What's new?
FileNet P8 eForms 4.0.0 has the following new features to help you fill out forms.
Offline eForms
- You can download a form policy (take it offline) if you need to work with a new form outside of Workplace. You can open the form policy in Desktop eForms, fill in the form, and save your data. Later, you can upload the form to Workplace. This feature is useful if you want to work on a form at a time when you can't connect to the server that stores the form policies.
- If it's not already installed on your local machine, you can download Desktop eForms from Workplace.
- A quick start guide is installed with Desktop eForms. The guide tells you how to download Desktop eForms from Workplace, take a form policy offline, open and save the form in Desktop eForms, and put the form back in Workplace.
Limitations:
- A form that you've filled out and saved to Workplace can't be taken offline.
- A form in a workflow step (that is, a form in a Tasks queue) can't be taken offline.
Form Appearance
- Form authors can now add new buttons to the form's toolbar. For example, there could be a button that you could click to open a web page with instructions and information about your organization's policies.
- Form authors can now add new buttons in the body of the form. For example, you could click a button that displays a different page on the form and places the cursor in a specific cell.
- A JavaScript script can be included in a form. This type of script can be used to customize your organization's forms and improve interactions between you and the forms. For example, when you click a cell, the script could look at some of the data you've entered on the form and then make a different cell available for you to enter other data.
- Chioce lists are more versatile.
- If the choice list doesn't include the option you want and if the form allows it, you can type your value in the text field at the top of the choice list box.
- You can type the first few letters of the choice and the rest of the text is entered for you.
- The form author can add descriptive text to a list of choices. This
text doesn't appear in the field once a choice is made. For example, if
you select "TurboMail (0003)," only the text in parenthesis
(in this example,·"0003") appears in the field.
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