{"id":26049,"date":"2010-01-12T18:13:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T22:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=26049"},"modified":"2024-02-08T18:55:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T23:55:59","slug":"marconi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/non-wordpress\/marconi\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Forms: Marconi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n<p>Marconi is an application used to automate common tasks used with online forms. Some of the most common Marconi tasks include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sending emails<\/li>\n<li>Validating form data<\/li>\n<li>Writing form data to a spreadsheet or database<\/li>\n<li>Processing credit cards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WordPress sites usually use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/create-online-forms\/\">Gravity Forms<\/a> or, for basic payment forms, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/create-online-forms\/payment-forms\/\">Gravity Forms Nelnet Add Plugin<\/a> instead of Marconi, but should use Marconi for special functions (e.g., more complex payment forms or forms pre-populating with Profile Information).<\/p>\n<h3>How It Works<\/h3>\n<p>Marconi uses HTML form code similar to Telegraph andPonyExpress, but with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/non-wordpress\/telegraph\/first\/xml\/\">separate XML configuration file<\/a> to control form actions. Marconi form configurations and email templates are stored in GitHub and managed by the IS&amp;T Web Team. Output files are stored in Marconi. Additional actions can be added to a web form by adding new directives (commands) to this configuration file.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/non-wordpress\/telegraph\/first\/\">Getting Started<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/non-wordpress\/telegraph\/first\/xml\/\">Config (.xml) Files Explained<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/non-wordpress\/telegraph\/first\/login\/\">Forms Using Web Login<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/non-wordpress\/telegraph\/directives\">List of Directives<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/non-wordpress\/telegraph\/how-to\/parameters\/\">Parameters<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Processing Credit Cards\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/non-wordpress\/telegraph\/credit-cards\/\">Processing Credit Cards<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/non-wordpress\/telegraph\/how-to\/\">How-to Guides<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/non-wordpress\/telegraph\/examples\/\">Examples (Complete Marconi Forms)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Marconi is an application used to automate common tasks used with online forms. Some of the most common Marconi tasks include: Sending emails Validating form data Writing form data to a spreadsheet or database Processing credit cards WordPress sites usually use Gravity Forms or, for basic payment forms, Gravity Forms Nelnet Add Plugin instead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"parent":242,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26049"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150350,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26049\/revisions\/150350"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}