I agree with you that forms are widely used on intranets, and an extension to easily develop and maintain those forms would indeed require such a component. Now to find someone, or a team of developers that can code such a solution :)
-- Robin
Board member, eZ Publish Community Project Board - Member of the share.ez.no team - Key values: Openness and Innovation.
Yes full-scale communication between site administrator and users is inevitable for any kind of successful web project. The more large-scale the project is, the more powerful tool is needed to provide all means of interaction between site visitors and administration. Form are a good to ensure easy valuable communication for all types of web projects.A great adventage ia possibility of using form builder software to make it easy
I agree that this is a vital part missing in the powerful eZ Toolkit.
This is needed not only when building intranets but on mostly all more advanced sites.
In the past we have built our own basic builder that mimics the behavious of the actual class builder interface but allows you to add additional information such as tooltip texts, grouping of fields, display info such as if to use columns etc. We then used this information together with the powercontent extension to achieve kind of a form-builder.
Have you guys done something similar? Maybe a good idea to consolidate our efforts?
All those who have posted in this thread would know this, but just in case others are searching for form-building help, the eZ Survey extension provides more advanced form building help than the default "feedback form" class. I also know of at least one developer who has used eZ Publish in conjunction with the API of a third-party form-building service.
We do use the eZ Survey extension quite a lot and its great at building online surveys. I guess just as intended. But when needing a bit more, such as being able to collect binary files, or being able to turn the posted data into objects its not as well suited.
We recently had to do a simple competition. You submit 3 images and a description and you can win a free trip. The results are shown in a vote section. Most vote wins. To build this with the form-builder is, to my best knowledge not possible?
Any ideas on how to best implement this with EZ Publish?
