Has anyone successfully integrated the SalesForce web-to-lead feature with their DNN site yet? Any tips or lessons learned to offer?

Searched in the forums, but it seems like no one has had experiences to share in this regard.

Thanks for the feedback. Here's my experience trying three different form modules last weekend:

Xmod 5 - From what I can see, xmod doesn't have the HTTP post functionality that SalesForce web-to-lead needs to collect form data. In addition, it doesn't have out-of-the-box question-based events to show or hide content based on answer type.

Enterprise Forms 3.7 - probably the most robust and customizable of the lot, but the HTTP post feature doesn't like long strings of data. During a test, it would pass a few fields without any problems, but the complete form wouldn't get collected by SF. I also couldn't get the hidden retURL field to work with this module. This module drove me nuts because there is no test submission available -- one must go through a multi-tiered approval process before a form template can go live.

DynamicForms 2.5 - very frustrating and slow to work with due to page refresh times and data not appearing during post back (in an admin/form setup screens). Test form passes data to SF just fine, but have yet to try with a complete one. I like that DynamicForms allow multiple form completion events -- create one to HTTP Post to SF, and create another event to redirect after posting.

I don't know if this helps, but Code5Systems authors a great and intuitive forms creation module.

A feature of note is that you can easily specify a "Silent Post" setting which will do some very nice things.The Silent Post feature is useful for sending information to outside Partners, Vendors, or another process in the same Website.

To quote their site:

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 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 more info, see here http://www.code5systems.com/Support/Forum/tabid/55/forumid/31/postid/1003/view/topic/Default.aspx.

HTH,
Eric