Posts in Category "FormsCentral"

Flying on Home

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (0)

We all knew this day would come, and it’s finally here: the day the Acrobat.com blog heads back to the home farm, into the welcoming pages of our mother product. Yes, that’s right: we’re joining forces with the Acrobat blog! The way we see it, we’re all one big family: Acrobat and the online services, working together to help you and your team work together. That being the case, it’s time to round up the ducklings and bring all of our future posts about the Acrobat.com services to roost at the Acrobat blog; you’ll find us quacking contentedly over there about each of these services within the larger context of events and announcements for all of Acrobat. This way, you can get all your Acrobat-related information in one place. Just follow us over to the Acrobat blog and subscribe to our feed for the same fresh fodder all about the happy Acrobat family.

 

FormsCentral: Upcoming Webinar

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (0)

Want to see first-hand how simple it is to create forms, surveys, and more? Come to the free FormsCentral webinar and ask your questions of the experts! September 21 @ 10 A.M. PST/1 P.M. EST. Click below to register…

 

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Oh, Happy Day! (Notifications and more in FormsCentral)

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (1)

We’ve all seen the old movies: The scene opens on the protagonist, sitting next to the telephone. Just staring. At the phone. Waiting for it to ring. When it does eventually buzz, the hero or heroine will certainly have an Important Conversation, in which Important Information will be imparted. However, no one – not the audience, not the hero – knows just when that phone might ring. For all we know, our hero might spend the whole night just waiting by the phone and never hear it ring once. He can’t leave the house for fear he’ll miss the call.

Well, don’t wait by the phone any longer. Everyone, you’re hearing it here first: Email notifications have arrived to FormsCentral. Let’s say that again, a bit differently: When new responses are submitted to your form, you’ll get an email notification. No more waiting in the browser, refreshing your screen every two minutes.

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Come a little closer: What’s new in FormsCentral (part 3)

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (0)

Since Adobe FormsCentral first launched in February, we’ve been hearing from customers about all kinds of ways to use it—ways that we could never have imagined when we first started out with the service. Now, born of your innovation (and your many requests for new ways to kick-start certain form types), we present 7 new form templates to support the various ways in which you’ve been using FormsCentral. We like to keep them organized by category, so here they are, according to the type of form they represent.

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Come a little closer: What’s new in FormsCentral (part 2)

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (1)

Last week, we looked at the new Page Skip Logic feature in FormsCentral. Today, let’s examine another new addition to the service: Summary reports. These beauties are now built into your forms once data starts flowing in; without exporting any data or fussing around with other spreadsheet programs, you can view your form’s responses graphically. Today, we’ll go through the details of what these summaries can do for you in FormsCentral.

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Come a little closer: What’s new in FormsCentral (part 1)

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (3)

We feel very lucky to be hearing from all of you about what you need in a good cloud-based forms authoring and distribution service. As you may have read yesterday, we’ve recently been able to implement several brand new features that you have been asking about for some time. In several installments over the next week or two, we’ll take a closer look at these features and what you can now newly do with Adobe FormsCentral!

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Bring your data to life

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (0)

Today’s post comes straight from product manager Randy  Swineford; he’s got some exciting news to share with us about FormsCentral, and we think you’ll be excited to hear it. Read on for details!

 

Since we introduced our online forms service, FormsCentral, we’ve seen all sorts of organizations – from businesses and educational institutions to nonprofits – take advantage of the simplicity and speed our service provides to design, distribute, collect, and analyze data from HTML forms and surveys. Customers have been using FormsCentral for everything from grant applications and satisfaction surveys to class and event registration, as well as research. With the help of FormsCentral, they are moving their organizations forward, maintaining brand integrity, and creating worthwhile experiences for their constituencies. What’s more, they did all this without having to call the IT department.

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Embed your FormsCentral forms! Today!

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (0)

Since its release in February, Adobe FormsCentral has been getting a lot of attention: as a super simple way to build an HTML form and collect, organize, and analyze responses, it cuts a compelling figure in the field. However, one thing we heard from you all from the get-go was: “When will I be able to embed a form in my web page instead of just adding a link to that form?”

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FormsCentral Tutorial, Part 3: The form’s data and what to do with it

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (9)

Okay, everyone, this is it; the moment we’ve been waiting for from the beginning. We’ve created a form. We’ve customized each part of it, tested the whole thing, tailored the messaging for our respondents, and distributed it. People everywhere have filled it out and submitted responses—from their iPads and Android phones to desktop computers and laptops. But why did we create the form in the first place? The obvious answer: to get answers. The submissions come flying in from these from submissions and wind up in the FormsCentral “View Responses” tab, neatly organized in a data table. Let’s take a look at our data and muck around with it; there’s plenty to do with our responses, and we’ll try a few of those things in this post.

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FormsCentral Tutorial, Part 2: Testing and Distributing Your Form

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Rebecca Staley | Comments (0)

Hey, great job making that form the other day with Adobe FormsCentral . I bet when you tested it out you were really excited to see it in action. Wait, what? You haven’t tested it yet? Well, hop to it! And while we’re at it, I have a few extra tips for you when you’re ready to distribute the final product.

Remember Monday, when we talked about how each form you make is entirely under your control? That refers not only to the look and feel of the form (the text formatting, the color of the page, even the layout!), but also—to an extent—to the experience your form respondents will have with the form. When you’re done creating and formatting your form and you’re ready to send it out to make its way in the world, don’t go straight to the “Distribute” tab; use the “Test” tab first. By choosing to test your form before opening it up to responses, you’ll be giving yourself the chance to go through your form and fill it out exactly as your respondents will; your experience and theirs will be identical.

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