Features

  1. Forms
    • Quickly create rich, dynamic forms by dragging and dropping controls from a palette.
    • Auto-generate sophisticated, fully-functional forms from XML schema.
    • Create sophisticated layouts by grouping your controls in a variety of ways - collapsible sections, tabbed views, multi-column layouts.
    • Drag and drop controls to re-arrange them in your form.
    • Use a wide variety of pre-packaged controls to collect information - Date, Money, Phone, etc. frevvo automatically collects valid data.
    • Easily handle repeating items - multiple addresses or accounts.
    • Customize the appearance of your forms using themes.
    • Specify rules using your browser that change the behaviour of controls - conditional sections that display when required, or computed values such as invoice totals. Rules are automatically and instantly applied using Ajax.
    • Define patterns that entered data must satisfy.
    • Create multi-page forms to collect large volumes of data.
    • Mix and match schema-generated controls with from-scratch controls.
    • Download your application (including forms) when complete and deploy to a different Live Forms server.
  2. Web 2.0 features
    • Ajax-based, responsive user interface.
    • Nothing to install. Create and use your forms in any modern web browser.
    • Automatic data validation with instant feedback. Users are warned immediately rather than going through a submit-wait-refresh cycle.
    • Publish your forms and controls as templates with other users.
    • Forms cannot be submitted without valid data in all required controls.
    • Drag and drop controls using any modern web browser.
    • Restart partially filled forms. Users can resume working on forms and complete them over several sessions even from a different browser.
    • Collaborate on complex forms. Multiple users can work on forms since state is automatically maintained by the server. For example, a user can partially complete the form and then email it to a colleague who might complete it.
    • Share your forms with anyone including making them public.
  3. Form Data
    • View each data submission online as a report or as an XML document.
    • Download submitted data on demand to Microsoft Excel.
    • Have submissions formatted and emailed to you.
    • Have submissions sent to your web site.
    • XML support – forms consume and generate XML documents.
    • XML schema support (create form from schema or download schema from form).
    • More data export formats coming soon ...
  4. Integration
    • Easily add forms to your own web page/application - Live Forms provides several options for embedding including automatically resizing iframes.
    • Integrate smoothly with a REST API. The forms can automatically use REST URIs to update documents.
    • Database integration. Forms can execute queries to get initial data as well as update the database.
    • Email form data to yourself and customize the appearance of the email message.
    • SOA integration (SOAP web services) – coming soon. Forms can invoke SOAP endpoints to get initial data and upon submission.
  5. Security
    • View and submit your forms over a secure 128-bit encrypted connection.
    • Account access is over a secure 128-bit encrypted connection.
    • Control access to your database using API keys of your choice.
  6. Customization
    • Customize the look and feel of your form with themes (standard CSS).
    • Re-use controls or sets of controls by dragging and dropping to your custom palette.
    • After submitting the form, redirect users to any URL of your choice or display customized message.
  7. We're working hard on a number of new features to make your form building experience even more enjoyable.