Q: Hi guys,
I’ve just tried the preliminary demo of Formoid. Immediately, because I’ve ran into several people lately, asking me how to develop their forms themselves. I’ve been working with Acrobat, LivecycleDesigner, and FormsCentral.
Formoid has the best comparison with Formscentral jquery dialog form, but I hope you can do better than that.
My suggestions would be:
•When a file has been chosen to upload, give a confirmation of the chosen file. By text or by thumbnail. Or both.
•Where is the data stored? Would this work on a database on your server, or even better: can I configure it to work on my own server? There you would beat FormsCentral.
•Give me some more design tools: not one font size, but more. Give me color libraries, templates, more fonts, gradients, even pictures to place in the background.
•I would love fields to validate input (date between given period of time, amount larger than x, etc)
•I hope for a scale (set to 3 to 7 steps from bad to excellent for example)
•I hope there’s going to be form logic, where certain fields are left out because of certain given answers in other fields.
•split the form into several parts including a progress bar
•What does a button do? I don’t see any interface to define actions
Keep up the good work. It looks promising!
A: Our developer team will add this functionality and other features in the future versions.
There are 3 methods to use Formoid:
1) Use "Preview and test" button. You form will be saved and processed on our server.
Backend on formoid.com will make validation of submitted information and send it at email
address that you specified in application. Your form will be saved into our database and
you'll able to see it using "My forms" button in application window.
You can add the form to your page in the following ways:
* Copy the link from the browser's address field and add it to button/menu item on your
webpage.
* Copy the link from the browser's address field and use it with iframe.
* Copy the link from the browser's address field and use it with tag.
2) Use your own server and our server-side PHP code (backend). You form will be saved and
processed on your server in this case. Our backend make validation of submitted
information and send it at email address that you specified in application.
To add the form to your page you should:
a) Upload files generated with Formoid app. on your php server.
b) Use link to .php file (generated with Formoid) as link to your form.
Notice that if you want to use this method, your server should support PHP.
3) If you server doesn't support PHP, you can use Formoid app. to design the form
appearance only. You should write server-side script by yourself.
Use generated .html file in this case.