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Up until now, we've been individually creating HTML based forms for each needed form, but this is becoming tedious and requires a great deal of customization for each form.
What I would like is a solution that can let non-techies design forms, or at worst a way to create a simple form definition in XML or similar using a layout template. I would then like these generated forms to be able to be processed on the back end and have the entered data go into a datbase without having to program each form.
I've looked at a number of solutions, but most of them require a browser plug-in (such as Altova's Authentic, or XForms). Since we have using using a variety of browsers, this isn't viable. On top of that, I doubt seriously that it would meet accessibility requires of section 508 (which we are required to follow). Ideally, I'd like something like InfoPath, with a database backend, but web based (which, unfortunately, InfoPath is not).
For privacy reasons, I don't really want to consider a hosted environment, though if the forms could be secured over SSL it would probably be easier. And, if it's hosted we need to be able to customize look to fit our branding standards.
Does anyone have any recommendations? Thoughts? Ideas? thanks
there is a product from Xigla which is designed specifically to create forms. I don't use it personally - I go the tedious route - but I use other software from them and I'm very satisfied.
[xigla.com...]
