Using Form widgets in Adobe Muse

Open Adobe Muse. Double-click and open the page in Design view, where you want to add the contact form. 

Open the Widgets Library panel (Window > Widgets Library). Click Forms, and then select one of the two types of forms:

• Detailed Contact
• Simple Contact

Drag the contact widget to the page.

After dragging a form onto a page, use the Selection tool to click once to select the form and then position it at the desired location.

Since the Forms widget is responsive, you can preview and check the behavior of this widget in various screen sizes. If you want to change the position of the widget, or modify the pinning and resize options for the contact form fields, you need to first add a breakpoint at the desired location. Then, double-click and select the field that you want to pin or resize. You can either choose None or Responsive Width as the resize option.

If you want to pin your Forms widget to a particular position in your page, select the Pin option from the Toolbar on top.

While designing responsive web sites, you can choose to pin a specific contact form field to a fixed location. To do so, add a breakpoint. When your web site is viewed in the screen size corresponding to this breakpoint, the contact form field appears pinned to the location you will specify in the next step.

Double-click and select the field that you want to pin and then select the required pinning option.

You can also select the required resize option for your Forms widget and for the individual form fields. Select the element for which you want to set the resize properties, and select the resize option from the Context menu at the top of the page.

You can select either None or Responsive Width as the resize option for contact forms.

Use the Selection tool to select the entire Contact Form widget. While the entire form is selected, the Selection Indicator in the upper-left corner of the Control panel displays: Form: Normal

The Normal link is a menu with four possible states, just like menu items or buttons:

• Normal
• Submit in Progress
• Submit Success
• Submit Error

When you want to adjust the form as it appears in various states, you can select the corresponding state name from this menu.

While this state is selected, you can adjust the appearance of the error message. For example, you could change the text content or change the error text color from red to blue.

Select the Normal state again from the Selection Indicator menu.

While the entire form is still selected on the Normal state, click the blue arrow to access the Options menu. The set of options in the Options menu affect the entire widget:

By default, the Form Name field is populated with the name of the current page. You can change the name, if desired.

If you want the form submissions to forward to multiple email addresses, you can enter the addresses (separated by semicolons) in the Email To field.

The behavior of the form submission is set by the option you select in the After Sending menu. Choose between the following options in the Options menu:

• Stay on Current Page (default)
• Link to File (upload a file that is linked after form submission)

There are two types of new form elements that you can add:

Standard Fields

The list of standard fields include:

• Email
• Company
• Name
• Work Phone Number
• Cell Phone Number
• Work Address
• Home Phone Number
• Website
• Home Address
• Captcha

To add any of these fields, select the checkbox against the required fields.

To add custom fields for your contact forms, click the + button next to the custom field you'd like to add, and then enter the label in the Design view to describe the new form field element that you are adding to the form.

The following are the types of custom fields that you can add to a contact form:

• Single Line Text: Single line fields are for shorter text, such as the visitor's age or zip code.
• Multiline Text: Add the multiline text fields when you want to enable the visitor to type more information, such as submitting a comment or asking a question.
• Checkbox
• Checkbox Group
• Radio Button Group

Click the entire form once to select the Forms widget as a whole. To select individual elements within the Forms widget, double-click and select the element.

To know whether the whole widget or an individual element is selected, view the Selection Indicator. The Selection Indicator displays Form if you select the entire widget, and Text Input if you select a particular field.

When a Text Input form element is selected and you click the blue arrow button to access the Options menu, the options provided offer settings specifically related to that element.

In the Options menu while a Text Input element is selected, you can choose if the field is required. You can also choose whether the field displays descriptive text to help the visitor understand what to enter when filling out a field.

In the Parts section, select or deselect the checkboxes to show or hide the field's label and message text.

While a form element is selected, the Selection Indicator displays the element's name as well as a States menu that you can access in the Control panel (if applicable). The menu in the Selection Indicator makes it easy to select the desired state while you are editing form elements.

While a state is selected, you can use the Fill panel or the Control panel to adjust its appearance.

The possible states that you can configure for form fields are:

• Empty
• Non Empty
• Rollover
• Focus
• Error

The states of a Submit button are displayed with the Submit button is selected.

You can configure the following states for the Submit button:

• Normal
• Rollover
• Mouse Down
• Submit in Progress

Notice that the states of an entire form are displayed when the entire form is selected:

• Normal
• Submit in Progress
• Submit Success
• Submit Error

Use the Selection tool to select the entire form or the form element you want to update.

