Thanks for answering my post. I have not been able to test the solution you
suggested because I am not sure how to fire the submit handler without the user
actually doing so. Do you know of a way I can trigger that event from code?
Thanks for helping me out with this, it has been consuming my development time.

Shade

--- In ydn-flash@yahoogroups.com, kayoh@... wrote:
>
>
> Hi Shade,
>
> You can collect unvalidated data by loop through
FormDataManagerEvent.collectedData.
>
> For instance, in sample movie of SimpleFormToBegin.as , try to add those line
below in handlerDataCollectionFail function.
>
>
> private function handlerDataCollectionFail(e : FormDataManagerEvent) : void {
> // Let's collect error messages is in the failedData.
> var resultTxt : String = "### Errors in your form ### \n\n";
> for (var i:String in FormDataManager.failedData) {
> resultTxt += i + " : " + FormDataManager.failedData[i] + "
\n";
> }
>
> /* ADD three lines below */
>
> for (var ii:String in e.collectedData) {
> resultTxt += ii + " >>> " + e.collectedData[ii] + " \n";
> }
>
> // And show it in a textArea.
> if(!collectedDataOutput) this.addChild(addCollectedDataOutput());
> collectedDataOutput.text = resultTxt;
> }
>
>
>
> "FormDataManagerEvent" has public var "collectedData" which is stored
un-required fields' data during the validation process.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Kay.
>
> --- In ydn-flash@yahoogroups.com, "shadetyler" <shadetyler@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I am trying to build a contact form where users can enter information
> > and it will then collect and send that information to me. In the
> > situation where someone decides they don't want to complete the form and
> > decide to cancel, I would like to have that information collected and
> > sent to me as well. I am trying to loop through the data in the static
> > class FormDataManager and it will not return any values from the
> > collectedData attribute unless the validation and form submittion have
> > been executed. I know I could keep my own references to the form objects
> > and call them directly, but the contact form is generated dynamically
> > making this approach not ideal.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> >
> > Shade
> >
>