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[closed] MachForm enhancement suggestions


  1. MrBrillo
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    Hi there. I'm a MachForm newbie and have trialled the product over the past few days and have some product improvement suggestions:

    1. Ability to place fields side-by-side as well as beneath each other. I'd like to do this using a drag/drop feature, and not by direct editing of the CSS.

    2. Field display is all or nothing. I'd like the ability to complete a field that is conditional upon the value(s) of a previous field (regardless where in the form the field previously appeared). For example, field 1 contains three checkboxes. Field two should only be displayed if checkbox 1 or checkbox 3 is ticked. Further, this conditional display should flow throughout the form and not necessarily just be restricted to the field immediately following the checkbox example.

    Conditional field display should not just depend on checkbox fields; Text strings (based on specific text value, or even if text is entered) within Single Line and Paragraph Text could be candidates as well as specific values or boundaries within Price, Number and Date fields, or values selected from a Drop Down.

    3. Date - ability to display the date in European dd/mm/yyyy format

    4. Field fonts - ability to apply unique font and font sizes to field label text. I could spend valuable time wading through the CSS, but this would apply the same font to the same field throughout the entire form (presumably?). It also means I have to learn CSS!

    5. Similarly, I'd like the ability to add a jpeg image to include within the field label text.

    6. Ability for a user to recall the their form to amend or add more information. This feature alone would be a worthwhile consideration for a MachForm "Pro" version. This would mean that users can complete forms progressively over a period of time, rather than in a single web session. To do this would mean that the form values would need to be retrieved from the database so some security would need to be in place to ensure no-one other than the authorised user or administrator can retrieve/amend/update.

    I realise that this feature probably extends far beyond the original intention of MachForm, but I want a form utility that allows me to develop interactive web forms that my staff can use to complete their performance appraisal details over the course of a year.

    7. Ability to print the form, in its entirety and include all text boxes fully expanded so that all the text entered is printed. The standard print function within browsers would not suffice - it needs to be a specific feature within MachForm that would achieve this.

    I'm happy to explain any of these features to you in more detail if you wish, so invite you to consider them in more detail and respond in due course.

    Posted 14 years ago #

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