Collect data on a Confluence page

February 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Our customers use Live Forms for Confluence for surveys, event registrations etc. where the result data is downloaded to MS Excel. But sometimes, people want to do more. They want to format the results as a table and add a graph, display the results in specific ways etc.

Confluence and its rich set of plugins is the ideal platform for this and with frevvo Live Forms you can now easily create forms [and even workflows] and collect submissions on a Confluence page. Then, use arbitrary macros to create tables, charts, Tab views etc.

Watch a 3.5 min video below.

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Time is precious for any business, especially a non-profit

January 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Gateway to College National Network (GtCNN) is a national nonprofit organization that’s tackling the dropout crisis and catalyzing change across developmental education in college.

As they grow, it’s harder and far more expensive to use email and Word documents for business-critical things like accurately harvesting contact information for their large and growing national user base.

They’re using frevvo Live Forms for Confluence together with the built-in SQL connector, Excel export and workflows to reduce 50-60% of staff hours spent on conference registration and contact management.

Read the case study.

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It’s amazing what you learn from customers

January 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Every time I talk to a customer, I learn something interesting. Syracuse University bought our Live Forms product. I thought they were buying it to use forms as part of IT-developed web applications. The relatively complicated stuff. I think so did they …

Turns out, once they deployed frevvo, they realized that a lot of precious IT time was being spent to do simple things like event registration, food services surveys etc. The fact that a business user can create a simple form with frevvo and crucially, can collect and download the submissions themselves to MS Excel, makes this a killer app for frevvo within Syracuse.

Today, when someone wants to build a simple survey or registration form, the IT guys spend 5 minutes creating an account.

Now, they’re still going to use it for the complex stuff but this one basic use of frevvo is enough to justify the price and they see positive ROI. I’m hearing this over and over again from customers. It’s cool.

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Surveys, Event Registrations … in Confluence. Download to Excel.

December 14, 2010 by Leave a Comment

How can you expand your Confluence-based Intranet so that your employees can do some of the common things organizations do like surveys and event registrations without needing a programmer every time?

What if your marketing employees could create a Confluence page, add a webinar registration form to it, view the registrations in Confluence or download them to Excel?

With Live Forms for Confluence, anyone can do it. See how easy it is in this video (less than 3 min)

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Excited about our new Confluence release

November 23, 2010 by Leave a Comment

It’s been an unbelievable time – obviously, we haven’t updated the blog at all recently. We’re really excited about our new product for Atlassian Confluence. We’ve been working with quite a few customers who have now successfully used frevvo within Confluence for things like:

  • Issue tracking systems
  • Event registration (download submissions to MS Excel)
  • Patient referral
  • Student enrollment

and many other applications.

The new version has full user/group integration with Confluence, works with your Active Directory/LDAP systems, includes workflows, digital signatures, task lists in Confluence, the ability to create/update Confluence pages from forms & workflows, the ability to collect multiple submissions in a single Confluence page etc.

I’ll be writing more about these over the next several weeks.

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