Based on your posts thus far I am thinking that your requirements are beyond
the ability and design of Publisher.
Once you have a need for the server to process something you are leaving
"web design" and moving into "web programming". Publisher has no support for
the latter.
I don't want to get off topic into a discussion on web programming so I'll
try to keep this simple... the purpose of a submit button is to "post" data
(typically fields of a form) to the server from the client (the browser).
Once the data has been handed over to the server, the server needs to know
what to do with it (aka web programming).
Your limitation quote is incorrect. There is one submit button Per form. A
form has one submit button (to post the form data) and should have one
cancel button (to clear the form). Typically there is only one form Per web
page. Now sometimes there is a reason to have more then one form on a web
page, for example you can see on my site -
http://www.barvin.com - on the
home page there are two forms- a search box form at the top right and a
weather box form on the lower left. Using a Publisher form I recommend one
form only on a web page.
From a design standpoint if you need 3 pages to get info I'm of the opinion
you are asking for to much information. And if you are asking for too much
you'll likely not get any.
From a technical standpoint and to answer your question, no. The submit
button only has the data that is in the form that is on the page. You either
do one form on one page or you do three forms on 3 pages. Now with web
programming and a database, then you could, but actually each next button
would be posting the data to the server before forwarding the client to the
next page.
David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
http://www.publishermvps.com
http://www.davidbartosik.com
Wendy said:
I am creating a sign up form for a product. As it is a 3 part form I wanted
to create the form in 3 pages with next at the bottom of page 1 and page 2
and submit on page 3. I understand that I can only use the submit button
once in Publisher. If I create the 3 pages with the submit button being
on
the last page will the submit button support entering all 3 pages of
documentation?
