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Maybe I’m completely looking at this wrong, but I can’t seem to get Freeform to work within a Channel Entry. I’ve got a template for a contact page, from which there will be multiple entries for various contact forms (general, questions/comments, business, etc). When I throw the Freeform code in the channel entry, the code itself gets displayed in the page within “quotes”. What am I doing wrong?

Take a look, but keep in mind…Work-in-progress!: http://drinkithere.com/contact

Thanks in advance!

Try using an embed to insert the form rather than putting it in-line inside the entries tag.  I don’t think you can use the freeform tag pair inside an entries tag pair without doing it that way.  Then the contact form would render first, separately from the entries tags.

Either that, or just put the contact form outside the entries tag pair.

Another great resource is this article: http://loweblog.com/freelance/article/user-generated-forms-in-ee/ - it guides you through setting up forms in a way that then becomes editable as entries - easier than inserting raw freeform code into an entry.

Whay you could do on the same template is call the channel entry twice - once for your main page content, and second to populate any form fields…eg:

{exp:channel:entries channel="my_channel"}
{title}
Stuff…
{/exp:channel:entries}

{exp:freeform…...}

  {exp:channel:entries channel="my_channel"}
  <input type="hidden" id="subject" name="subject" value="{my_custom_field}" />
  {/exp:channel:entries}

{/exp:freeform}

Thanks guys, your help is much appreciated!