User driven form creator?

Rails
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Hi All,

I need to add functionality to an intranet site where users can design
basic forms such as leave forms, change of details forms, request for
printing forms, etc via a web gui where they enter the label, select a
type, possible values (for tick and select boxes), etc. I’ve had a
look around to see if there are any plugins for this but can’t seem to
find any.

Anyone know if such a thing exists or if there are any good pointers
as to how I might go about it? Doesn’t need to have user driven
validation or rules, just simple data capture stuff that I can then
drive an email from.

Thanks,

Steve

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steve bell wrote:

Hi All,

I need to add functionality to an intranet site where users can design
basic forms such as leave forms, change of details forms, request for
printing forms, etc via a web gui where they enter the label, select a
type, possible values (for tick and select boxes), etc. I’ve had a
look around to see if there are any plugins for this but can’t seem to
find any.

Are these user-designed forms supposed to work as Web forms, or are they
just supposed to be printed out?

Anyone know if such a thing exists or if there are any good pointers
as to how I might go about it? Doesn’t need to have user driven
validation or rules, just simple data capture stuff that I can then
drive an email from.

Thanks,

Steve
Best,
–
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

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Hi Marnen,

They would be web forms. Plan is that the intranet administrator (who
is non-techie) can define the form by specifying the fields and then
the users get the form presented to them to fill in as a web form.
When they have completed the form the details would be emailed for
processing.

Steve

On Oct 28, 7:37 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

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steve bell wrote:

Hi Marnen,

They would be web forms. Plan is that the intranet administrator (who
is non-techie) can define the form by specifying the fields and then
the users get the form presented to them to fill in as a web form.
When they have completed the form the details would be emailed for
processing.

E-mailed? Srsly? At that point, one might almost punt to Google
Spreadsheets’ form generator.

Or maybe a CMS…

Steve

On Oct 28, 7:37�pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

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steve bell wrote:

Yup, email as the delivery as it fits with their current workflow.
However I’d still keep the data in the system in a table for audit
purposes. The rest of the intranet is a custom RoR app that I wrote,
so at this stage I’d like to keep the functionality there rather than
linking off, but I’ll have a look at google spreadsheets.

I do understand wanting to keep this in Rails. Does the editing
interface have to be graphical, or can it be HTML-ish?

Steve

On Oct 29, 3:29�am, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

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Yup, email as the delivery as it fits with their current workflow.
However I’d still keep the data in the system in a table for audit
purposes. The rest of the intranet is a custom RoR app that I wrote,
so at this stage I’d like to keep the functionality there rather than
linking off, but I’ll have a look at google spreadsheets.

Steve

On Oct 29, 3:29 am, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

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It could be htmlish, as long as it would be something that a business
type user could learn.

On Oct 29, 12:37 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-