Customized Forms are integral to process workflows and in fact often initiate various organizational workflows. A Forms Designer module that allows users to achieve a better fit between their needs and the business purpose needs to be quick to design, scalable for even complex forms creation and link easily to a process. It also needs to effectively deliver a dynamic, time saving and code free option to the serious BPM user.

Skelta Forms Designer from Skelta's 2009 product version delivers all this and includes capabilities that support Rapid Application Development - from creating rich user interfaces to delivering service mashups and composite applications.

Highlights

• 100% web-based forms designer with an AJAX-based WYSIWYG editor to create rich browser-based forms.
• Layout painter for specifying HTML layouts and for forms preview and testing.
• Associated property sheets to configure presentation and appearance of forms.
• Map data between form fields and process attributes in control property sheets.
• Link forms easily to processes and even call forms from within process workflows.
• Validation rules to eliminate data entry errors and useful tool tips to guide users during data entry.
• Manage versioning and security of forms
• Create complex forms for use in processes
• Use forms to either initiate workflows or as part of an activity in the workflow

Effectively using a Forms Designer feature for easy process workflows

The Skelta BPM.NET Forms Designer has a toolset that is complete with drawing, import, and text tools, plus a detailed alignment and layering toolbar to ensure you have the precise control to generate professional quality forms.

The created forms are then mapped to the relevant steps in the process workflow. The data mapping between the form fields and process attributes can easily be associated in the control property sheets. The end users interact with this screen while performing the tasks, and data entered into these forms are passed back to and from the process seamlessly. The Forms Designer also provides tools to apply validation rules or formulas, in the form. Validation rules eliminate data entry errors when users type values into the form. It also provides users with useful tool tips to guide them, when they fill the forms.

• Intelligent form behaviour, lookups and validation
• Reusable form components through the web based designer
• Single-click publishing to the web
• Support for multi-language forms
• Allows for forms that comply with accessibility standards
• Integration with existing web architectures
• Management of all permissions, integration

Business Scenario

Company x has a typical recruitment process, managed by HRMS. The HR Manager, as part of the recruitment process, had to design certain forms. For example, a "Candidate Information" form that has to be given to the candidates who come for Interview. This form can be designed using an external application, but it has to be then integrated into the process. So there was a need for a solution, which could take care of the form design as well as associate it to workflows.

Skelta's BPM.NET includes a Forms Designer which enables the HR Manager to create/design the Candidate Information form. As the Forms Designer also provides an easy to use drag and drop interface for designing, the HR Manager can quickly design the form, make changes, and preview it, before making it available throughout the organization.

Additionally, as the forms are process-driven, they can be reused at different stages, once they are built. The form so designed can now be associated to a workflow. As soon as the candidate fills the form, the associated workflow is triggered and the HR Manager is informed. This Form will help the HR department know the basic details of the candidate. An Online Test is given to the candidate and depending on the candidate's total IT experience and Company X can now schedule an interview for the candidate with the appropriate person.