Developers
Making your job easier
Creating online forms can be a time-consuming task where efficient data capture and information storage is crucial, as is good information design. Not only do your forms need to work well, they also need to look good and remain user friendly.
Mandoforms combine powerful data capture mechanisms with the tools to help you quickly create user-friendly interface designs without compromising network or server performance.
How can you ensure that the questions you ask elicit the correct response from your end user?
Mandoforms provide real-time data entry validation (checking of user entries), and intelligent form navigation (deciding which questions to display next). By running entirely in the user's browser, validation and navigation can all be achieved without any recourse to the network or server.
Mandoforms provide Developers with a range of unrivalled benefits:
- Forms that are quicker, simpler and therefore cheaper to develop and deploy
- A complete development and test environment
- Comprehensive, professional forms that work
- Forms that are easier to maintain
- Forms that work with different devices online or offline
- Forms that can be saved midway through and completed at a later date
- No programming required.
Using standard Mandoforms Server products, form data can be processed in a variety of ways:
- Passing data to your server-side scripts (ASP, JSP, Perl, Python, etc.)
- Sending emails, emails with attachments to the user, or internally or both
- Storing the data in spreadsheets
- Store as PDF, HTML, XML or in any text format and/or return these to the user
- Integrating with existing databases
Mandoforms products
The Mandoforms solution typically comprises:
- Developer Kit
The Developer Kit contains everything you need to develop and test forms. It comprises a Builder Tool that helps you to create forms and a Test Server to serve them and process the data captured.
- Enterprise Server
Typically runs on your Web server. The Enterprise Server is a licensed version of the Test Server. It supports the delivery of applet or HTML based Mandoforms, to browsers running on PCs, Workstations, PDAs, interactive TV etc. It also supports Mandoforms by populating the form with data where required, and passing on or processing the data received. It is packaged with a Developer Kit to provide a complete out-of-the-box solution.
- Server extensions
Server extensions increase the functionality of the Mandoforms Enterprise Server without requiring any programming by the developer.
- Distributed Mandoforms
Distributed Mandoforms extends the reach of Mandoforms to portable or standalone PCs and Kiosks, allowing Mandoforms to be run on disconnected systems.
