pTools – forms and more forms.

I sometimes think that the best piece of technology in our armoury is the pTools Forms application. Don't get me wrong, pTools CMS is a straight down the line enterprise piece of kit, but pTools Forms is so focussed on a single task as opposed to the myriad tasks of CMS that it's hard not to notice. Surprisingly (or not!) it's located in the extra features section of the main CMS which it seems to me is where we hide all the best features. Forms, in a nutshell allows you to build a form quickly and easily and to guarantee the result in terms of email alerts, database records, field integrity and online signatures, all-in-one. It handles simple or single-page forms and complex or multi-page forms, it allows the end user to print and save the results, combining all the relevant contract information in one document. You can add fields and control them right down to language and character specifics. You can append an attachment, a help-file, a map, or any element of content. Most importantly the actions and results are clearly defined in the database and the system dashboard so that you get solid metrics and compliance on the process. Although accessible HTML web pages are more necessary than ever, there's a trend toward document downloads and Forms as sites become more transaction oriented and bandwidth enables downloads with greater ease and reliability. pTools Forms handles just that.