Truly agreed! Is there any point can export the contact forms into php or HTML instead host by BC? We design website for our client so not thinking sync with BC so I suggest if Adobe Muse Team could come up something for 3rd party. We are Adobe Muse user so sometime BC is not useful for us, Adobe Muse team done a great job on this BUT please work out something for non-BC user. Think overall.

Some design agency not require BC.

Hi Corey,

I know that the new forms only work if you publish to BC but it says that " In order to use the form with some other back-end server solution, the code output from Muse would have to be altered."  I have created a site for a client and I just export it to HTML and then they put it on their server.  What would have to "altered" for the forms to work?  I use Muse because I am a designer and don't really know code that well (just enough to get in trouble) so how hard is it?

Thank you

Gary

thank you for your reply.

Hi All,

This seems to be one of the biggest complexities one would have to deal with in creating a web site in Adobe Muse.  I am currently working on this myself.  I AM NOT in anyform a web site coder.  I have decided to migrate from iWeb to Adobe Muse for apparent reasons.  I use Godaddy as my host server.  The most complex process in Adobe Muse is a Contact form.  Sure one could use a 3rd party form such as JotForm etc. but then you are faced with trying to retieve your emails etc from another mail server.  This is quit obvious to the lamin that it is not smooth workings.  Godaddy is one of the largest North american web hosting companies, one would think that this would be something the Adobe web team would realize.  I have read all the posts and recognise the server language barrier, but as a "simple" user this basically cripples the final phase in a functional web site.  This post is in no way intended as a finger pointing exercise but as the typical day of an adobe user.  I hope there is a sunny sky in the near future for us common users.

Cheers

Neil

A form builder that only works with Business Catalyst is probably of no use to most of us as we use our own servers.  I am using Jotform but would rather have something built into Muse that works similar to Jotform without having to use Business Catalyst.  Adobe Staff...is this something that might be in the works?

Hi, David:

Out of my own frustration with not being able to use the supplied contact form in MUSE without hosting my site on BC, I've been looking though the forums to find a solution. I came across yours, have checked out the site, and am returning here to inquire your experience with CoffeeCup... did it work out? I'm also interested in the ease at which you're able to import the developed form script from CoffeeCup, directly into your MUSE site. Was it an easy process?

Thanks in advance for any insight you might be able to offer.

Adam

I use iContact which provides me the html from their server side to input onto any web page and any site. It works in DreamWeaver but does  not work in MUSE.

I always export my sites in html format to DW to upload them via FTP to other servers. And when I preview the form code prior to uploading, the form code is the exact same code I get from iContact. But for some reason the forms will just not publish properly.

May I ask how (the steps please) anyone using externally generated html code for forms gets them to publish properly? I did the Insert HTML in MUSE just as I would any other code.

Thank you!

Claudia

Don't lie to people. Forms do not require server side functionality and you know it. This is a tacky upsell sales tactic, nothing more.