Menu navigation of the component
The Visforms component is located in the Jooma menu directly under the menu item ‘Components’. The menu items of the Visforms component allow access to a wide variety of areas, which are summarized in an overview below.
Static menu items
The Visforms component has several static menu items in the Jooma menu.
Note: Static menu items always appear.
Dashboard
The dashboard provides the following at the top level:
- Getting started: Create a new form.
- Getting started: Central list of the first steps.
- Access to Subscription and download-ID management.
- Central information and configurations.
- Important access to documentation and forum.
Forms
The form list provides central access to everything that is directly related to all or a single form:
- List of all forms.
- Overview of important form information.
- Overview of fields, data, PDF templates of a form.
- Access to the lists of fields, data, PDF templates of a form.
- Opening a form for configuration.
- Creating and exporting a form.
- Selection boxes for applying the actions to multiple forms at the same time.
Form Factory
The Form Factory enables the central, quick creation of a new, complete form in one step:
- Creating the form, including important basic options.
- Creating the fields in one step, including important basic options.
- Creating the fields in one step, according to choice and modification from predefined field lists.
- Direct access to creating the various menus for the form.
- Direct access to editing the fields created for the form.
- Direct access to creating PDF templates for the form.
- Creating sample data for the form for testing purposes.
Inspector
The inspector provides a central overview of important technical details of the installation and the server environment:
- Checking the installation and listing missing files.
- Visforms relevant settings in the PHP configuration.
- Visforms relevant settings in the SQL Server configuration.
- Visforms log entries.
Dynamic menu items
The Visforms component has additional dynamic menu items below the fixed menu items if a form is selected. Dynamic menu items always refer to the currently selected form. The current form is usually the last form selected.
Note: Dynamic menu items appear after a form has been selected.
Form fields
The field list provides central access to everything that is directly related to all or a single form field:
- List of all fields for a form.
- Opening a form field for configuration.
- Overview of important field information.
- Setting the field order in the form.
- Setting the field order in the data view in the frontend.
- Activating and deactivating entire fields.
Form PDF Templates
The PDF template list provides central access to everything that is directly related to all or a single PDF template of the form:
- List of all PDF templates for a form.
- Opening a PDF template for configuration.
- Overview of important PDF template information.
- Activating and deactivating entire PDF templates.
Form data
The data list provides central access to everything that is directly related to all or a single data record of the form:
- List of all data records (user submissions, form data).
- Opening a data record for modification.
- Overview of important data record information.