In some of the client projects you might run into a requirement where they wish to start a new request but instead of making the user fill in all the data from scratch, they wish to copy over the data from one of the previous request they had submitted. This is often the case when…
Category: eForms
Restrict workflow activity and form lookup usage to certain users in AgilePoint NX
Sometimes during the client discovery calls, there is a question that they wish to restrict usage of certain workflow activities and workflow lookup to certain designers only based on their permissions. This scenario is already covered in the permission management system of AgilePoint NX. An app designer can see all the shapes but in order…
Read data from excel sheet and populate on eForms
Sometimes the requirement is to have an AgilePoint eForm in which an Excel file can be uploaded. Once uploaded we need to grab the data in the Excel file and populate it to the different fields in the form. There are N number of ways of doing this based on Effort VS Reusability Vs Customer’s willingness…
Barcode control in AgilePoint NX eform
In this article, I would demonstrate how to use a 3rd party barcode generation service and render the returned result back in the form. Though I have used an open source service for the sample app, same concept would work for any of the paid subscription service for barcode generation. Start by creating a form…
Store file on network drive through eForms or Process
If system admin tries to map a drive on AgilePoint NX server machine manually, it will not be usable by AgilePoint NX server as it is not mapped in context of this service. This is where intricacies of Map drive and how it works at O/S level shows up and that is what we are going…
Client Side Rendering Vs Server Side Rendering – Part 1
Often times a topic comes up during design phase of a project that with regards to choice of form technology, it is better to go for client side rendering technologies like HTML 5, JQuery, CSS or server side technologies like ASP.Net and which one is better for content based webpages Vs digital forms Difference Between…
Expose AgilePoint NX forms to people outside company network
A lot of times, clients want to create their customer facing apps as well as expose them to the users without having to create separate login ID’s for each one of them and still maintain some security aspects. On top of it some of them want to even include these anonymous users at some point…