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Overview and Demonstration

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Harley DavidsonHarley Davidson

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Agenda

Overview

D iDemonstrationCreate a FormForms within a portal

Futures

Summary

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Manual Forms create challenges on many levelsManual Forms create challenges on many levels…“Print and Fill”

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Lotus FormsLotus FormsFileNet

P8

ContentManager

WebsphereProcessServer

Lotus Forms Services Platform

Lotus Forms TurboZero footprint, turnkey forms

Quick and easy!

DB2

App Server / Portal

Lotus Forms Webform ServerBrowser based zero footprint access from inside or outside

the corporate firewall Lotus Forms Services PlatformA framework for integrating forms

with business applications

Lotus Forms APIAPIs to manipulate Forms

Lotus Forms DesignerAn Eclipse-based drag-

Lotus Forms ViewerA rich client for mobile or

disconnected users An Eclipse based, dragand-drop forms editor.

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What’s inside the Form?Presentation Layer

What’s inside the Form?High-fidelity for duplicating paper formsGuided-interview, or wizard, driven

Business Logic

Capture forms processes in the formIntegrate business process workflows

Data Instances

Based on W3C XForms specificationMultiple XML payloads for integrationValidate against external XML Schemasg

File Attachments

C t l t t tiCapture complete transactionSupplemental or associated eFormsMS Office, videos, faxes, etc.

Security

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Demonstration 1: Create a simple form

Scenario 1: Overview

Scenario 2: Creating a form

S i 3 L d Shi T ddScenario 3: Logo and Ship To address

Scenario 4: Input control and data binding

Scenario 5: Bill To section visibility

Scenario 6: Table CreationScenario 6: Table Creation

Scenario 7: Table Calculation

Scenario 8: Grand Total

Scenario 9: Finished Form

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Scenario 1: Overview

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Scenario 2: Creating a FormWhat you are going to see

A form being created

A li f il bl lA list of available templates

Example of pre built functionalityExample of pre-built functionality

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Scenario 2: Creating a FormWhat were the highlights

Provide prebuilt and customised templatestemplates

Fast start for form creation

Maintain consistent look and feel

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Scenario 3: Logo and Ship To addressWhat you are going to see

Adding a logo

Ch i h f iChanging the font size

XML schemaXML schema

ShipTo user interface controlsp

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Scenario 3: Logo and Ship To addressWhat were the highlights

Easy to modify the forms appearance

S li l b UI d i d dSplit roles between UI design and data creation

Quickly create form components using d d ddrag and drop

Automatically link user interface andAutomatically link user interface and underlying data

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Scenario 4: Input control and data bindingWhat you are going to see

User Interface Palette

D d d dDrag and drop data

Hide elements based on user selectionHide elements based on user selection

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Scenario 4: Input control and data bindingWhat were the highlights

Multiple ways of creating the form UI

E il bi d d d UIEasily bind data and UI

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Scenario 5: Bill To section visibilityWhat you are going to see

Drag and drop UI component

U i d b i lUse a wizard to create a business rule

Define when a UI component is visibleDefine when a UI component is visible

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Scenario 5: Bill To section visibilityWhat were the highlights

Business rules can be used to hide or show UI componentsshow UI components

Can create a single form which can be gused by multiple end user types

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Scenario 6: Creating a TableWhat you are going to see

Create a table using a wizard

C i h l k d f l f h blCustomise the look and feel of the table

Create a dynamic UI componentCreate a dynamic UI component

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Scenario 6: Creating a TableWhat were the highlights

Wizards provide quick start tooling

D i l il bl i hi liDynamic elements available within live forms

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Scenario 7: Table CalculationWhat you are going to see

Use a wizard to build a multiplication rulerule

View the XPATH output of the rulep

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Scenario 7: Table CalculationWhat were the highlights

Wizards reduce the complexity of learning XPATHlearning XPATH

Wizards provide a quick start toolp q

Table calculations can be built quickly d iland easily

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Scenario 8: Grand TotalWhat you are going to see

Creating the tables grand total field

Ali i UI lAligning UI elements

Binding results to the underlying dataBinding results to the underlying data

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Scenario 8: Grand TotalWhat were the highlights

Common form elements can be created easilyeasily.

Table calculations for dynamic content ycan be created quickly

N l i i d tNo manual programming required to bind results to data.

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Scenario 9: Finished formWhat you are going to see

The finished form

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Summary

Easy and simple to use interface

F b d i klForms can be created quickly

Wizards hide complexity of XFormsWizards hide complexity of XForms technology

Development and design roles can be segmentedsegmented

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Demo 2: Banking Portal

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Summary

Make life easier for form users

C f i kl d ilCreate forms quickly and easily

Reduce the cost of form basedReduce the cost of form based transactions

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Buzzword Bingo

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Thi kTh kThinkThank you

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