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Every site need a Contact Us form or Mailing List. If you decided to create own website or blog and you need contact form or registration form, use free service My Task Helper.

With MyTaskHelper you can create contact form with easy. Add fields types such as text (single line, multiple lines), photo, video. You can create and submit form to your website or blog in few minutes. See creation steps:

1. Login to MyTaskHelper;(for test account login: test; password: test)

2. Create new project: "Contact form" 3. Create new form "Contact form" Now you can add fields to your form 4. For adding fields you must enter field name and select field type This is example. You can create you own form with any fields you need. 5. For each filed you can use validation functionality. First field: Name Choose Validate only on Submit, Presence Second filed: Email Choose Validate only on Submit, Presence,Email For other fields you can select such validation: see screenshot 6. To embed this form to your website or blog use Widget Builder module Change form background, text color, form size etc. See all Widget Builder features in this screenshot Copy this code and paste it on your website/blog So you where able to get HTML code for contact us form which is Ajax based. You now can add any more fields you need. Change form background if you want. Upload logo and finally put this contact us form widget right into your web page. Hope you found it useful, please, see also how you can add hotel forms here How to create Hotel registration form.

Hotel managers, travel agencies will find our service wonderful, because they can extend their travel sites in a minutes.

Hotel Reservation Form Here we are going to show you the same of registration form in hotel. You can get HTML code within few minutes and integrate it to your site in another minute. I hope you will find this hotel signup form useful! Today online registration is spread all over the world. With MyTaskHelper web app you can create a form and embed it into you website (blog, company/agency web page). You can use this free service for your online business. Start creating your own online database. Travel company/agency can save money by means MyTaskHelper, because it’s absolutely free. Any information about your clients, business can be stored on MyTaskHelper servers. I decided to show how it works in this example. I will tell you about MyTaskHelper database example “Hotel Registration form”. It is very easy to build this online database. It can be made in 5 minutes. Creation steps:

Login to MyTaskHelper (it’s easy and free)

You can add fields into your form (see screenshots)

To customize forms use Widget Builder module

Copy/Paste this html code to embed forms to web page or blog

To enter your first record please click to link “Add Record” in menu Records

Click on “Create” to view your first record

Enjoy!

Now you now how to create hotel reservation form in few minutes. You can add any fields to form. Edit form design and embed form to your web page. Also you can create clients database and store information about your business. I hope it useful for business people.

With MyTaskHelper you can create online order form in few minutes.

Nobody needs telling that with the development of broadband internet, online shopping is on the rise. Now is your chance to get in on the action by adding an online order form to your site. People will be able to get what they want from your site in a simple and effective way, rather than using previous long winded methods. Embed your order form into web page and start your business. Instuctions:

• Please register in MyTaskHelper - online database builder(it's easy and free);
• Login and create first project (enter project name "My online business" and form name "Online order form")

• Start to make your form;

See form creation steps:

• How to add fields into the form you can read in blog post how-to-create-and-submit-contact-form-to-web-page-or-blog or See video instruction on YouTube.
• For data checking use validation functionality. More about it please read in blog post Validation
• If you need additional field features move mouse on the filed

• To embed your online order form into website you need Widget Builder menu

Main features: Background color, text color, form size etc. About all Widget Builder features read in blog posts: Widget Builder. Also you can find more information here: Redirect to record widget page, Database moderation and web forms security , Captcha, label placement, column resizing, export files and more For example you can see my form: This web form you can use in online shops or in the other online business. With MyTaskHelper you can store unlimited number of records in database table. So you are not limited in number of orders you can get per month. I hope you found this online order form sample useful!

Ajax bulk import files can be done in MTH in a few clicks. All you need is to have file field in your form and upload multiple files in one go.

Import several files

When you are on the Records page you can see 'Import' link. Previously it only included two options: Create New Records and Update existing records when key data matches. And now you should also see ' Upload multiple files in a time'. However you will see it only if you have at least one file or image field in your form. Select radio button with label 'Upload multiple files at once'

Then select several files from your PC to upload

You will see how this files uploading using Ajax, one by one. Please, wait whiel uploading finished and press 'Import'

You will see that all your files uploaded using bulk files import.

We hope you will find it useful, because this is one more cool feature which you will not find in any other database or form builders in the web.

