Activating an entry

Hi - How do you activate the form submission? I fill in the submission form, hit "send", and get the message that it has been properly received but it doesn't appear when I call up the list. I have to go into the database and manually activate the entry (change table "state" from "0" to "1").
I want to use this for my members to submit data but as far as I can see the admin is not notified anywhere that a new data submission has been made.
Anyone any ideas please?
Thanks,
Ross

Set the Dafault Value of your STATE field to 1 or insert a hidden input with the name of your state field into the formular template.
<input type="hidden" value="1" />
Normaly you dont want to autoactivate your users submissions. Unless you trust your users. But who do?

Thanks Dirk, didn't think of making the db colum default "1" - worked a treat, and yes I trust my members, it's a closed site.