aforms suite

The AFS modules & features at a glance

With AFORMSOLUTION (AFS), online dialogs for data collection (forms) are easily created and efficiently managed. AFS forms are responsive and are available for PCs, mobile devices or as print forms.

designer & formserver

With designer & formserver you can easily create and manage forms.
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inbox & relay

The inbox and the relay guarantee secure processing and forwarding of application data.
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tester

The tester automatically checks the functionality of forms.
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portalAPI

With portalAPI, forms can be easily integrated into portals.
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AFS- Basic concepts & features

Form creation without programming knowledge

Form creation with the aforms designer is simple and user-friendly.

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Form navigation & progress bar

A navigation bar and progress bar can be added to AFS forms

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Validation - errors, warnings, info and success

The form data entered is checked on the server side

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Help texts internal & external

By offering online help at field, block and form level, AFS forms can be designed to be user-friendly

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Attachment management

AFS forms can contain fields for attachments

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(Intermediate) saving of form data

The application data entered can be saved 

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Follow-up form

The aforms server can offer further forms when confirming receipt of the application (final page).

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Building block-based

The effectiveness of AFS is based on the building block principle.

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Form dynamics & -logic 

Form dynamics and logic such as showing and hiding elements, validations, calculations or interfaces to third-party systems can be implemented by people without programming knowledge.

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Repetitions & tables

For the entry of a number of similar data records, such as persons in a household or booking lines of an expense report, AFS offers repeatable form elements.

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Compliant with standards

AFS forms comply with international and national standards, such as the style guide for online forms 3.0 of the BLSG working group (AT), or essential eCH e-government standards (CH). 

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Platform-independent

AFS is based on JAVA technology on the server side

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Start, input, check, close

The use of AFS forms takes place in four steps - an entry page, pages for data entry, checking the data entered and completion with confirmation of the submission.

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Single (XML) source

Forms defined with AFS are stored centrally in an XML repository and are available for PCs, mobile devices and as print forms.

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Form layout & responsiveness

All form components can be customized via CSS parameters.

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Document generation

Every online form defined with AFS is immediately available as a PDF print form without any further effort

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Specialized & integrated

Modern software solutions are often a combination of specialized individual components.

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Product design in line with customer requirements

AFS is continuously developed according to customer requirements. New AFS versions are regularly made available as part of all-in maintenance.

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Excel import & export (offline data)

Each AFS form can be assigned a freely configurable Excel template. This makes it possible to export recorded form data to Excel, edit the data offline and load it back into the form. The Excel comment function is used for simple mapping of the form fields in the Excel template.

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Connection to backend systems

AFS forms can be filled with data from backend systems and application data entered in AFS can be written to backend systems.

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E-Payment

Enables payment directly as part of the application process

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Application interface for application data

Application data can also be submitted via web service

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Secure

Data protection, data security, traceability and the comprehensive support of national identification and signature technologies are essential prerequisites for the success of AFS.

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Identification

AFS forms can accept identification information from different national systems

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Change log

The use of a change log makes adjustments to the form traceable.

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Types of submission

There are various submission types available for AFS forms.

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Applicant signature

AFS supports the application signature with different country-specific technologies.

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Incoming signature

AFS confirms the successful receipt of the request with a server-side signature.

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Accessible

Online forms generated with AFS are accessible according to WCAG 2.1. in level AA.

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Multilingual

AFS forms are multilingual. The basic building blocks of forms are provided in four languages (German, English, French and Italian)

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Client-capable

AFS forms are multi-client capable and can be offered by several organizations in their own layout and with specific data

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Resilience

AFS supports clustering via databases.

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Backups of form collections

AFS enables automatic backups.

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User roles in the form design

The aforms designer has a group and user administration

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Logging in the form design

All user actions during form maintenance can be logged

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Form server synchronization

The aforms server can take over the form inventory of another form server during operation.

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Preview & