FormWiz is a utility for creating the code necessary to post an online form using the existing GCWeb server script at http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/index/mailform.cfm
... One can follow directions such as those provided at http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/webdev/digest/faq7.htm
to get such a form to work, but the extent of coding required can be prohibitive to most faculty and staff who post web pages on campus. Even for someone used to this material, there is ample opportunity for error in completing the tags involved. The FormWiz utility gets around most of the coding problem. Anyone at GCC can open http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/formwiz
to construct a working form for their web site. The initial page provides instructions on what information and preparation are required in advance, such as organizing field names, planning the URL for the final page, and posting a separate "thank you" page that will serve as a confirmation that the form has been processed. FormWiz provides the bare basics of the form layout, allowing the user to specify the field type (text, drop-down list, etc.), simple labels for the fields, and special options such as storing the form data on a shared database on the server. This last option allows the form publisher to share the data with a team of people who do not have to receive e-mail versions of each form posting, as well as work with the resulting data in different formats such as spreadsheet-compatible tables. The last step in using FormWiz to create a form is to lift the necessary code from the final display FormWiz provides by either (a) copying the HTML source to insert into one's own web site, or (b) copying the page itself for less code-intensive editing via one's own graphical web page editor. It is presumed that in most cases, the FormWiz user will want to later improve superficial aspects of the form such as styles, colors, fonts, etc. or at the very least add information above and below the form in order to identify the page and link it to the rest of their web site.