What's New

Systems Administration Module

Administrators now have extensive tools to manage Composer, from the Organization level, to the Project level and down to individual forms. The module will have a dedicated document on its use.

 

oData import and export

oOrganization Management

oRelease Management

oManagement of the Library stacks

oAllocating Users to Organizations and Projects

oError Log

oEvent Log

oOngoing Maintenance

 

Multi-channel Input

The user can, when interrupted, continue filling in the same form on another device, without having to re-enter data. For example, users could begin a form on their tablet while on public transport, reach their destination and later resume the form on a desktop device. This ability to move seamlessly between smartphone, tablet and desktop has become a necessity. Not only will users appreciate it, but it also will reduce the rate of abandonment of forms.

 

Access Control Module

Greatly improved access control, with much finer control over the permissions granted to roles.

 

Performance

Composer is the Avoka Transact forms designer component of the Transact suite. Version 4 is an extensive redesign of the User Interface of the product bringing improvements across the board.

 

•Faster loading of organizations and forms.

oComposer now loads an organization's configuration and then caches it.

oAs a result, forms in the organization load faster
 

•Redesigned "Edit Properties" dialog for widget configuration and management. The dialog now has a more useable layout for accessing the many parameters and properties of each form element.
 

•Improved template control and and style choosers.

oForms now can have some Sections behave like Wizards (having their own separate pages) and others following on from the previous Section on the same page.

oNew template features such navigation bars, 2-tier navigation and mobile slider menus

oMore localization presets for more regions, languages ans scripts.
 

•Improved Responsive Layout rules

oFiner control for the various mobile device sizes

oNew mobile layouts, such a slider menus and redesigned widgets

oImproved appearance of all form elements in mobile
 

•Multi-channel support

oUsers can begin filling in a form on one device, save it and then resume on another device

 

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•Vastly improved handling of reused form elements.

oPasted elements now just work; no need to tinker with Edit Properties any more.

oReuse of form elements now efficient, no fiddling required.

oFaster design of complex forms because of ease of reuse of form elements
 

•Improved access control interface for administrators.

oFine-grained control over user access to Libraries, Organizations and Projects

 

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•New stylesheet editor

oHas a graphical interface

oDisplays the Named Styles and Typed styles in a structure panel

oPowerful editor of all properties of the styles

 

•Much improved template editor user interface.

oHas a dedicated template tool, with its own wireframe for previewing template changes.

oCan save the Template without having to push changes from forms

 

•Control over the triggering

oComplex forms can now be optimized and their lag times improved

 

•The new Collaboration feature

oForms can be designed with a multi-step workflow

 

•Form sharing

oForms can now be shared with several parties before the form is submitted

oEach party can supply further details or review the form before its submission

 

•All forms in a project can now be published to Transaction Manager in a single action by an administrator.