SOAP and Web Services

[cappsie]

Hi

From what I've read and been able to find, I've noted that you don't have any kind of web service integration.

Are there any plans to build this?

Thanks
Adam

[Ben]

Hi Adam,

Thanks for the post! Awesome question.

Answer (a slippery one): yes and no. Ultimately, probably this year sometime, I'll be working on a REST (not SOAP) implementation of a "Shared Resources" service + module to allow a far more advanced way to shared Form Tools information: data, form configurations, Option Lists, Form Builder templates and styles, documentation and more.

Were you thinking about some sort of a web service for the form processing itself? I thought about doing that a while ago, but figured the people that would need it would be very small. Let me know exactly what you're thinking - I'm very curious to hear what you have in mind.

- Ben

[cappsie]

Hi Ben

Thanks for the reply. I work for a healthcare provider and am building forms to replace paper in an attempt to save the organisation money.

I have a patient administration system (PAS) and a SQL server - I also have access to the PAS's web services.

My plan is to build a form which can interact with the PAS and retrieve patient demographics via its web service, pulling the results into the form and populating its fields. From here I'd save that data to a SQL server. I have to call the web service a few times per each individual form. I may well need to access the SQL server too. Can this all be done in a single form?

I guess once you need to develop the web service.

Thanks
Adam