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Mandoforms Servers

Enterprise Server

The Mandoforms Enterprise Server supports the delivery of applet or HTML based Mandoforms, to browsers running on PCs, Workstations, PDAs, interactive TV etc, and users with accessibility issues using magnifiers and screen readers. It also supports Mandoforms by populating the form with data where required, and passing on or processing the data received, using what are termed server plugins.

The Enterprise Server is available for both Windows and UNIX systems. For a full list of requirements, purchasing options, and downloads see Latest releases.

Server Plugins

The Enterprise Server includes a comprehensive range of standard server plugins that allow you to perform all of the basic data processing tasks, such as:

• Pass the data to external server-side scripts just like a HTML form
• Data filtering (combining answers, and/or merging with text)
• Emailing messages or emailing formatted form data (embedded or as attachments)
• Creating PDFs (and optionally emailing them as attachments)
• Creating any sort of text file with the form data 'merged' into it
• Creating spreadsheet compatible files (and optionally emailing them as attachments)

Plugins can also return information back to the form to:

• Populate the form (for example, with externally managed data such as a price list or as part of a save/restore scenario)
• Display PDF files, XML files or HTML pages containing the form data for saving or printing
• Display informational messages as pop-ups or in new browser windows
• Automatically launch additional browser windows
• Redirect processed form data to other server scripts such as existing CGI scripts
• Redirect the user's browser elsewhere (for example, to a standard thankyou page or help document)

Plugin chaining allows you to string these plugins together to meet the most complex data processing requirements. Multiple plugin chains may be executed synchronously or asynchronously on each set of data sent by a form, allowing you to perform many actions in one go.

Administration and configuration

A browser-based administration interface allows you to administrate the Enterprise Server remotely. Tasks such as stopping the server, restarting the server and setting logging parameters are completed with just a few clicks.

The configuration interface is equally easy to use. Through a browser you can configure how the data from each form should be filtered, processed, and what responses to return using plugin chains.