Sharing the Addiction

I am at last posting about this awesome little online application creator. You may have heard of Zoho as it has quite a well known set on online office applications which give Google a good run for its money. Well, I was trying to think how to set up electronic registrations for our 2008 cluster expo and I came across Zoho Creator. Basically, you can set up an embeddable form which takes the submitted information and puts it into a database that you can export to Excel at the end. The forms are a breeze to make and the program is completely free! All you really need to do is drag the type of form box (eg a single line box) from the left hand menu into the form you have created.

I wouldn’t have needed to understand anything about scripting except that I wanted the form to perform the slightly complicated task of letting a person know when the workshop option they have selected is oversubscribed so they have to choose again. Zoho Creator lets you do this but I have to admit that I couldn’t figure out how to write the scripts I needed. I put a message up on the Zoho forums and the support was absolutely amazing! Bascially, the lovely man at Zoho ended up writing all the script for me (with a few messages sent back and forwards). I just had to paste it into the right place in my application. I also made up another form that involved no scripting knowledge which allows presenters to submit their workshops.

If you want to see the finished forms, I have embedded them into the wiki I plan to use for the cluster Expo next year. Go check it out. This is a highly recommended tool and I can see myself using this over and over again.

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