You can block spammers using Ban IP feature as well as require records approve before your users input will be shown on database widget.

Database moderation

We are happy to tell you that your database application can be more secure now. Because in addition to Captcha you can add database moderation or even block spammers IP's forever.

You should use this feature if you using both Form and Database widgets on your site. Because users can submit just anything to your web form. And you should be aware of it.

For enabling database moderation, please, go to Widget Builder and find new Database moderation option.

Enable it and all users input will be moderated then.

When next time you login to see your new records they will be highlighted. And on the right side of each record you should see Approve link. So you can allow or delete this record permanently.

Ban spammers IP to protect your database application

Even if you have enabled both database moderation and Captcha on your form you can't be sure that your data will always be valid. Because spammers always can add bad entries to it. So you may need another way to block them. This is why we added IP ban feature.

Please, notice that at the right side of each record you have More link. Click on it and you can see IP of every user who entered data to your data base. Also below this IP you have Ban this IP link. Click on it and this user will not be able to fill your form any more.

Of course you may want to unban some users. Because some of them can be banned by mistake or maybe they changed their behaviour to better :) In the same More section you should see All banned IP's link. Click on it and you will see the list of all IP's blocked in your application. Near each of IP you can see Unban IP link. Use it if you want to unblock this user again.

Find this feature in widget builder module.
In widget builder module you can find the option Banned Ip's. Click to this link to ban (unban) IP's and see all ban list.

To ban needed Ip enter it into this field.



All banned Ip's list.

Protecting web forms using Captcha is another great way to validate users input. Make sure you choose right security options for your database application!

In MTH you can easily split your big form to few smaller forms and join their logic using Redirect URL option. Read how you can win from web form pagination in this blog post.

Assuming we have a big and complex form with up to 20 fields. Here we created one. And we definitely want to simplify this form.

Aim of our form is to collect your family info. It asks several questions about you, about your mother, father, grandfather, children and girlfriend. We want to split this form to several smaller form. And it's obvious that they will ask all this information separately.

First form will ask about your information. Second about your mother and so on, until you will not complete all forms.

For achieving it we need to create all this forms. Here is what we got. Click here and fill the form!

Trick: Redirect URL for joining forms

Simply create three forms, customize them. And update settings one by one. First step is to customize first form and to copy direct link of the next form. See screenshot below and notice Direct Link at the top right side.

Copy this link and use it for setting redirect URL.

Copy URL of next form into Redirect URL of the first form like in the screenshot below.

Splitting complex forms can be done not for everyones form. So, please, be careful before you will move to paginated forms, do not delete your previous big one. Hope you found it useful!

Import excel to web database

We are very happy to introduce Import from Excel functionality in My Task Helper. Previously you were only able to create your database from scratch. But now you can move from your Excel databases to online database in a few clicks.

Please, follow few simple steps:

Signup

Create database

Create form

Copy Excel data

Assuming you have Excel file. Copy it's content and paste to MTH.

IMPORTENT NOTE: if you have any carriage returns in your data cells it will break all import. Please, make sure to do not enter any tabulations or carriage returns in your Excel file. You will be able to do it in MTH then.

Import Excel

Press Import and you are on the go!

Records imported

Please, notice that your columns now represents form fields. All your data located on Records page.

Database widget

And you can easily integrate your data table to your own page with a few clicks.

Add more data to existent database

It is obvious that you should be able to update your data using Import at any time. You may want to add new records or update entries.

Add new records using Import

On Records page you should see Import link, using which you can add or update your data using Excel Import. Procedure is the same as when you migrating from scratch. Just copy your excel file content and paste to import text area. Remember that you should include also first row with column names. The order of fields doesn't matter, but presense of this fields on your form is important. Because if you don't have such fields they will be created. And if you renamed fields in Form Builder but not in Excel you will have twice more fields. Which is not what you want. But using this trick you can update your database structure along with adding or updating records.

Update records using Import

Also you can update existing records when key data matches. Choose column name (Unique field) to use as a key for comparing data. If your new record contains the same value in this column as one of your existing records, the existing record will be updated with the new data. If no match is found, a new record will be created.

Remember that you always can export your updated data back to Excel :)

Create free online database in 5 minutes. Today I’d like to introduce example of My Task Helper database. In this post I will tell you about MyTaskHelper field types. For example I decided to show "Used Cars" database. It is possible to make the online database in 5 minutes. If you are the cars sales manager this post will be useful for you.

