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CommonName User Guide - Form Filler |
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1.0 Introduction
2.0 Entering Form Details
3.0 Filling Details
4.0 Editing Form Details
5.0 Advanced Users
The CommonName Form Fill feature helps you fill in online forms with your home and work details with a few simple clicks.
You no longer have to re-type details like name, home and work address, phone numbers, email address, etc.
For security purposes, all form details are stored securely in encrypted files located on your local hard drive.
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Before you can use CommonName Toolbar to fill in forms,
your need to enter your details so that the Toolbar
will know how to fill out forms with the details for you.
To enter your details to the Form Filler, Click the Tools button on the Toolbar and select Form fill - edit details.
The Form Manager should now appear.
2.1 Entering Home Details
Enter your home details in the boxes displayed.
Once all of your details have been filled in, click OK or go to the Work section.
2.2 Entering Home Details
To enter your work details, click on the Work tab at the top of the Form Manager window.
When all details have been entered click 'OK'
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Once your details have been stored in the Form Manager, you can fill in forms by following these simple directions:
3.1 Filling Home Details
- When you visit a page with a form you wish to fill out, click 'Tools' on the CommonName Toolbar
- Select 'Form fill - home details'
- CommonName will fill in the information you have recorded provided fields in the form match those listed in the form manager.
To learn more about how you can match fields, see the Editing - Form Field Names section.
3.2 Filling Work Details
- When you visit a page with a form you wish to fill out, click 'Tools' on the CommonName Toolbar
- Select 'Form fill - work details'
- CommonName will fill in the information you have recorded provided fields in the form match those listed in the form manager.
To learn more about how you can match fields, see the Editing - Form Field Names section.
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You can update your details at any time using the Form Manager.
To run the Form Manager, select "Tools" on the Toolbar and then "Form fill - edit details".
4.1 Adding Field Names
If a field is not defined in the standard field, the associated field on a form will be left
empty when using the CommonName form fill feature.
For example, currently the standard fields include 'First Name' and 'Last Name' but not 'Full Name'.
However, the CommonName Toolbar allows you to add extra fields so that
details on your favorite sites can be filled automatically.
4.2 Editing Field Names
In some cases, the CommonName Form Manager may not fill home or work details on a form after you select
the 'Form Fill - home details' or 'Form Fill - work details' option from the CommonName Toolbar menu.
This will occur if the form you are filling in on a web page uses different field names
than the standard field names set up in the CommonName Form Manager.
CommonName solves this problem by helping you edit the home and work fields to
ensure details are filled on your favourite sites are filled automatically.
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CommonName allows you to use regular expression when defining field names.
To illustrate this, consider the 'First Name' field. The field name is set as f.*name.
- The period (.) after the f means that it will look for f followed by any character.
- The asterisk (*) after the period means that any number of characters will be accepted before name appears.
- The whole tag is therefore looking for an F followed by any character or multiples thereof before the word name.
- So the tag would accept firstname, forename, first-name, first name, forname or even f1234name.
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