LiquidOffice Form Designer was developed specifically to support distributed form design and to provide office workers with the ability to easily create and publish rich online forms.

Rapid Design And Publishing

LiquidOffice Form Designer is a drag and drop application that provides an intuitive, easy to use interface for novice form designers, while offering powerful tools, such as "snap-to" guides and comprehensive field setups, for more advanced form designers.

LiquidOffice Form Designer comes with a wide selection of sample forms and a Gallery of pre-made form and field templates. Custom form elements can be created and saved into the Gallery, facilitating corporate standards for forms creation and design.

LiquidOffice Form Designer also includes point and click controls for setting the attributes for database-driven pull-down menus, auto-fill fields based on user profile fields, electronic signatures, a comprehensive expression builder for building calculations and field validations, and other "smart" form settings. LiquidOffice Form Designer includes a robust JavaScript editor that allows users to add custom business rules processing to HTML or PDF eForms.

The LiquidOffice Gallery offers form designers basic form elements and pre-made form fields to help users expedite form design process. Users are also able to save custom designed elements back into the Gallery for future use.

LiquidOffice offers intuitive point & click controls for designers to quickly and accurately set up business rules for the form.

Design Protection Open Standards

Professional form designers often discover that forms designed and saved using a proprietary or application specific format offers absolutely no portability into other applications.

Even with just a few forms, a locked-in proprietary solution creates significant future costs and limitations. For enterprise and government users, the migration path to supporting future form presentation options could require redesigning thousands of forms that could represent millions of dollars in future costs.

LiquidOffice was developed to protect the investment in the design and customization of forms created using the LiquidOffice Form Designer. Design protection is offered in the following ways:

Open eForms format support

LiquidOffice is a Web-based system that uses XML, HTML, and PDF, open eForm standards to implement automated electronic forms without the use of proprietary clients or form fill plug-ins. The internal format structure for LiquidOffice forms is XML, which enables the design on form and publishing to many formats.

Use of JavaScript

LiquidOffice Form Designer and Form Server use JavaScript as the internal scripting language. This enhances the portability of your validations and customized functions.

Support for accessible online forms

The LiquidOffice Form Designer helps government agencies meet accessibility requirements defined by Section 508 and W3C WAI requirements. The screen reading order of form fields can be set via a point and click user interface in the Form Designer. Users who are visually impaired will be able to then navigate through a LiquidOffice, PDF, or HTML with the assistance of a screen reader like Jaws (available from Freedom Scientific).

Form Conversion With Texcel FormBridge

To fully realize the benefits of LiquidOffice, you'll want to migrate all your forms into the LiquidOffice environment as quickly as possible, for which purpose Cardiff has formed a partnership with Texcel Systems to integrate their FormBridge solution; making form migration as accurate, easy, and cost-effective as possible.

Texcel FormBridge converts all your forms into LiquidOffice forms. FormBridge translates PDF files forms that are fully editable in LiquidOffice Form Designer, as well as converting from a range of other sources including:

Adobe-Accelio, FormFlow and other eforms software

Microsoft Word and WordPerfect

QuarkXPress and Adobe PageMaker

Existing PDF form

Scanned paper forms