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The Silent Post feature is useful for sending information to outside Partners, Vendors, or another process in the same Website.

A classic example of using the Silent Post feature is when using an outside Vendor to manage a Continuity Marketing Program, or CRM management. These programs are offered by many Vendors, the most notable are Constant Contact®, AWeber®, Vertical Response®, and SalesForce®.

In these services it is common for the vendor to supply code which shows a Form where an end user can sign up for a Mailing List, or some other service which the Vendor offers.The Vendors Client is instructed to place the code in their Web Page. This works fine for plain HTML pages which can have multiple Form Tags in the page. For DotNetNuke this becomes a problem, as it is difficult in ASP.NET and DotNetNuke to include a FORM tag in the page.

Using he Silent Post Feature a Vendor Form can be Mimicked with the appropriate end User Visible Fields and the required Vendor Hidden fields. When the Form Master 2008 Form is submitted the Vendor form is Created and Posted in the Background to the URL supplied by the Vendor in their Forms Tag "Action" attribute. The series of events is shown below

End User enters information into the Form Master form and Submits
Data is collected and stored according to the options specified
The Specified Silent Post Fields are used to create an HTTP Request to the Vendor URL
The end user does not know anything about the Silent Post activity, Form Master handles the End User as specified in Settings > Other Settings as usual.

For a an example of setting up a form to work with SalesForce® please see this Salesforce® Case Creation Form