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You can customize a web form to require an individual to fill in one or more specific fields before submitting the form. You use the RequiredFields hidden attribute to set a required field in the HTML code.

Note: The value of the field name in the HTML code must be the same as the field on your form. The field name attribute is case sensitive and cannot contain spaces.

• To specify one required field on a web form, add the following line with the value of the RequiredFields hidden attribute set to the exact name of the field you want to require. Add the code after the opening <form> tag and before the closing </form> tag.
  <input name="RequiredFields" type="hidden" value="fieldname" />

• To specify multiple required fields on a web form, add a separate line for each field.
  
  For example, to make the Name and Email fields required on a form, add the following lines to the HTML code:

You can incorporate authentication in your web form to require an individual to sign in through Web Login (Andrew userID and password) to access a form.

Note: The Web Login form authentication function is available only on the cmu.edu server (CMS, AWPS sites), not on the andrew.cmu.edu server (User/CourseWeb).

To use authentication with your web form, do the following:

1. Add the webiso-bin syntax to the form action in the HTML code:

2. Edit the .txt file template to include the %WEBISO_USER variable to pull the user ID from the information entered.

Sample Text File 

Example - Form Authentication

1. Opening <form> tag with authentication

   <form id="my-form" name="my-form" method="post" action="/webiso-bin/mailto">

2. Edit the email message template .txt file to include the variable %WEBISO_USER (must be in all uppercase letters).

To include an individual's information from the Ò»±¾µÀÎÞÂë directory into your web form submission, do the following:

1. Add the webiso-bin syntax to the form action in the HTML code:

2. Edit the .txt file template to include one or more of the following variables to pull the directory details from the information entered.
   

   MailTo CGI Value	Description
   %DIRECTORY_ADDL_AFFILIATION	Additional affiliations beyond primary (faculty, staff, student)
   %DIRECTORY_AFFILIATION	Primary affiliation (faculty, staff, student)
   %DIRECTORY_CLASS	Class level of student
   %DIRECTORY_DEPT	Department in which the person is affiliated
   %DIRECTORY_EMAIL	Email address (preferred/official, could be user@cmu.edu)
   %DIRECTORY_FIRSTNAME	First name
   %DIRECTORY_FULLNAME	Full name (first name, last name)
   %DIRECTORY_JOBTITLE	Job title according to HR
   %DIRECTORY_LASTNAME	Last name
   %DIRECTORY_PHONE	Phone number
   %DIRECTORY_POSTAL	Postal address on campus
   %DIRECTORY_SCHOOL	Faculty & Students: School affiliation Staff: Title of most senior person in the individual's division
   %WEBISO_USER	Full Andrew email address (eg., andrew-id@andrew.cmu.edu)

Sample Text File