I'm pleased to announce the release of Dimagi's new form designer: Vellum!
You can try it at http://xforms.dimagi.com.
Some features:
Tree drag and drop support
Fast load times
Improved XForm compatibility
Support for a wide variety of question types (including 'secret')
Support for advanced options (such as JR:PreloadParams)
A simplified Internationalization interface: All questions are
automatically turned into IText. No more worrying about default labels
versus default Itext labels, itext ID, etc.
Validation checking as-you-edit. Vellum will monitor your form as you
make edits and let you know when you try to do something that will result in
an invalid form.
Excel Itext import and export (experimental)
Upcoming Features:
Question templates (e.g. one click to add the common Yes/No/Maybe/NA
single select question)
Excel Support: import forms made in an xls template (such as
XLS2Xformshttp://xform.childcount.org/file for fine tuning in the
FD)
A skip logic/constraint wizard interface (for building simple logic
into your forms)
I would be happy to receive any feedback (including feature requests) from
the community. You can submit bug tickets/feature requests to our ticketing
system by sending mail to formdesigner-support@dimagi.com or you can contact
me directly at this email address.
···
--
Anton de Winter
Dimagi Inc
(617) 692 0786
529 Main St
Charlestown, MA
02129
Is there a Vellum build that can be deployed locally? How do I open a
form I saved to the server?
Thanks,
Adjoa
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On Aug 22, 3:07 pm, Anton de Winter wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm pleased to announce the release of Dimagi's new form designer: Vellum!
> You can try it athttp://xforms.dimagi.com.
>
> Some features:
>
> - Tree drag and drop support
> - Fast load times
> - Improved XForm compatibility
> - Support for a wide variety of question types (including 'secret')
> - Support for advanced options (such as JR:PreloadParams)
> - A simplified Internationalization interface: All questions are
> automatically turned into IText. No more worrying about default labels
> versus default Itext labels, itext ID, etc.
> - Validation checking as-you-edit. Vellum will monitor your form as you
> make edits and let you know when you try to do something that will result in
> an invalid form.
> - Excel Itext import and export (experimental)
>
> Upcoming Features:
>
> - Question templates (e.g. one click to add the common Yes/No/Maybe/NA
> single select question)
> - Excel Support: import forms made in an xls template (such as
> XLS2Xformsfile for fine tuning in the
> FD)
> - A skip logic/constraint wizard interface (for building simple logic
> into your forms)
>
> I would be happy to receive any feedback (including feature requests) from
> the community. You can submit bug tickets/feature requests to our ticketing
> system by sending mail to formdesigner-supp...@dimagi.com or you can contact
> me directly at this email address.
>
> --
> Anton de Winter
> Dimagi Inc
> (617) 692 0786
> 529 Main St
> Charlestown, MA
> 02129
The URL you provided (some time back) gives a 503 response. Do you now have
a different URL so I could see Vellum?
Cheers,
Paul.
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On Monday, August 22, 2011 8:07:09 PM UTC+1, Anton de Winter wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm pleased to announce the release of Dimagi's new form designer: Vellum!
> You can try it at http://xforms.dimagi.com.
>
> Some features:
>
> - Tree drag and drop support
> - Fast load times
> - Improved XForm compatibility
> - Support for a wide variety of question types (including 'secret')
> - Support for advanced options (such as JR:PreloadParams)
> - A simplified Internationalization interface: All questions are
> automatically turned into IText. No more worrying about default labels
> versus default Itext labels, itext ID, etc.
> - Validation checking as-you-edit. Vellum will monitor your form as
> you make edits and let you know when you try to do something that will
> result in an invalid form.
> - Excel Itext import and export (experimental)
>
>
> Upcoming Features:
>
> - Question templates (e.g. one click to add the common Yes/No/Maybe/NA
> single select question)
> - Excel Support: import forms made in an xls template (such as
> XLS2Xforms file for fine tuning in the
> FD)
> - A skip logic/constraint wizard interface (for building simple logic
> into your forms)
>
> I would be happy to receive any feedback (including feature requests) from
> the community. You can submit bug tickets/feature requests to our
> ticketing system by sending mail to formdesign...@dimagi.com or you can contact me directly at this email address.
>
>
> --
> Anton de Winter
> Dimagi Inc
> (617) 692 0786
> 529 Main St
> Charlestown, MA
> 02129
>
>
Yes, you should be able to checkout the latest build from the develop branch
at https://github.com/dimagi/FormDesignerAlpha/tree/develop . Check the
README for instructions on how to get it running on your local machine (I
just updated it).
Let me know if you run into any problems with getting setup.
Cheers,
Anton
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:01 PM, adjoa wrote:
Anton,
Is there a Vellum build that can be deployed locally? How do I open a
form I saved to the server?
I'm pleased to announce the release of Dimagi's new form designer:
Vellum!
