FormSpring University is a platform for us to deliver educational tools and resources that you can use to incorporate FormSpring into your organization. Today’s FormSpring U class will take place at 12:00 PM (Eastern) and will run for roughly 40 minutes.
It’s common for small work groups to need to collect data for projects. And most of the time, data needs to be collected and stored in a consistent manner so that it can be analyzed or included in another project or imported into another application. Data integrity is usually very important. For more than a decade, the default tool for this task has been the spreadsheet. And I am a big fan of the spreadsheet, don’t get me wrong. But there is a better way.
We are constantly playing with the FormSpring form builder, so every once in a while we like to have a little fun and think of some creative uses as opposed to the standard surveys, order forms and the like.
There is a big piece of real estate that many people aren’t using when it comes to their online forms – the confirmation email. With FormSpring you can quickly send anyone who submits a form a confirmation email.
Over the last few months, my pet project has been the FormSpring iPhone application. I’m amazed by how popular the app has been, and even more amazed at the ways FormSpring customers are integrating the app into their business workflow. I’d like to take a few moments to look at the three most popular ways the FormSpring app is being used.
As we continue to grow both in terms of size and in terms of name recognition we continue to find ourselves with new and exciting opportunities. We received further proof of that as FormSpring has been named a finalist for the TechPoint MIRA Awards. We were nominated in the Information Technology Gazelle category which spotlights Indiana’s growing and well-positioned young tech companies.
Anyone who has completed an online form that includes CAPTCHA knows that it can be very annoying, and sometimes actually prevents people from filling out a web form. One of the great advantages to using FormSpring is that we have built-in SPAM protection in our forms, however we do give users the ability to add CAPTCHA to their forms in the form builder. We did this because many many of our users requested it for peace of mind and as an added layer of protection on their forms.
If you use Microsoft Word and build a lot of FormSpring forms, you may come across a problem where your entire form won’t load in Internet Explorer, yet it loads fine in Firefox and other browsers. This sometimes happens when you paste formatted text from Word into a Section in the form builder. Anything below this section won’t appear.
Hopefully most of you have had a chance to log in to your account and take a look at the changes to the form builder that we recently launched. Once you do you will notice that all the same features you’ve grown to love are still there, but we’ve moved a few things around a bit to make room for our ever-growing feature list. The old layout was holding us back a bit, as we were running out of room to add new field types and features. Also, the form builder really wasn’t wide enough to easily work with multi-column forms.
If you’re using your a FormSpring form to accept sensitive data, such as credit cards or social security numbers, you must enable all of our security features in order to protect your data. These security features are not enabled by default and are only available on paid plans at the Professional level or higher. The security features available to you are SSL, PGP and data encryption.