For example, if you want to change the text that appears in the Submit button, you can directly double-click the Submit button in the contact form. You can change the text in the Submit button by Text selecting the Submit text using the Text tool. Delete the text, and type a new word. You could also select different states of the Submit button using the menu in the Selection Indicator and change the text for different states.

After selecting the form element, you can adjust the appearance of the element.

For example, double-click and select the Name field. To select the text input for the Name field, you can then use the options in the Control panel or the Fill panel to set the background color of the text field.

Using the Fill panel options, you can set the fill color to solid or gradient. You can also set a background image for the fill and set the Fitting and Position options. To adjust the transparency of the fill, you can modify the Opacity setting.

Notice that unless you disable the Edit Together option (which is enabled by default), all the fields update when you edit a single field. This feature helps create a consistent design in your form and saves time. However, you can always select the entire form, click the blue arrow button to open the Options menu, and deselect Edit Together if you prefer to style the fields individually.

Click the Publish button and then click OK.

A browser window opens to display the published site.

Visit the page with the contact form and interact with it on the live site. Test what happens when you submit the form without entering content in the required fields. Check how the form appears and functions, and pay close attention to how it displays error messages.

Once you have determined that the form works and displays as expected, try submitting the form with some placeholder message to send a message. Check your email and make sure you received the message in your inbox.

In the left sidebar, click the Web Forms Usage option in the Reports category. The graph that appears displays the recent form activity related to form submissions.

Using the reports in the Dashboard, you can learn a great deal about the visitors of your website. You can track trends to see when the site receives the most traffic and check the performance of the forms that you add to your site.

This information is helpful when deciding when to add promotions or update your site's content. It also helps you interact with visitors, because you enable them to send messages and feedback to you. You can have a dialog with visitors, rather than only displaying information in a one-way communication from your site.

To learn more about building sites with Muse, visit the Adobe Muse Tutorials page. Also check out the Site of the Day page to see examples of recent web designs created with Muse.

In Adobe Muse, select Window > Widgets Library > Forms. Drag and add a simple or a detailed contact form.

In the Options panel, from the Captcha drop-down list, select reCAPTCHA v2.

It is recommended that you choose reCAPTCHA v2 since Google does not support reCAPTCHA version 1 anymore.

The reCAPTCHA field (Image Verification) is now added to the form.

Configure reCAPTCHA using the following options:

• Public Key: Is used in the JavaScript code that is served to your users. For information on generating keys reCAPTCHA, see Generate public and private keys.
• Private Key: Is used to communicate between your website’s server and the Google server. It is strongly recommended that you store the Private key securely, and do not disclose it. Once lost, the Private key cannot be recovered from Google. For information on generating keys reCAPTCHA, see Generate public and private keys.
• Require Entry: Specify whether reCAPTCHA is mandatory. The option is not editable and selected, by default.
• Theme: Specify whether you want to choose the light or dark theme for the reCAPTCHA box.
• Type: Specify whether you want to enable image verification or audio play for the reCAPTCHA verification. Audio play allows blind users and users with poor eye sight to navigate through your website easily.
• Size: Specify whether you want the reCAPTCHA size to be normal or compact.
  
• Label: Select this check box to Choose to display a label of the reCAPTCHA field. You can use this field to add a title to the reCAPTCHA section of the form.
• Message Text: Select this check box to choose to display a message.

Open the Google Admin Console in a browser. On the Google Admin Console, click Sign Up Now to sign in to your Google account or sign up using the Create An Account option.

After you sign in, you are redirected to the Google reCAPTCHA Home page.

Click the Get reCAPTCHA button on top of the page.

Provide the domain name of your website in the Domains field. Do not provide the full URL of the website, but only the domain name. For example, mysamplemusewebsite.com.

Click Register to generate unique public and private keys for your website.

Notice the public key (Site key) and private key (Secret key) that are generated.

Copy the Site Key and Secret key to Public and Private Key fields within Adobe Muse respectively.

Ensure that you copy the keys fully, and do not miss any of the characters.

Once you obtain a pair of keys for a domain, the same pair is shared across all forms on that Adobe Muse site. Changing one automatically changes all of them, and schedule a re-export of all the pages and their corresponding .php scripts. If you are using a third-party tool to FTP files to the server, ensure that you copy all the .html and .php files (.php files are located inside "scripts/" folder) on the server, not only the one that were updated.

Preview page in browser or within Adobe Muse to test the reCAPTCHA.