Can anyone tell me if form tools allows you to...

[michatmaster7]

Hi Nick -

Welcome to FormTools!

If you choose to use FormTools to add forms manually, it can do almost everything you've mentioned, with the following exceptions (to the best of my knowledge):

-Paper form to electronic conversion (should be easy)
-Simplification of forms (getting more difficult)
-The ability to expand or contract bulky forms based on the information that is entered into the form (is this possible?)

Converting a paper product into an electronic version is going to require manually creating the form one way or another. To my understanding, there is no magic scanner that just creates a digital form from a piece of paper. Sorry

What do you mean "simplification of forms"?

The ability to expand or contract forms based on the information entered: Do you mean the form's submission results or the form before it is submitted? Either way, it can be accomplished, but that would require some custom web coding, something I don't think FormTools does.

All of that said, you may want to look through the documentation pages listed regarding Ben's new Form Builder module. I am not familiar with it yet, but it may be able to do a little more without requiring too much knowledge of website programming.

Would you be using FormTools in a website environment (wanting to display forms and results in a website), or just use the admin area to display results, etc?

Perhaps if you give us a little better idea of what the forms will be doing and the types of information it will be collecting, someone here can be a little more specific than I am, since I'm not the expert here.

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PS - Here is the main link to the Form Builder Module I mentioned. It's a new feature and a premium tool (paid and licensed per domain): http://modules.formtools.org/form_builder/

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I just saw your post over in the Say Hello area:

I work in the construction industry and we have several large forms that we constantly have to fill out for different projects. We would like a way to electronically manage the form data, allow us to auto enter it on various forms, allow us to hide certain parts of the form based on necessity, etc

I am hoping form tools will allow me to upload/create forms, manage the data input on these forms electronically, show a simplified version of the form, but still show the data either in it's simplified form, or in it's original form. Does that make sense?

I think FormTools can be a powerful resource for you, but it sounds like it would be best suited on a WebSite where the people filling out the forms can click a link to visit a form, then fill it out, etc. Do you have a website already? Someone who manages or codes it for you? (An HTML or PHP programmer?)