So let’s start. Steps of creation:

1) Goto My Task Helper and Login

2) Create you first project - "Used Cars Database". Enter project name in a field "New project" 3) Will appear the window, please enter the form name - "Used Cars". 4) Now you have the form and you can start to place into the form fields: in this example I tried to use maximum field types(String/Integer/Float or Single Line Text, Text or Multiple Lines, File/Image or File/Image/Video Upload, Boolean or Yes/No, Date/DateTime, Select or Drop Down, Checkboxes, Country). For each field please fix validation. More about this service you can read here. - First field “Brand” choose type Select or Drop Down. Please, find “Set default value” link. Click it and fill with your sell brands. - Second field “Type”, select type Select or Drop Down. Click “Set default value” link and fill with your sell car types. - Next field “Model” – type String. In this field your can enter model of the car (only text symbols). - Color, type Check box. In this field your can select one of few colors. - Fields “Description” and “Experts Comment”. Type Text or Multiple Lines - Field “Price $” – type integer. Your can use only numeric data. - Next field “Credit sale” – type boolean. It’s Logical type. User can select one of two logical values (Yes/No). - Also your can state the date of the sale car, field “Sale Date” – type Date. - If you need to upload more information about car you can use fields Image, File. - To state the country where the car has been got from please use field type Country. - Next Field “Experts opinion”. To select one of few points I use field type radio button. So now your form has done. You can enter data. Go to menu Records and start data adding. If you have done everything correctly will appear your first record. For form submit use Widget Builder module. ===========================================================

• You can find/sort clients in your database using search/sort functions.
• Now you can place this form into your site using Widget Builder.
• My Task Helper supports
• TEAMWORK. You can edit “Used Cars database” with team.

Database search

Read how database search works in My Task Helper. Remember that the same will affect your integrated database widget. Enjoy searchable databases for Free!

Shortly - you can add more and more parameters, further narrowing your search down. This is useful if you have hundreds, even thousands of records.

Searchable students database

We will show how search works using students database. Here is how student form looks like.

After filling it with a few students we are ready to search through students database.

Initial search form asks you to specify your search.

You have a columns and conditions filters here.

Message at the right side tells you to enter search keyword, because you can't search using blank string. Notice this useful text with the yellow background. it always show you current search options in well readable format.

Once you started entering some search keyword smart search helper tried to read your search.

You can choose any column to search by. For example, let's choose Name. Our search helper asks you to enter search keyword. Sure...

And we will find all records which contains a. Very easy, isn't it?

Let's expan all search filters. You can see that search conditions for Age is different then for string. Let's list all available conditions for different field types here. String, Text, File, Image : is, is not, is empty, is not empty, starts with, ends with, like, contains, not contains. Date, Date and Time, Birthday : is, is not, is empty, is not empty, before, after, between. Number (both Integer and Decimal) : is, is not, is empty, is not empty, less than, greater than, less or equal to, greater or equal to, between For Drop Down, Radio Button, Check box, States, Language, Country, Time Zone controls you will be able to select choices which was added as a default values in the Form Builder. Also we will improve search filters for File and Image fields to include file size and extensions. It will be done along with another tasks for improving files functionality in MTH like: uplaoding multiple files or images, size and file type validations, file link in email notifications.

Remember that it will be the same for any HTML Form.

Back to our students database search. We will specify more search parameters. Will add age range, from 20 to 30 years old people only. Please, notice Add new search criteria link. Which is smart enough and will not allow you to add few search filters with the same column. Fools protection in action.

Join conditions and and or is another unique feature which allows you to build amazing search queries. You can combine them as you wish, there is no any restrictions or limitations. We believe that possibilities which we gave you in our search is good enough for any searchable database.

Finally we can get such a cool search. Our smart search helper reads it as Find records with name contains a or age between 20 and 30 and sex is Male or car is Ford

Was it helpful for you?

MyTaskHelper's users can add Captcha to their forms, change label placement, export files and even more.

