Flovv Tutorial  |
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The following tutorial will guide you through most of the fundamental concepts behind flovv. The first chapter will give you some guiding principles in designing flovvs. Important Function of Flovv will give introductions to the features you will interact with. Go to My First Simple Flovv if you want to dig directly in to flovv building. Building Flovvs with branching will show you few of the unique features of flovv. Contact us on email or skype if you have any feedback. |
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| Tips on making your first "Flovv of Forms" - Flovv |
| A Flovv is a series of linked forms that shape up the information collection you need in an easy to fill manner. We suggest you read the following tips before you venture in to building your first flovv. It details couple of principles that we have come across on building a flow of forms. |
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| Linked forms to Increase Usability |
- Only Related information on a Single Page: In a Flow of Forms, information that is gathered on a single page is related to one another. Unrelated information is split to another page. It brings clarity to the background thinking that takes place in the mind of the visitor.
- Playing along with the instincts: Web users are also driven by an instinctive feeling, ‘When do I get to click again'. We have got used to this feeling. We are more encouraged to find the next link to click, because for years it has worked on the Internet. Many usability experts point out that, the people do not read the content on a web page. They scan though to find the closest match to their need.
- Flovv and the linked pages achieve it. This hard wired feeling of the need to click, makes your visitor to a ‘Flow of Forms’, more self satisfied. Simply because Flovv let you ask the few questions that are related and put the rest of the questions on another page. This way Flovv let you neatly organize set of pages that are linked, without much effort. The sense of completeness and confidence builds up in the visitor, every time he moves to a new page.
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| Find our more how you can make your visitor be thrilled, learn how to build First Simple Flovv. |
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| Build Complex Forms and still let ‘em be Happy |
- If you say you don’t have any children, what do you say when being asked to give the age of your eldest child? It’s a frustrating and an uneasy feeling. The very feeling that thousands of people experience when they try to fill those huge paper forms, over loaded questions. Questions that you don’t even need to answer on the first place! Like the age of your eldest child!
- When you build a Flovv, your visitor will not have to tell how many dogs they have when he has already told that he does not like pets. We achieve this by letting you decide which page the user should go to, depending on the answers they give on the previous pages.
- For example, when your visitor has already checked the box, No, I don't have pets, you can let him skip the Pets Detail page and directly go to the Contact Details page.
- Find out more how you can let your users be thrilled and still get them to fill up a Complex form, go to Building a Flovv with Branching. There you will learn how to build simple conditions that will change the path that the user takes on a Flow of Forms.
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| Connect your Flovv to other Applications |
| Flovv can be connected to other applications and services such as third party CAS, databases and can be integrated to your organisations’ online service portal. |
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