atw: Online form advice
- From: bloss oliver-skuse <ivegotyourpuppy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 09:57:12 +1000
Hi austechies,
I am hoping for a bit of advice about creating forms using fairly basic tools.
I need to create an application form as part of a pilot program. After the
pilot program the organisation will invest in setting up a proper online
process (using a similar setup to their recruitment portal). However, I need a
bit of a cheap and cheerful (or is it quick and dirty?) solution at the moment
because timing has been changed dramatically and suddenly this needs to be
rushed.
The form will be submitted electronically and would ideally:
Allow me to use custom logics to build in different response streams. (I would
like to be able to ask a different set of questions depending on applicants’
response to a couple of key questions. The trick here is that the membership
type will be different depending on some of the responses but this is only an
administrative distinction on our end and they do not get to choose which
membership type they apply for, so we would not want to make the application
pathway too obvious for each membership type)
Allow multiple users to work on the same application form (i.e. admin staff may
need to complete the bulk of the form on behalf of the applicants, and then
individual applicants would need to complete the rest of their forms
themselves)
Be easy to save (both allowing the applicant to save progress while completing
the form and allowing our admin to save each individual response on file)
Be suitable for completion on a range of devices
Be largely idiot-proof (on our end and applicants’ – so forms need to be easy
to retrieve and data easy enough to copy into our database, and they need to be
easy enough for people with relatively low computer literacy to complete and
submit)
Be secure.
I am seeing what I can do with Adobe FormsCentral, Survey Monkey, Acrobat Pro
and MS Word. Does anyone on the list have any suggestions, tips or comments?
Cheers,
Bloss
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