IBM Forms: Streamline your business, reduce cost and paper
- 1. ® IBM Software Group Overview and Demonstration © IBM Corporation
- 2. IBM Software Group Harley Davidson
- 3. IBM Software Group Agenda Overview Demonstration D i Create a Form Forms within a portal Futures Summary
- 4. IBM Software Group Manual Forms create challenges on many levels levels… “Print and Fill”
- 5. IBM Software Group Lotus Forms Websphere FileNet Process Lotus Forms Turbo P8 Server Zero footprint, turnkey forms Quick and easy! Lotus Forms Content Manager Services Platform App Server / Portal DB2 Lotus Forms Webform Server Browser based zero footprint access from inside or outside the corporate firewall Lotus Forms Services Platform A framework for integrating forms with business applications Lotus Forms API APIs to manipulate Forms Lotus Forms Viewer A rich client for mobile or Lotus Forms Designer disconnected users An Eclipse based, drag- Eclipse-based drag and-drop forms editor.
- 6. IBM Software Group Presentation Layer What’s inside the Form? High-fidelity for duplicating paper forms Guided-interview, or wizard, driven Business Logic Capture forms processes in the form Integrate business process workflows Data Instances Based on W3C XForms specification Multiple XML payloads for integration Validate against external XML Schemas g File Attachments Capture complete t C t l t transaction ti Supplemental or associated eForms MS Office, videos, faxes, etc. Security
- 7. IBM Software Group Demonstration 1: Create a simple form Scenario 1: Overview Scenario 2: Creating a form Scenario 3 L S i 3: Logo and Shi T address d Ship To dd Scenario 4: Input control and data binding Scenario 5: Bill To section visibility Scenario 6: Table Creation Scenario 7: Table Calculation Scenario 8: Grand Total Scenario 9: Finished Form
- 8. IBM Software Group Scenario 1: Overview
- 9. IBM Software Group Scenario 2: Creating a Form What you are going to see A form being created A li of available templates list f il bl l Example of pre built functionality pre-built
- 10. IBM Software Group Scenario 2: Creating a Form What were the highlights Provide prebuilt and customised templates Fast start for form creation Maintain consistent look and feel
- 11. IBM Software Group Scenario 3: Logo and Ship To address What you are going to see Adding a logo Changing the f Ch i h font size i XML schema ShipTo user interface controls p
- 12. IBM Software Group Scenario 3: Logo and Ship To address What were the highlights Easy to modify the forms appearance Split l between UI d i and d S li roles b design d data creation Quickly create form components using drag and d d d drop Automatically link user interface and underlying data
- 13. IBM Software Group Scenario 4: Input control and data binding What you are going to see User Interface Palette Drag and d D d drop d data Hide elements based on user selection
- 14. IBM Software Group Scenario 4: Input control and data binding What were the highlights Multiple ways of creating the form UI Easily bind data and UI E il bi d d d
- 15. IBM Software Group Scenario 5: Bill To section visibility What you are going to see Drag and drop UI component Use U a wizard to create a b i i d business rule l Define when a UI component is visible
- 16. IBM Software Group Scenario 5: Bill To section visibility What were the highlights Business rules can be used to hide or show UI components Can create a single form which can be g used by multiple end user types
- 17. IBM Software Group Scenario 6: Creating a Table What you are going to see Create a table using a wizard Customise the l k and f l of the table C i h look d feel f h bl Create a dynamic UI component
- 18. IBM Software Group Scenario 6: Creating a Table What were the highlights Wizards provide quick start tooling Dynamic elements available within li D i l il bl i hi live forms
- 19. IBM Software Group Scenario 7: Table Calculation What you are going to see Use a wizard to build a multiplication rule View the XPATH output of the rule p
- 20. IBM Software Group Scenario 7: Table Calculation What were the highlights Wizards reduce the complexity of learning XPATH Wizards provide a q p quick start tool Table calculations can be built quickly and easily d il
- 21. IBM Software Group Scenario 8: Grand Total What you are going to see Creating the tables grand total field Aligning Ali i UI elements l Binding results to the underlying data
- 22. IBM Software Group Scenario 8: Grand Total What were the highlights Common form elements can be created easily. easily Table calculations for dynamic content y can be created quickly No N manual programming required t l i i d to bind results to data.
- 23. IBM Software Group Scenario 9: Finished form What you are going to see The finished form
- 24. IBM Software Group Summary Easy and simple to use interface Forms can be created quickly F b d i kl Wizards hide complexity of XForms technology Development and design roles can be segmented
- 25. IBM Software Group Demo 2: Banking Portal
- 26. IBM Software Group Summary Make life easier for form users Create f C forms quickly and easily i kl d il Reduce the cost of form based transactions
- 27. IBM Software Group Buzzword Bingo
- 28. IBM Software Group Thank you Th kk Think Thi Chris Sparshott Blog Bl http://chrissparshott.com Portfolio http://www.slideshare.net/sparkbouy/slideshows IBM chris_sparshott@nz.ibm.com