You can try it athttp://xforms.dimagi.com.
Some features:
Tree drag and drop support
Fast load times
Improved XForm compatibility
Support for a wide variety of question types (including 'secret')
Support for advanced options (such as JR:PreloadParams)
A simplified Internationalization interface: All questions are
automatically turned into IText. No more worrying about default labels
versus default Itext labels, itext ID, etc.
Validation checking as-you-edit. Vellum will monitor your form as
you
make edits and let you know when you try to do something that will
result in
an invalid form.
Excel Itext import and export (experimental)
Upcoming Features:
Question templates (e.g. one click to add the common Yes/No/Maybe/NA
single select question)
Excel Support: import forms made in an xls template (such as
XLS2Xformshttp://xform.childcount.org/file for fine tuning in the
FD)
A skip logic/constraint wizard interface (for building simple logic
into your forms)
I would be happy to receive any feedback (including feature requests)
from
the community. You can submit bug tickets/feature requests to our
ticketing
system by sending mail to formdesigner-supp...@dimagi.com or you can
contact
me directly at this email address.
--
Anton de Winter
Dimagi Inc http://www.dimagi.com
(617) 692 0786
529 Main St
Charlestown, MA
02129
The URL you provided (some time back) gives a 503 response. Do you now
have a different URL so I could see Vellum?
Currently the easiest way to try the latest version of vellum is to sign up
for a domain on commcare hq: http://www.commcarehq.org/home/
Unfortunately I don't think there is a standalone version hosted anymore.
Cory
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:07 AM, pttw wrote:
Cheers,
Paul.
On Monday, August 22, 2011 8:07:09 PM UTC+1, Anton de Winter wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I'm pleased to announce the release of Dimagi's new form designer:
Vellum! You can try it at http://xforms.dimagi.com.
Some features:
Tree drag and drop support
Fast load times
Improved XForm compatibility
Support for a wide variety of question types (including 'secret')
Support for advanced options (such as JR:PreloadParams)
A simplified Internationalization interface: All questions are
automatically turned into IText. No more worrying about default labels
versus default Itext labels, itext ID, etc.
Validation checking as-you-edit. Vellum will monitor your form as
you make edits and let you know when you try to do something that will
result in an invalid form.
Excel Itext import and export (experimental)
Upcoming Features:
Question templates (e.g. one click to add the common
Yes/No/Maybe/NA single select question)
Excel Support: import forms made in an xls template (such as
XLS2Xforms http://xform.childcount.org/ file for fine tuning in the
FD)
A skip logic/constraint wizard interface (for building simple logic
into your forms)
I would be happy to receive any feedback (including feature requests)
from the community. You can submit bug tickets/feature requests to our
ticketing system by sending mail to formdesign...@dimagi.**com or you
can contact me directly at this email address.
--
Anton de Winter
Dimagi Inc http://www.dimagi.com
(617) 692 0786
529 Main St
Charlestown, MA
02129
Thanks for getting back to me on that. Does the Vellum code require
anything else to run, like CommCare?
Unfortunately we accidentally created a dependency on commcare hq's
javascript and style libraries (mainly twitter bootstrap) recently, so we
have forked the code from there. The latest features and fixes are
dependent on HQ, but there is a standalone branch[1] that you can use that
is a bit behind that should not have any other dependencies. We are hoping
to reconcile the two branches eventually - don't expect it to be a lot of
work.
Does Vellum use a propriety file format to load saved forms for editing
like ODK Build?
Nope, Vellum reads and writes straight up xforms.
Or can you just run Vellum on it's own. In other words can you create a
form, export the XML and save to disk, then when you want to edit the form
you just load the XML file and make your edits?
Yes, this is exactly how it works.
I would like to be able to use Vellum with ODK Collect and with ODK
Aggregate, as a replacement for Build which is a bit of a nightmare to host
on your own server.
You should be able to do this in a single page. Here's an example[2] you
can modify from a django app.
I responded directly to your google mail address (pali0911@googlemail.com)
since this thread didn't seem relevant to these groups.
If you didn't get it, you can follow up with me directly.
Cory
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:52 AM, wrote:
Hi Cory - I had penned part of my response and it disappeared, so I hope I
am not repeating myself.
Thanks for the prompt response.
That is great news about the standalone version. I have cloned this branch
and have it running on my localhost. I had spent a rather frustrating day
(or two) trying to understand why the original code did not display and
then found the external references you have referred to. I was then able to
see the form but without much styling.
Anyway, my next 2 questions are as follows:
what are the functionality differences between this branch and the main
branch and how long would you estimate before they merge?
How do I get the file to save to a specific location in the 'saveUrl:
""' parameter on the index.html page? I have tried a few urls but always
get an error. For example if I want to save to a hosted instance of
Aggregate (for example 'http:dev.mysite.com/Aggregate/formUpload', what
URL should I use?