Save and Publish Do It Yourself Online Forms

After you have made your edits to a DIY form, you can save, preview, and publish the changes. If you are replacing an existing form with a new one, you can disable the existing form and immediately publish the new one in its place. This reduces down-time for the DIY form. For information about how to disable online forms, refer to Disable and Enable DIY Forms.

From DIY Forms, locate the page you want to publish and click Edit.

  • To review your changes and see how your page will look once published, click Preview.

  • To revert your edits if you no longer want to keep them, click Revert Edits.To revert to the last published version, click Published Version. To revert to the last saved draft, click Last Saved Draft.

  • To save your changes, click Save. You must save your changes before you can publish your page.

  • To publish, click Go Live.

Note: If you have reached your page limit, you can disable or delete pages you no longer use to increase your available limit. For more information, refer to Disable and Enable DIY Forms.

You can also embed forms into your existing website. This preserves the look and feel of your website on the form page. To access the code you need to insert a form into your existing website, from the DIY forms locate the form you want and click View code to insert this form into your existing website. Copy the code into the html for your webpage to embed the form.

Tip: Templates for DIY forms are responsive. When website visitors view your pages that use responsive templates, the page adjusts to respect the size of the visitor's device. This makes it easier for visitors to use the form from tablets and smart phones. However, existing DIY pages created before the 7.12 release (on September 14, 2014) are not automatically responsive. To make an older DIY page responsive, republish the page. If the DIY form is embedded in another website, republish the page, copy the updated embed code, and use the code to update your website. For best results, your website should also be responsive. Templates with custom skins are not responsive. We recommend you use embeddable templates instead.

Tip: If a website visitor notifies you of a submission error for a DIY form that includes a user-defined date field, confirm whether or not the date separator, for example, "-" or "/", matches the standard date format for your eTapestry database's locale. To successfully validate a submission , these separators must match.