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Sander van den Akker	Tuesday 06 April 2010 7:53:10 am One of the things eZ Publish is seriously lacking is an advanced form builder. With advanced I mean highly flexible forms with element positioning, pagination, advanced validation and data export. For large companies, a good form builder is one of the key criteria when selecting a new cms. Nowadays many websites (especially intranet's) are primarily used to aid in the work that has to be done. I would like to know other people's opinions about this. eZ Publish certified developer http://auth.ez.no/certification/verify/392313
Robin Muilwijk	Sunday 16 May 2010 1:59:07 am Hi Sander, I agree with you that forms are widely used on intranets, and an extension to easily develop and maintain those forms would indeed require such a component. Now to find someone, or a team of developers that can code such a solution :) -- Robin Board member, eZ Publish Community Project Board - Member of the share.ez.no team - Key values: Openness and Innovation. LinkedIn: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/robinmuilwijk // Twitter: http://twitter.com/i_robin // Skype: robin.muilwijk
Fredrik Ardmar	Monday 18 October 2010 6:56:27 pm Hi I agree that this is a vital part missing in the powerful eZ Toolkit. This is needed not only when building intranets but on mostly all more advanced sites. In the past we have built our own basic builder that mimics the behavious of the actual class builder interface but allows you to add additional information such as tooltip texts, grouping of fields, display info such as if to use columns etc. We then used this information together with the powercontent extension to achieve kind of a form-builder. Have you guys done something similar? Maybe a good idea to consolidate our efforts? Fredrik http://www.areadigital.org Custom google maps with eZ Publish http://www.meresverige.dk http://dsbfirst.meresverige.dk
Greg McAvoy-Jensen	Monday 18 October 2010 8:13:29 pm All those who have posted in this thread would know this, but just in case others are searching for form-building help, the eZ Survey extension provides more advanced form building help than the default "feedback form" class. I also know of at least one developer who has used eZ Publish in conjunction with the API of a third-party form-building service. Tot straks. Granite Horizon, Certified Developer of eZ Publish Web Solutions Provider of the SaaS Solution Granite Horizon In The Cloud \| http://granitehorizon.com/cloud http://granitehorizon.com \| +1 916 647 6350 \| California USA \| @granitegreg Blog: http://granitehorizon.com/blog
Fredrik Ardmar	Tuesday 19 October 2010 6:02:19 pm Hi We do use the eZ Survey extension quite a lot and its great at building online surveys. I guess just as intended. But when needing a bit more, such as being able to collect binary files, or being able to turn the posted data into objects its not as well suited. We recently had to do a simple competition. You submit 3 images and a description and you can win a free trip. The results are shown in a vote section. Most vote wins. To build this with the form-builder is, to my best knowledge not possible? Any ideas on how to best implement this with EZ Publish? Fredrik http://www.areadigital.org Custom google maps with eZ Publish http://www.meresverige.dk http://dsbfirst.meresverige.dk

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