The Publication of your form template causes the template information to be stored in Captured Data in
FormReturn's database, ready to be reconciled with the processed data, captured from completed forms.
The captured response data from each form page is stored with it's publication in captured data, along with the respondent's record it belongs to and the scanned image of the form page.
Note: If you delete the publication from Captured Data before the forms
have been processed, the processed data will have nothing to reconcile with and you
will have to re-publish the template, print the forms again and have
the respondents fill them out again.
Publish Form Tab
Publication Type
Tips: Before you publish your form template:
- Make sure you have set up your Mark areas correctly and the aggregation rule if you are using one.
- Make sure you have added your chosen method of form identification to your template.
- Make sure you have test previewed your form template, to make sure data can be detected from images produced by your scanner.
- Add your data table to Source Data with respondent's records added for the captured response data to reconcile with. If your forms are completely anonymous, you will create an empty data table for the publication to reconcile with.
- Make sure you know which Publication Type you will be choosing depending on the Form Identification method you used.
Publish Form Tab
The Publish Form Tab in the Form Editor Application.
When you publish the form template, you will select a data table from Source Data to reconcile the Captured Response data with.
Publications Panel shows a list of the publications performed so far using the selected table.
Type a Publication name for your test or survey.
- A check is made to verify a Form ID Barcode has been added to each page of the form template. FormReturn uses the Form ID
barcode to reconcile the captured responses with the data table
records.
Publication Type
Choose a Publication Type which tells the software how to reconcile the captured data from each form, with the Data table record it belongs with.
Full guide to Form Publication