These are examples:

https://purlplugin.com/jacob-jansen-bhjz7/
[Prepopulated form, administrative example]

Membership page (live site) Dutch
https://www.cjbrijnland.nl/willem-deboer-4tsr0/

or
https://purlplugin.com/jim-rock-s0cq5
[Marketing landingpage example]

This is a site which is used in a scatch and wincampaign:

It’s a testpage, because this campaign is active.

What is programmed:

• A code is checked and when a price is won, an e-mail with a pdf-coupon is sent to the lucky winner. A page that he or she won a price is displayed.
• When a code (winning or not winning) is used that already is checked the form can not be send.
• All winners receive their own purl that they can use to check other codes. They do’nt need to fill in Name, Lastname, Company, emailadress. Sometimes people want to check 30 codes!

This is a winning page:

An example Purl from someone who checked one code:

https://www.krabactie.nl/banaan-osesb

The complete code for a scratch and win-website can be purchased. Contact me.

This is essential, use this order:
(Otherwise you can get an error with saving in the database)
For the plugin. we must follow these steps:

• Install Formidable & after that “the Purl plugin”
• Fill the licensefield with the code you received by email and “activate”.
• Import the demoform
• Lookup the id for “Purlform”.
• Enter imported form id (Purlform) and encrypted field id on the settings page. Save your settings.
• Add first entry

You can read the steps below:
To get the addon working you need to install Formidable Forms, and Formidable Forms Pro. After that you can install ” The Purl” as a regular Plugin.

Visit “Purlsettings” in Formidable Forms, fill in your Licensecode you received by mail and activate the plugin.

The next thing is to add the standard form. Open Formidable Forms and import the form. The standard Purlform is saved in the plugin. Open the purl.zip and find demoform

That’s it. The Plugin and demoform are installed.

You can  use the mail that sends from the form. Use the fields to build your purl. For example when you use a companyname to build a purl this is the code you can use:

<a href=”https://www.yourdomain.com/[86]-[key]” target=”_blank”>Your personal page</a>

[86] = companyname

[key]= the pincode

This example shows the use of images, depending on the person. You can use an image you want to show to a visitor, depending on his answer.

https://purlplugin.com/jim-rock-s0cq5

The first step is to create a new form, which contains all possible images.

In the Purlform you use a lookupfield to search for options. (If you want the visitor to choose)

When creating a marketingcampaign with preselected choices you can import the imagefield (use th url from the image) in the imagefield from your entry.

You can use it on 2 domains. For example your main domain and a local installation. You will receive a license for valid for 2 domains for 1 year.

You can choose to select fields that needs to be encrypted in the database. You can leave it, when it’s not needed. These fields will be exported encrypted when exporting a csv-file. So sent the data to an e-mailadres when they are edited. (use formactions in Formidable) You can always lookup the information in the form, but not in the database. So, use this fieldoption (encryption) only for secret data. Like personal info or creditcardinformation.

After installing the Plugin and demoform you need to select the Purlformat. You can always change the format. The format will be set for new entries; added manual or as import.

Go to >>Formidable>>Purl Settings. Select the format you want to use for your project. It’s advised to use only one format per project, per website.

Above formats will show as: yourdomain.ext/firstname.lastname for example. Enter the ID or ID’s from the Purlform(s). You can create another form by coping the first form. Importing the demoform for the second time does not create a new form.

If you want to set another format: deactivate The Purl (plugin) and activate it. You can select a new format after that. Please also reselect your format after updating the plugin. The Plugin after version 1.1.0 also has a option to enter fields to encrypt.

When you use a purlformat with the pincode in the url, the fields firstname & lastname are locked in that format. When using the company.pincode-version, the companyfield is locked. It is an extra way to prevent misuse. When the link is shared or stolen. If you do not want these fields to be locked, please use the version without integrated pincode.

After the firstpage that your visitors see, you can lead them to a followingpage. In this page you can also use personalised fields. This is the way to create a followuppage that not can be viewed when quessing the page-entry.

1. Create a new view in your form. In this case called “lastpage”.
2. Use entries from your Form.
3. Select Both (Dynamic)
4. Choose Detailpage and create content.

In the below section of your form; add for example: Field Company is equal to

And Detail Page Slug: entrykey = ID

You can use , [Firstname] or [Lastname] to check if the entrykey belongs to the visitor. If not; when the entrycode in the url is manually edited it shows an error.

Create a new page: in this case: “nextpage”. Place the view in the page.

Now you can use the complete followuppage with the url:
“https://purlplugin.com/nextpage/?entrykey=[id]”

This url can be placed in the redirect field.

If you just want to show a page without the Form, you can created a page to show personalised data on. You might use it as followup page.