As you should already know MyTaskHelper is a great way to upload and store files, music and video Everybody happy with a fact that they can save a lot of data on our servers. But people always wants more. You also need to be able to Export all files. Archived of course. This is why we added Export all files functionality. If you have file or image columns in your database you will see Export all files link on Records page. Clicking on which you will export all your database files archived. It will contain directories with a column name and all files uploaded to this field inside this directory.

Also, please, note that you can change column size now. It may be very helpful when you have a lot of fields, or want to improve your Database Widget

Captcha is a great way to protect your database from spammers. This is why we added such functionality for MyTaskHelper's users. You can enable captcha in Form Widget settings and it will appear on your integrated form immediately. Another great feature is label placement. By default all forms has Top Aligned field labels placement. But we are trying to give our users as much as possible options to customize their forms. So you can change default label placement to Left or Right aligned. Improve your beautiful forms now!

MyTaskHelper grows each day, we have users from all over the world. This is why next new features were very improtant for us. You can change the message text about successfully submitted form now, by default it says 'Successfully created'. The same you can do with Submit button label, just change the name of the button and make it more obvious for your country users!

And finally we applied all new features to our contact form

Please, feel free to contact us at any time with any questions or suggestions. Your comments very important for us!

In this post I will show you how to create bug tracker in a minutes.

Just sign up with My Task Helper, create Bug-tracker form, add your tracker fields, such as defect title, body, date found, attached screenshots. And that's all! Now you can go to records page and start adding your defects. Go to widget builder, customize your defect form and integrate to one of your site pages - you will add your defects from there. And you can integrate the whole defects database on another page of your site. Enjoy!

The best way to create your own online forms is to use My Task Helper.

With MyTaskHelper you can create online database with easy in few minutes.

Exactly what you need If you have web page or blog and you need a database form. This is a free web database tool. Our online app allows your to create as much form as you need. You can create own online database without any complicated web tools and programming skills. When you created your online project you can submit it to your website or blog. It is easy and absolutely free.

To create and embed form to your web page you need to do few steps:

1. Login to MyTaskHelper (register for free, for login you can use your email);
2. Start new project (enter the project name);
3. Create your form (enter the web form name);
4. Now your can start to add fields you need to form;
5. Go to Widget Builder module (in this module your can customize web forms) copy html code and paste it into your web site;
6. Enjoy!

So now your know, how with MyTaskHelper create and embed form to website or blog. With this online service you can create contact/registration forms, mailing list etc with easy MyTaskhelper will be very useful for online business.

Main features:

• teamwork (edit your database with other people using only web browser);
• unlimited file storage (read more on MyTaskHelper main page);
• customize form(use Widget Builder module. Having created a web-form, you can change its design: the sizes, background, text color, to place the trademark on the form);
• sort and search function are available;
• export to Excel;
• MyTaskHelper is absolutely free;

Store your information with MyTaskHelper online service.You can enter into the form fields data types such text, photo, video. Upload files of any size and any type. Create music/photo/video collections. You can view your movies online. All data will be stored on MyTaskHelper servers.

MyTaskHelper will be useful in the home and in the office. You can use this free web application for file hosting.

Today online databases is the powerful addition for every website. Easy way to create and embed forms to website is MyTaskHelper, because this service absolutely free, easy in use and you should not learn any programming languages.

See how to create Mailing List in this post.

I'll note all the necessary steps and attach screen shots, so everyone can reproduce and use.

1. Login or Signup to MyTaskHelper.com
2. Create Database, called 'Mailing List' in MyTaskHelper.com
3. Create Form/Entity/Model, called 'Mailing List'

4. Create form field/property/column, called 'Email' Create Property/Form field/Column for your Mailing List in MyTaskHelper Next you will see this: Mailing List Entities in MyTaskHelper.com

5. Actually that's all..;) But let's improve it quickly.

We created Form field Email, but user can input any string. So let's add validation. Click on 'Validation' link under Email property and check 'Email'. Set validation for properties/form fields in MyTaskHelper.com Noticed a lot of options? Yeah, you can create fairly good validations easelly.

6. This is a time to create first email. Navigate to Objects Page.

Try to enter email, you will see that validation works ;) Create record in MyTaskHelper You will be redirected to Records page. Where you can Search/Sort your Emails. Records Page in MyTaskHelper That's all for now. In next post I'll show you how to:

• reorder fields
• sort objects
• search objects
• make and embed widgets

Enjoy!