Archive for February, 2008

Website forms

February 11th, 2008

Many of our customers use our website form builder to create forms that send information straight from their website into their Trackvia databases. (If you haven’t tried this feature yet, you should take a look at it through the Tools / website forms link on every database’s overview page. You can try and test this feature straight from your desktop – you don’t have to put the form on a website to see it in action!) Once they get the initial version of the form working, they often find that they want to modify their forms either aesthetically or functionally. There’s actually a huge amount of flexibility with our forms either by modifying the HTML, and/or by adding some JavaScript (don’t let these words scare you by the way, we can help you).

Some of the things we can easily help you with to customize your website forms:

  • Change the database field names to longer or different wording on the form
  • Insert background color or image
  • Format the font (size, color, type)

Also, you can use JavaScript to make your form more functional! Some popular requests for modifying the form are to have the “today” link and the “more” options for date fields that you see in TrackVia. We’ve even built custom JavaScript functions that send an email to the correct person depending on what office is selected from a dropdown list for customers. If you would like for your form to do something special, please email us at support@trackvia.com.

What’s a “use case?”

February 8th, 2008

The term “use case,” as we use it at TrackVia, is just a phrase that means the way any given customer uses our software. For example, one popular use case for TrackVia is to keep track of the resumes and cover letters of job applicants. Another popular use case is to set up a TrackVia website form so that website visitors can sign up for a company’s newsletter, and then the company can send the newsletter to the subscribers using our email campaign feature.We think all of our customers’ use cases are interesting – particularly some of the ones that show us just how creative customers can be with our technology – using TrackVia in ways that we hadn’t thought of.

  • A nonprofit Sheltie rescue organization tracks dogs in TrackVia, and uses our “website display” feature to publish a real-time display on their website of the dogs that are available for adoption, including pictures and bios: www.mnsheltierescue.org
  • Bruce Wall is a customer of ours and is a realtor in Conway, Arkansas. Bruce uses TrackVia to display a report showing properties that he’s recently sold: http://soldonfaulknercounty.com/larger-sold-homes.asp
  • Here’s a sample page on our website that shows how you can combine two of our great website features to publish a website form and a real-time report that shows the submissions from the website form: www.trackvia.com/samplePublishedReport.htm