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From concept to reality, BizForms feature-rich development environment gets your business forms created and published in a flash.


The following key features are already in BizForms.  Keep any eye on this page as we are adding new features at a fast and furious pace. Whether it's Forms, Workflow, Web Applications, Surveys or Business Process Management; BizForms has what it takes to turbo-charge your business.

 

GENERAL
WYSIWYG

Pixel perfect layout, no HTML, web technical or programming knowledge required.

Browser & Platform Independent

Runs on almost any browser under Mac, PC, Linux, Windows.

Embedable Forms & Reports

Forms and reports are easily embedded in any web page just by copying and pasting a simple piece of HTML provided by BizForms for each individual form.


FORM DESIGN
'Common' Objects

Text, Small Text, Large Heading, Medium Heading, Small Heading, Picture, Button, Page Button, Object Groups.

Text Input, Multi line Text Input, Numeric Input, Date Input, Time Input, Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, Drop-Down Lists.

'Advanced' Objects

Bullet Points, Vertical & Horizontal Separators, Sound, Movie Clips, URL Link Text, Progress Bar, Timer.

Masked Text Entry, Numeric Stepper, Password Input, File Attachment, In Form Image Display, Sliding Scale Input, Table Based Data Entry, Item Ranking.

Snap-to-Grid

Size settable, grid can be switched on and off.

Snap Text to Neighbor

Automatically aligns a text field to the center of the edge of an input field.

State Markers

Shows the User in the layout whether a field is visible, hidden, read-only and mandatory.

Alignment

Align left, right, top, bottom, middle and centre.

Distribute space between objects

Vertical and horizontal space distribution.

Copy & Paste    
Undo, Redo

Standard editing capabilities.

Layers

Objects can be placed in front or behind each other with any number of layers supported.

Multi-Page

Forms can have any number of pages.

Multi-media support

Forms can contain images, sound and movie clips.

Themes

Forms are theme driven.  Changing a theme item will change all objects that use that item.

Property Bar

Forms, Pages and Objects are all controlled by a very comprehensive array of properties.


FORM INTELLIGENCE
No Coding, Scripting, Programming

BizForms intelligence is built into the visual development environment.

Flowchart intelligence

All intelligence and dynamic behaviour is achieved by building a flowchart.

Typical Uses

Calculations, validations, conditional skipping of fields and pages, conditional showing and hiding of objects, web service integration with other products and systems and much more.

General Commands

True/False Branch, Complex Branch, Call Behaviour, Comment, Start, Exit.

Form Commands

Submit Data, Close Form, Show Message, Go To Page, Show URL, Cancel Submission.

Object Commands

Set Field Values (calculations), Set Property, Show Object, Set State (visible, hidden, enabled, and read-only), Check Obligatory, Set Selection Items in List, Set Player (media), and Set Table Rows.

Workflow Commands

Notify (includes reminders and escalation), Set Stage, Cancel Notifications.

Integration Commands

Connect & Search information in forms, Pass Parameters to Forms and Reports with QueryString, Form Connect with Actions and the Connection Agent facility for integration with other databases, web services and applications.


WORKFLOW
No Coding, Scripting, Programming

As with Behaviours, workflow is managed purely visually using a great drag-and-drop interface.

Stage Management

By building the workflow diagram, you automatically create the workflow Stages.

Role Management

Define the Roles of people accessing the Form.

Stage Changes

Set condition by clicking on the diagram join lines and then using our flexible formula and condition editor.

Notifications

Send out any number of notifications from a single stage change.

Reminders

From the Notification setup, you can define any number of reminders.

Escalation

Control the process flow by escalating to different people or positions if actions have not been performed within the required timeframe.


REPORTING
WYSIWYG

Form building, intelligence, workflow and even reporting use the exact same drag-and-drop interface to lay out single or multi-page reports.

Multiple Data Sources

One report can show data from one or more forms. Pie, Bar and Line Charts - just drag any number of these reporting objects on to the report.

Gauges

Display aggregated numeric data in a Gauge for more impact and dashboard style reports.

Data Lists

Display selected fields from form responses in a data list. Optionally drill down into an individual form.

Aggregated Data Grids

Perform aggregated data analysis across your forms.

Crosstabs

Simple 2-dimensional tables showing the distribution between any two fields in your form.

Drill-down

This very powerful feature allows certain report objects to be selected. All other objects will then (optionally) update to reflect the selection made.


USER PORTAL
Form Completion

Shows the logged on User a list of Forms they have permission to fill in.

Access Reports

Lists all reports the User has permission to view.

View Form Instances

Shows the User a list, by form, of all instances in which they are involved.

Dashboard

Shows the User a graphical dashboard informing about which forms need attention.  Colour coded bar gives more visual clues.  The User can drill down into forms to remove them from the list and dashboard.

Search

Locate a Form Instance by searching for its name or data contained within it.


ADMINISTRATION
User Management

Add Users, Groups and Positions.

LDAP / Single Sign on

Use Single sign-up with your existing system.


INTEGRATION
Databases

Perform Lookups and Writebacks with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and Sybase.

LDAP / Directory Services

Single sign-on, Lookups, Updates. Import and synchronisation.

Web Services

Forms can communicate with other SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) or Web Services based systems. Business object coding approach using Behaviours.

API

Allows 3rd party systems to communicate with BizForms via elegant, WSDL driven API. Forms can be instantiated, updated, deleted. Workflow can be triggered. Data can be queried as with a standard SQL database.