I have Muse and I don't see the contact form widget. How do I get it? I really need this feature!

Okay. "Subscriber Beta".... I AM a subscriber to Adobe Cloud. How can I get the Beta version with these new features.

And I forgot to mention something else. Will there ever be a feature available to use contactforms without using Business Catalyst? I don't want to use that, I host with my own hosting companies

I find the answering service extremely helpful as well. We are the ones putting questions here, and no answer to be found!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Totally agree, Martin. Let's hope the people at Adobe hear us and stop trying to force us into Business Catalyst.

Jot Forms works fine, by the way, but it's not really what you want to do!

So, all this forms thing is totally useless if you are going to publish the page in your client's hosting service?

@Juan, Martin,

As far as I can tell, yes. Lovely way to make nice forms, but totally useless unless you use Business Catalyst. When subscribed to Muse you can host 1 website. I am a designer, so I need to host mutiple sites, and not just 1. I sincerely hope there will be another way to do this.

Of course, since it is possible to add HTML to your site, you can build your own form and embed it, but wasn't the whole point of using Muse that you don't have to go through coding stuff?

The temporary solution I use is Jot Forms. Works pretty good, but if you have a site with a lot of traffic, you will have additional cost.

Adobe: hear us! Make it possible to create forms and host them on our own hosting service!

I'm sure this is an "around your elbow to get to your butt-hole" approach. But I'm wondering. If I REALLY like using the easy forms set up for my client within Muse and BC. Then what if, using my own BC hosted site, I create my client form page, set their email address to receive the form info, and post the basic page to my site (i.e. clientABCform.html). Then, on their site (a non-hosted BC site), I set an iframe and pull in the form on the page.

I haven't tried it and I know there are issues to work around – like auto sending to a thank you page, or reset form, or reset to home page. I'm sure someone could figure this out.

There's always a solution whether complex or simple. The question is whether it's worth it.

Yes, that could be a solution to the limit of 5 clients and using the client's hosting service. Not a clean solution because the client's page is depending on BC for its forms to work.

The problem I see for Muse developers is that to be able to send forms, the hosting has to be able to run server side apps, and depending on the characteristics of the service, you could run a CGI script, a PHP file, a whatever-is-called-Microsoft-alternative-to-PHP file, etc. Also, the CGI script has to be in a certain folder of the FTP tree, The PHP files need some permission to execute appropiately, etc.

I think It is all a logistic nightmare for the developers at Adobe and also for the web designer. At the end, the web designer has to know more about technical details than how to upload the site.

I am using forms in my sites and I use a PHP file that somebody made to send the emails with the form data. It is very simple to use, but you have to get your hands dirty with HTML. Also, if you want to customize the appearance you have to make an extensive use of STYLES all along the code (I don't know how to put a CSS block in the header of a file or a call to a CSS file).

Maybe the solution would be that in the config menu of the Muse form widget we could define what method we are using for sending the form (BC, PHP, whatever-is-called-Microsoft-alternative-to-PHP, CGI, a form service...) and the URL/name/whatever of the script related to that method. (for example, in my case I am using a file called sendform.php located in the root of my site). This way we could use all the power of the widget with a minimal of technical info.

With whatever-is-called-Microsoft-alternative-to-PHP I meant ASP, of course. I'm not sure if they are somewhat two different ways of doing the same since I don't really know a word of ASP but I've always seen hosting services with Linux/PHP or Windows Server/ASP so I assumed they were pretty much the same.

I have the exact same doubt about Flash and Silverlight