Appway's e-Forms Manager is a powerful tool to create and manage corporate forms. It automates, routes and tracks forms across the enterprise. It quickly transforms constantly evolving paper forms into fully interactive e-forms.
Features
The forms are directly integrated in the Appway BPM Platform or in the other applications that drive your business. This reduces costly errors, streamlines operations and increases overall corporate responsiveness.
Appway Handles Forms (PDF Forms) as multilingual Clusters to optimize sharing of data and resources such as Header Logos throughout the complete set of Forms
Each Form can be seen as an individual function or as part of a Form Cluster (Document Set)
Pages of any Form can be accessed individually and they can be removed or duplicated according to Business Rules
All changes to PDF Documents are audited and under version control
International Language Support (Unicode).
International Page Format Support, Page Dimension and Mixed page dimension are supported
Logical Document Sets allow to arrange and structure Forms and simplify the generation of complex Forms Sets according to Business Rules
Dependency analysis secures the functionallity of the Forms and bindings between any resource such as Data or Images are visible at all time.
Consistency checks according to dependencies within the system offer great solidity of the functionality during Implementation and Maintenance
Test data can be applied to any individual Form
Graphics such as Charts or Images can be applied to Forms
Integration via the Appway SDK allows aggregation of Forms with Data and Images provided by any third party system or service
Custom Graphic Display Fields can be Implemented via the SDK
Each separate Output Field's form and function can be configured according to Business Rules
Drag-and-drop support for various Predefined Output Fields (Barcode, 2D Barcodes, Text, Images, Table of Content)
Generation and Display of Resulting Forms completely integrated in Appway's Workflow/Screenflow engine
Defintion of Visible Forms according to Appway's Business Rules engine.
Define all or part of your Forms to expand dynamically on several pages according to any state of the current Data or Workflow
Change the appearance of a Form according to Business Rules
Design Reports based on third party Data including Graphics and Images
Generate Automatic Documentation Reports by introspecting your own Appway solution.
Designing your e-Forms
Simply upload your existing PDF documents via the browser-based Appway Studio.
WYSIWYG Form Designer offers a rapid method to define the output of User Data onto any Form, by dragging and positioning data with the mouse directly onto your form.
Additional support is provided by publishing functions such as Keyboard Shortcuts, Smart Align/Distribute Functions, Zoom In/Out and Collaboration functions (Locking/Audit).
Using e-Forms in your Process
After integration, PDF Forms can be organized in logical Document Sets and activated by Business Rules at any moment during your process design.
To display a dynamically generated PDF onto your screen, dedicated built-in screen components are available. No programming is required, just drag the component to where you want to display the Form on your screen.
