Submit Button Automated Email subject selection

Hi
I've generated a new form and added a submit button, I've managed to bumble my way through adding the mailto: javascript but it would be very benaficial if I could define the subject feild from on of the form text boxes.
Is this possible?
Thanks in advance
James

This is currently outside the scope of the Formscentral product. If you want this type of functionality I suggest you switch to a Formscentral based submission workflow instead of an email submission based one.
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>
> Everything I seem to read talks about downloading a
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> thing depending on what my hosts' server has.
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I have searched the forum (my apologies if I missed the
correct solution) and have done my fair share of Googling on this
topic to no avail.
Is there a "simple" solution to setting up a submit button to
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carefully.
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>I have searched the forum (my apologies if I missed the
correct solution)
>and
> have done my fair share of Googling on this topic to no
avail.
>
> Is there a "simple" solution to setting up a submit
button to send a form
> to
> email.
>
> I have the action of the form as
mailto:myemailaddress.com
>
> Method set to "Get"
>
> Enctype set to "text/plain"
>
> When I test to submit button it provides a popup window
with a warning
> indicating the senders email address will be divulged. I
click OK and a
> new
> window popsup for my yahoo sign in. I suppose this would
happen as the
> default
> email interface used. However, the form isn't sent.
>
> Any solutions would be very helpful. Thanks
>
> P.S. I use DW 8
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