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jmass wrote:
jegelstaff has Formulize which should be released soon - please 
Maybe over the holidays, but probably shortly after in January.
And I should mention that it is not in Beta. It is currently in use in a production environment with over 1000 users.
Draven just started a thread about PHPSurveyor here:
https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=28093
And for anyone interested, I posted some info about Formulize in another thread here, on page 2 (this thread has some info about Mith's module too):
https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=26987
In a nutshell, Formulize is an ad hoc form creation and reporting tool. It's based on Formulaire.
You can use its graphical interface to create any kind of data entry form you care to have, Status Report, Registration Form, Activity Log, Task List, Inventory Tracker, any kind of situation where you're filling in a form to record data in a database.
The data is stored in the database, and can be reported on (searched and aggregated) using the integrated reporting tools. You can also save reports for your own reference, or publish reports to other users.
There is a detailed permission system that lets you control which groups of users have what level of access to which forms. There are also some "advanced" features that let administrators submit data on behalf of other users (manual entry), and let you link two forms together so the entries in one field in one form become the options in a field in another form. And it's tied into the XOOPS notification system too.
As I mentioned in that other thread though, it's a little rough around the edges.
It's pretty much bug free (there's some minor stuff on the admin side that there are workarounds for), but under the hood the code is a bit messy, making refinements and improvements a challenge. We're doing a small bit of cleanup, and some documentation prior to release.
We have some far out plans for where it might go in the future. I would like to see some flexibility added to the front-end user interface, so you can pick what "screen" is the default for a particular form (either the "add an entry" screen or a specific report), and also the ability to define some reports and set them up as dedicated links in the navigation UI for that particular form, so you have fast access to the really useful views of the data.
For example, this would let you create a form such as a task list, define some "views" or reports on the data that has been entered, set one of those reports as the default view, and thereby essentially create a "task list module" for XOOPS, without any programming whatsoever.
There's a very basic demo available here:
http://demo.freeformsolutions.ca
There are two forms in the "Form Menu" when you login, and they show the two basic kinds of forms that are possible (there's a couple other variations too): multiple entry (Activity Log) and single entry (Conference Registration).
(JMass, the Conference Registration form is newly added to the demo.)
We're looking forward to working with the community on future versions of Formulize in the new year.
--Julian
