Components
FormReturn's Components which streamline form design with the Processing of Captured Response Data:
- Template Editors - used for designing, publishing and printing forms ( OMR Bubble Sheets )
- Source Data - is FormReturn's database, used for storing data tables with records, published form structure and captured response data.
- Processing Queue for uploading scanned form images.
- Captured Data for managing the captured response data.
- Preferences - for choosing your preferences for FormReturn on your computer.
- FormReturn Server - used for storing and processing data.
Template Editors
The Template Editors are the Segment editor and the Form editor, used to add the Form Components.
A segment is designed as a separate component, then added to the form template. The checkbox tool in the segment editor toolbar is used to add the
checkbox mark areas. Each segment has it's own segment barcodes, located
at the top right and bottom left. These barcodes are
used to locate where all mark areas are during processing and data capture of the returned, completed forms.
Quick Start to Design a Segment Template
The form editor is used to create the form template. Each published page of a form template contains:
- A Form ID Barcode for reconciling the captured checkbox response data with the form page and the data table record it belongs to.
- A segment containing the checkbox mark areas.
- Any other information you want added to the form template.
A form template is published, assigning it to a Source data table you have created in FormReturn's database.
Form Editor
Source Data
Source Data is FormReturn's database where data tables are added for storing records.
When a form is published, choose the data table with the records of the form's respondents, so that FormReturn will reconcile each form's responses with the record it belongs to and store them together in FormReturn's Captured Data.
Note: For anonymous forms Eg: surveys which don't need to link to any particular records, an empty data table is created to link the captured response data with.
Adding Source Data
Processing Queue
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The Processing Queue is where scanned form images are uploaded to FormReturn and then wait to be sent to the incoming images table in the FormReturn Server. This would happen instantly unless a large number of forms is uploaded at once, which would take a few minutes depending on the number of forms.
The Form Processor processes the images one at a time and sends the processed response results to captured data where they are stored and managed. Because Image processing takes a matter of seconds, hundreds or thousands of forms can be processed each day, depending on the quality and speed of your computer and scanner.
Manage the Processing Queue
Captured Data
Captured Data is where the response data from the returned forms is stored. The captured data and the processed form image can be viewed and the exported to a spreadsheet which can be used for reporting.
Manage Captured Data
Preferences
Preferences can be used to set general and database preferences for FormReturn.
General Preferences
The FormReturn Server
The FormReturn Server is used for two things:
- The form processor, which marks the forms using OMR and sends the results to captured data.
- The database, used for storing data tables, storing form structure information and storing the captured response data.
