form not sending data

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I have an online form setup that will send via email the
results. Several people have told me they have filled in
the text box with a paragraph but that data was not sent
to me.. it is showing blank. Every time I test it and
enter data it sends it to me. Also, one time it sent
half the data. People are getting frustrated with
resending the data. Does anyone know what is going on?
Ryan
 
-----Original Message-----
I have an online form setup that will send via email the
results. Several people have told me they have filled in
the text box with a paragraph but that data was not sent
to me.. it is showing blank. Every time I test it and
enter data it sends it to me. Also, one time it sent
half the data. People are getting frustrated with
resending the data. Does anyone know what is going on?
Ryan

If the form field in question is a TextArea box, the
visitors may be entering carriage returns. Then, if you
view the data in Access, only the data up to the first
carriage return will be visible.

To get rid of the line endings, you may need to filter
carriage returns and line feeds out of your Access query.
For example, you might need to code the field as:

replace(replace([myfield],vbcr," "),vblf," ") AS fixedfield

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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Also if it is a long form (all text boxes are sent at the end) there is a patch to allow longer forms at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;820915
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| >-----Original Message-----
| >I have an online form setup that will send via email the
| >results. Several people have told me they have filled in
| >the text box with a paragraph but that data was not sent
| >to me.. it is showing blank. Every time I test it and
| >enter data it sends it to me. Also, one time it sent
| >half the data. People are getting frustrated with
| >resending the data. Does anyone know what is going on?
| >Ryan
|
| If the form field in question is a TextArea box, the
| visitors may be entering carriage returns. Then, if you
| view the data in Access, only the data up to the first
| carriage return will be visible.
|
| To get rid of the line endings, you may need to filter
| carriage returns and line feeds out of your Access query.
| For example, you might need to code the field as:
|
| replace(replace([myfield],vbcr," "),vblf," ") AS fixedfield
|
| Jim Buyens
| Microsoft FrontPage MVP
| (e-mail address removed)
| http://www.interlacken.com
| Author of:
| *------------------------------------------------------*
| |\----------------------------------------------------/|
| || Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out ||
| || Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out ||
| || Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition ||
| || Troubleshooting Microsoft FrontPage 2002 ||
| || Faster Smarter Beginning Programming ||
| || (All from Microsoft Press) ||
| |/----------------------------------------------------\|
| *------------------------------------------------------*
|
 
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