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[Dave McCormick]

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[Ted Giles]

Well credit where credit is due.
This is a very slick and easy piece of software to capture on the hoof stuff in a mobile working environment. Well done Alpha.
I registered and used my DT to create a simple form, loaded Transform app from the App Store and away we went. It really is super simple to get started.
It seems a bit "clunky" with the update messages as opposed to a web app designed for mobiles running against a SQL database, but then it is for non-techies to use so gives a level of confirmation and comfort.
The location search was a bit iffy, and there does not appear to be a simple way to create a lookup list (not a Yes/No list) of say, people or buildings, but then I started from scratch and didn't use the predefined forms.
I really liked the quick and easy photo and signature additions, not so keen on the phone layout menu, but that's a personal thing and the phone apps I have developed are for people with sausage fingers.

All in all, a very good product, and we will get to see if it is affordable in the future I suspect.
I hope it catches on however in the UK we are almost covered for mobile data so off-line is less of an issue than in the USA.
Once data is available I presume it can be analysed easily and downloaded to a server of choice, but that might be in the future.

So an hour well spent as far as I am concerned.

[glenschild]

Well credit where credit is due.
This is a very slick and easy piece of software to capture on the hoof stuff in a mobile working environment. Well done Alpha.
I registered and used my DT to create a simple form, loaded Transform app from the App Store and away we went. It really is super simple to get started.
It seems a bit "clunky" with the update messages as opposed to a web app designed for mobiles running against a SQL database, but then it is for non-techies to use so gives a level of confirmation and comfort.
The location search was a bit iffy, and there does not appear to be a simple way to create a lookup list (not a Yes/No list) of say, people or buildings, but then I started from scratch and didn't use the predefined forms.
I really liked the quick and easy photo and signature additions, not so keen on the phone layout menu, but that's a personal thing and the phone apps I have developed are for people with sausage fingers.

All in all, a very good product, and we will get to see if it is affordable in the future I suspect.
I hope it catches on however in the UK we are almost covered for mobile data so off-line is less of an issue than in the USA.
Once data is available I presume it can be analysed easily and downloaded to a server of choice, but that might be in the future.

So an hour well spent as far as I am concerned.

And very straightforward to integrate with an alpha anywhere application! Both in pushing partially completed forms out to a user and grabbing the data back into an application!

[Ted Giles]

So how would that work then?
My app running on my servers, AT running on thecAlpha Cloud.

[glenschild]

Using the api connectivity already built into AA

[Ted Giles]

Thanks. I will try it with my chosen web development kit. I don't use AA web.