Creating Static Views

Using a Gatsby Static Form View you can quickly add a custom submit form to your site.  With this technique, you let Gatsby generate your HTML page, save it to file and then customize it to fit your needs.  Gatsby will handle the task of saving your record to the database.

1. Save Form to File

   Open up Gatsby Database Explorer and navigate to the view for which you'd like to create your form.  Select "New".  From your browser's file menu select "Save As..." to save the file out as HTML.  If you would like to remove the Gatsby buttons from your form add:

   &scope=form

   to the end of the URL before saving the file.

2. Customize the Page

   Using the HTML editor of your choice, edit the page to met your needs.

3. Update Action

   Finallly you'll need to make some modifications to the action value of your page's form tag to tell Gatsby what page should be loaded after a record has been successfully and unsuccessfully saved to the database.  When you save your page the action will look like the following:

   action="Default.asp?action=detail&path=/Intranet/Staff/43&scope=form"

   Update the action using the onsuccess and onerror parameters.

   action="Default.asp?onsuccess=MyOnSuccessPage.htm&onerror=MyOnErrorPage.htm"