into the PayPal page.

I am not sure if you are familiar with the Google forms. Here is the instruction of how to access the "LACUNY Institute 2009 Registration":

1. Login to our "lacunyinst2009@gamil.com" account
2. Open the spreadsheet of "LACUNY Institute 2009 Registration"
3. Click on the "Form" from the toolbar within the spreadsheet, and the form will be displayed
4. Test the form by filling it out
5. Select "spreadsheet" from "See responses" to see the responses

More to do with the form:

1. This form can be embeded into a web site or a blog, but has to link to PayPal on our registration page
2. We need to customize the "Thanks" message after people submitting the form (the default message is not suitable). I am thinking also add the link to PayPal page from here. I found the instructions on how to change the “Thanks” message after submitting the form from the following web site:

http://www.morningcopy.com.au/news/how-to-style-google-forms/

Sarah: I am not sure if this will work with the page you are creating or you have a better way to do registration. Please let me know. If you are going to use it please make any changes you want.

For my address to sending the check to, please use the one from last LACUNY Institute (on the web site).

Thank you.

Songqian

3 comments:

LACUNY Institute 2009 said...

Hi Songian,

Thanks for working on this! I tested out the form--the only thing that needs to be changed is the food option question--you have to answer that question (the only choice there now is Vegetarian) in order to complete the form and have replies show up in Google doc. So looks like we'll need to have two answer options "Yes" and "No"

Your suggestion to have link to Paypal on the Google reg form is good. Would makes sense for users to get a reminder to fill do the PayPal after they complete the form?

Brian

LACUNY Institute 2009 said...

I had the same problem with the form.
Agree about a link to Paypal.
Jane

Sarah said...

The two questions that need to be yes/no are the LACUNY membership question and the food choice question, if they are both required. Do we need to add an additional text box for any additional information (can't think of a reason right now, but maybe someone will be dying to tell us something not covered in this form?)
Also, Danielle is the one working on the website, not me!!
Thanks for putting this together.

 
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