VISIFORM ELECTRONIC FORM DESIGN AND FORM FILLING SOFTWARE
Visiform Electronic Form Design, Form Filling And Form Management Software
Visiform Electronic Form Design, Form Filling And Form Management Software
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VisiForm Standard Electronic Form Design, Form Sharing & Form Filling Software
Primary Software's Vision - VisiForm Standard Form Creation Software
By Maggie Biggs, FCW.com
Pros Of VisiForm Standard Form Creation Software: They have strong support for multipage e-forms with varied layouts and orientations, and spell check, zoom and thumbnail navigation features. Its e-forms client interface is easy to use, has good support for security and compliance and provides a routing add-in.
Cons Of VisiForm Standard Form Creation Software: Support is limited to Microsoft Windows. Designer is not as intuitive as other e-forms design tools, and e-forms are saved in a proprietary format. It also may require significant scripting and integration work to achieve the expected return on investment.
If your business has a significant infrastructure inclusive of document management, portals and other Web-serving technology, Primary Software's VisiForm solution may be a good fit. The core solution provides a form designer and an end-user tool called Filler.
The VisiForm Designer provides a useful interface for creating forms. However, we found it a bit counterintuitive. During our tests, we had to use the toolbar, function keys or the View menu to switch between design mode, preview view and the code window. Because of that, our forms development took longer than it did with the other products we tested. A tabbed development paradigm would have helped.
The Properties window was accessible only via the toolbar, function keys or the view menu. We wished we could have docked the properties window within the Designer interface. This, too, would have sped development.
That aside, VisiForm Standard Form Creation Software excels at multipage forms. Its layout and formatting tools are well designed. We were able to create several multipage forms with different layouts and orientations.
Although VisiForm Standard Form Creation Software comes with built-in controls, we could not create custom controls and add them to the list. The abilities to spell check and zoom in and out were useful, as was the thumbnail navigation.
The Designer documentation gave us the information we needed to complete our forms. We downloaded and tried the tutorial on advanced calculation techniques. It would be a good method of keeping developers abreast as the product progresses.
Like its rival Adobe, the VisiForm Standard Form Creation Software solution enables developers to use either Visual Basic Script or Java Script to build calculations within forms or develop entire forms applications. After accessing the code editor window, we had no trouble adding Java Script to several of our test forms.
VisiForm Designer forms are saved in a proprietary format. This is not a problem at agencies that use Microsoft Windows, but for agencies that interact with the public, it may present an issue because many customers may be using other operating systems, such as Apple Computer's Mac OS X or Linux.
Primary Software tries to account for this limitation to a certain extent by providing something called POP!Forms. These are compiled VisiForms that can be filled out on Windows machines that are not running any VisiForm Standard Form Creation Software products. Adding support for calling up forms in Web browsers or other nonplatform-specific ways would expand VisiForm's usefulness.
After creating a variety of forms, we used the VisiForm Filler client application to gauge how easy it was to complete the input on our test forms. Primary Software has done a good job with Filler, and although it is proprietary and limited to Windows, we were able to quickly complete our test forms.
As with the other products, you can secure VisiForm forms, including restricted templates and forms limited to certain users. If you need bar code support, however, you'll need to wait for an upcoming release of VisiForm.
Primary Software does not try to provide your infrastructure layer. Instead, it supplies a routing add-in that supports HTTP GET and POST network commands, e-mail routing, and additional scripting functions. This type of support assumes that your agency has a mature infrastructure for document and form handling and for portal and Web services.
VisiForm Standard Form Creation Software is a viable solution if your agency has a mature infrastructure, does not extensively use forms and has limited requirements for interfacing with customers or contractors.
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VISIFORM STANDARD ELECTRONIC FORM DESIGN & FILLING
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VISIFORM STANDARD ELECTRONIC FORM DESIGN & FILLING
SOFTWARE FOR AS LITTLE AS
$199.00
