Jotform Adapter

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The Jotform adapter is a simple component designed to help you retrieve content entered in your forms. We tried using it ourselves to collect data entered in various forms on our website.

But to be very honest we found it very limiting - if you cannot handle a Miniature Website and doing a form from first principles then sure. But otherwise avoid this product like the plague. You will quickly run into limitations with the product that you cannot solve.

For instance consider the problem of A form which remembers who you are - securely.

Sign up for Jotform and create a form to collect data

Refer to Setup a Jotform Account for the sign up process and gathering the Jotform Form ID and API Key.

Import the Jotform Adapter component

Import the Jotform Adapter component - see Create a Componentif you need a reminder on how to do this from the dashboard.

Configure your Form ID and API Key in the Jotform Adapter Custom Fields

Update the custom fields Form ID with the form you want to collect data from and your registered API Key.

See Custom Fields if you aren't familiar with why and how they are used.

Click Edit to open the Translator and set getSubmission to live=true to collect your form submissions

To run getSubmission to collect your form submission data, set the live flag to true.

If you are in the EU you will need to modify the code to use the EU website

If you are in the EU you will need to modify JOTFORMcustom.lua to use https://eu-api.jotform.com – simply uncomment line 6 in JOTFORMcustom function:

Using the String Viewing Window, look at your response content being queued

Each submission response content is captured and queued.

This is a feeder channel, connect a downstream component to receive the content queued

You can connect any downstream component depending on what you want to do with this information. For example, you can connect this to the Slack Notifier Adapter to send alerts to your team of new submissions.