The Small Green Tree Blog

With Web-form-buddy payment forms you can assign a price to specific fields in your form. Web-form-buddy will calculate the order total from data entered in these fields (text fields) or from the choices made with these fields (check boxes).

Now you can also assign prices to the values of radio buttons. The advantage of this is that you can easily handle choices that are alternatives.

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We are pleased to announce that the maximum size for a file upload with Web-form-buddy has been increased from 10Mb to 25Mb.

Some ISPs have trouble accepting emails larger then 10Mb. For that reason, if you have opted for delivery of your form’s data by email, then if you have a file attachment larger than 10Mb, Web-form-buddy will automatically switch to “archive” mode.  That means that you will receive an email alert with instructions as to how to log on and download the uploaded file.

We have now added the same time-zone feature for Web-store-buddy that we added recently to Web-form-buddy.

The settings are shared - so if you change the time zone offset from UTC (GMT) in one program then that changes it for the other too.

Many products have “attributes“. For example if you sell shoes they might be available in different sizes and different colors.

In coping with attributes, one approach would be to create a separate product code for each possible product option - but you would soon find you are dealing with a huge database of products!

So for that reason you have always been able to add a field for attributes with your Web-store-buddy “buy now” buttons (typically a drop down list). Like so:

However, with only one drop down list to work with, this method gets awkward if you have multiple sets of attributes. For example supposing you had lots of size variations and lots of color variations! You could try adding them to one list like this:

This approach is fine with just a few product options.  But when you have lots of options (and lots of different types of options), it gets out of hand.

So to solve this problem we’ve upgraded the Web-store-buddy attributes feature so that you can now add up to five separate attribute lists to a buy now button. Here is the example above using the new method and two attribute lists.

If you use web forms with file uploads, we’re pleased to announce some new features!

• Web-form-buddy now supports multiple file attachments.
• As before, you can choose whether a file upload is optional or required. But in addition, you can set a number for how many files are required.
• You can set a size limit independently for the maximum size of any one attachment as well as the maximum size for all the upload files taken together. Previously the maximum upload size was 5Mb - that has been increased to 10Mb.
• You can set a limit on the number of file uploads (from 1 to 10).

The Web-form-buddy payment forms option , allows you to hook up your form to PayPal or WorldPay so as to take a payment.

Up until now the description of the purchase displayed at PayPal or Worldpay was just “goods”. Now however you can set up a custom text description of up to 65 characters. And that can be a little more informative and descriptive for your customers!

We have just made an update to the code for web pages that use Refer-a-buddy tell a friend buttons or text links.

The old code will continue to work, but the new code offers two improvements:

• Better automatic positioning of the referral form popup in the user’s browser window
• A better looking script URL that incorporates your web site’s domain name.

Enjoy!

We have just added a new option to Web-form-buddy that allows you to set the time and date reporting to exactly match your own time zone. This new feature is available under “global options”.

Web-form-buddy’s script URLs have changed! (Although the old ones will continue to work just fine, so there’s no need to update your web pages unless you want to).

Up until now, our script URLs always took this form:

http://www.smallgreentree.net/cgi-bin/forms etc etc , or
https://www.smallgreentree.net/cgi-bin/forms etc etc (for secure forms)

What we have done is get rid of our domain in the URL (smallgreentree.net) and replace it with a subdomain (created from your domain) followed by a “generic” script domain. Like this:

http://yourdomain.cgi-data.com/webform/ etc etc , or
https://yourdomain.cgi-data.com/webform/ etc etc etc etc (for secure forms)

We hope you will find this new arrangement much more consistent with your web site (in the past customers might have wondered “who is smallgreentree.net?“!).

Web-form-buddy can send out two types of email on your behalf: The autoresponder email and the payment receipt email.

Web-form-buddy allows you to set the reply address for those emails. But up until now you could only select that reply address from those individuals that you have configured to receive the form data.

Now however you can choose anyone from your contacts database as the reply address. That gives you greater flexibility. So, for example, you could choose to have the form data sent to the admin department of your company. Then you could set your autoresponder reply address to your sales department, and that way your sales people could field inquiries coming in from folks that read your autoresponder message.