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Can Laserfiche Forms be used for data entry?

Laserfiche Forms Version 10
Updated January 18, 2019
asked on January 17, 2019

We have an older data entry system that we are looking at doing away with and we were wondering if Laserfiche Forms could act as a collector for field data that can be passed off to like documents (Same document numbers)? Is anyone doing this or can it be done?

Our current data entry system captures the document number along with other field data and we export this data into a file that is uploaded into Laserfiche to populate metadata for existing images.

 

Asking for one of our developers.

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replied on January 17, 2019

Robin,

The quick answer is yes, Forms can act as a front end for data maintenance of back end systems.  We use this approach quite often when we have to maintain SQL tables on the back end.

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replied on January 17, 2019

Agreed, we do the same thing for a growing number of processes because the UI already has a lot of helpful functionality built-in like validation, formatting, and authentication.

On the back end, I use Workflow to sanitize the inputs and pass the data back into the database.

However, avoid pulling a large amount of data onto a form because you will start to see performance issues if you have a table with a lot of columns and rows that comes from a lookup.

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replied on January 17, 2019

Are you using the Forms Essentials (basic version) or the full package?  Just curious. And how are your data entry users licensed?

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replied on January 17, 2019

We have Forms Professional (I don't believe Forms Essentials has data source/lookup functionality).

All of our internal users are licensed, either with Participant or Named User licenses, but most are just Participant users.

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replied on January 18, 2019

Thank you for your input, it has been very helpful. We currently have the Essentials package and are waiting to get it setup. If it works for us, I will let you know.

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