Forms

Various ways to make form fields more transparent and legible. The following article lists several ideas on how to customize the appearance of your form fields. Including:
- Groups and how to arrange fields horizontally (side-by-side)
- Multiple lines of text and append mode
- Rating scale and questionnaire
- CSS

When working with WEBCON BPS applications, there are often situations when a user wants to find a specific instance. For this purpose, they will use the search engine or try to find the necessary information using reports on the application’s site. The WEBCON BPS interface works quickly, but by opening the full page form of each instance individually, only to discover that it isn’t the one they are looking for, is a waste of time. The situation looks similar when you have the form containing hyperlinks to another workflow e.g. previous employee’s vacation requests.

During document processing, it is important to check the correctness of the entered data – mostly to make sure that an incorrect value doesn’t cause issues further down the workflow. WEBCON BPS gives access to multiple avenues of form validation: RegEx, ‘Validate form’ action, and the one we will be taking a closer look at– setting up a form rule on the path. This article describes the use of this functionality. Embedding the correctness rule on the workflow path is a convenient and fast way to verify fields. In addition, it simply limits calling the rule to a specific place of the workflow. Verifying the correctness of the entered data allows you to avoid mistakes and therefore spend less time correcting them.

A new WEBCON BPS 2020.1.3.213 version introduces many changes as well as a new way of operating mobile applications. After downloading the new version of the app to devices and updating the WEBCON BPS environment, the mobile applications will be launched in the new mode. The refreshed interface view helps introduce new users the mobile solution. Just like the browser version of WEBCON BPS, the mobile version is updated immediately and the mobile solution is ready to use parallel to the browser version..

Setting up default values in form fields is one of the most basic and easy things that we can do to facilitate and improve the user experience of working with forms in the WEBCON BPS system. The following article describes the various methods used to configure the default values and examples of use. There are a lot methods for setting the default values of form fields and each of them has its use in different scenarios. However, its is important to remember that the configuration under the hood should also be kept as simple and efficient as possible, so that it is easier to reconfigure in the future and so that it does not negatively impact loading times.

The new version of WEBCON BPS mobile application for iOS offers the option of adding attachments. Until now, the files could be supported by adding photos saved in the gallery or loading a photo directly from the camera. The new version allows you to add the files directly from the applications such as OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox and iCloud Drive by using the “Files” application (available from iOS 11). The article below describes how to connect files directly from the One Drive and Google Drive application.

In WEBCON BPS 2020, it is now possible to display form field in groups horizontally. This option is available only in the MODERN form. To be able to horizontally display the form fields in groups, go to the group configuration and check the “Horizontal arrangement of form fields in group” option. After checking this option, the fields in groups will be displayed horizontally.

In the WEBCON BPS 2020 version, the application reports have been expanded with the ability to display data from an Item list form field. In the report configuration, you can add columns of the selected item list – data from only one item list can be presented at one time. f the item list will display multiple rows on the report, the values of the other normal form fields displayed in the same report will be replicated for each row. The ability to add columns of the item list is exclusive to Table reports.

This articlle presents the maximum number of various types of form fields (limit per process) and the maximum number of various types of item list columns (limit per item list).

WEBCON BPS platform allows you to manage business processes in multinational and multilingual environments. Particular parts of the form were designed in such a way, that you can provide translations to any language that is used by the users while creating the workflow.

From version 2019.1.2 on multilingual choice fields are complimentary to forms created with multilingual usage in mind. This functionality allows you to define choice dictionaries so that the text displayed in them is coherent with a language in which the form is presented to the user.