You can use for example:

“https://purlplugin.com/form/?entry=4ob0g&firstname=test”

1. Create a page. In this case: “form”
2. Create a view to show the content.
3. Place the view in the page.

Go to: Your Form>Views> add new. Name it. And select ” use entries from form: your form”. Select viewformat: ” Both”.

In the contentsetting, place your text, images, and personalised fields. You can use the fields from the form (on the right of your page) in the text; for example [88] = firstname.

At the bottom of the view, set entry als detail page slug = key.

Add for example Firstname is equal to if you want to check if the firstname from the url (“&firstname=test”) with the firstname from the entry. This is an extra check.

Save your view.

Goto the page “form” and Insert the created view.

Now your page is personalised.

Place these specific url’s into the redirect fields from the form. With this personal redirectoption you can redirect people to other pages than a standardpage. Let your creativity free!

Use the redirectquestions from the standardform that’s installed at start as demoform. If you do not use these questions, just delete the questions and use the standard redirect.

To view all visits for your form just use the “Reports” function in your form.

Just an idea. When people visit their purl they might ask you to send all the data your company has stored about them. Just add a field with: “Send me all the data you have about me” . After that you can automate with an email that you receive that respons from the system. Or you can send the data that is stored in the form. Both simple automated solutions.

The reason why we have chosen for Formidable to develop “The Purl” on their platform, is that you can automate alsmost anything. Webhooks, Api’s, emailreminders, Automated pagecreation. Please visit the forum on formidableforms.com to find out. Please take a look at Zapier if you want to connect platforms. You can buy an addon for Zapier which you can use in Formidableforms.

The fields Firstname, Lastname and company should not be replaced, changed or dragged to another location in the form. They are needed for creation of the Purls.

You can set these fields to ” invissible” for visitors.

To use all the data of the Purlform export it to csv. Go to: Formidable>Import/Export and choose export. Only csv will work. The pincode and purl are added to the csv. Now you can sent it to your printprovider or import it in your e-mailmarketingtool.

When you import entries with the standard functionality of Formidable Forms, you can connect all fields from the csv to the datafields of your Purlform. The Pincode and Purl are automaticly created. It doesn’t matter if this is for 100 visitors or 20.000. (It will take some time, that’s the difference).

What is essential? Ensure yourself that the first 3 colums of your csv importfile are Firstname, Lastname, Company. If you put them in another column, the purl will be mixed-up and incorrect. It will not load even.

If you want visitors to DELETE their own data you can add this to the form:

[deletelink label=”Delete my data”, page_id=211]

Go to: Form>Settings>Customize HTML.

At the bottom of the form insert the text to “After Fields”

[deletelink label=”Delete my data”, page_id=211] In page_id, use the page-id you want the customer to be redirected after deletion.

Because it’s hard to find who deleted his entry, you can set an emailalert. And the visitor asked to delete all his or her data, so you need to know who it is. So create this alert and delete the person in all of your systems.

Go to: Form>Settings>Form actions>Create emailnotification, and set as trigger ” Delete”.

Now you will be notified after an entry is deleted.

This is the way to create personalised content. 

When you install the plugin there will be created a page: purlform. This should not be renamed!

Go to: Your Form>Views> add new. Name it. And select ” use entries from form: your form”. Select viewformat: ” Both”.

In the contentsetting, place your text, images, and personalised fields. You can use the fields from the form (on the right of your page) in the text; for example [88] = firstname.

At the bottom of the view, set entry als detail page slug = ID.

Save your view.

Goto the page “Purlform” and Insert the created view before

Now your page is personalised.

To show the content from the database, you need to use “views”. Views are a function that only work in the paid version. More about views:
https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/create-a-view/

For every question is a solution. That’s what i found out with Formidable Forms. In this article i descripe how you can use a purl in mailchimp.

 

The following steps are only needed when a person subscribes to your site. For example as a new member of a club or group. You can place the Purlform as a form to subscribe. Synch the data with mailchimp.

The actual Purl is created after submission. So, the unique code is created after submission and can not be sent with the submission.

Create a new form. With an emailadres and uniquecodefield. Synch this after the 2nd submission with the same mailchimplist as the Purlform synches with.

At this to the url of the Purlform:

https://www.domain.nl/thankyoupage/?entrykey=[key]&email=[105*] * use the emailfield.

On this thank youpage the second form is hidden:

Place this as placeholder in the entryfield: [get param=”entrykey”]

Place this as placeholder in the entryfield: [get param=”email”]

After the second submit the data is stored in the form and also this form can be synched with the mailchimplist.

To store the data without submitting by user, but triggered with Java i found this code, but i can’t get it to work: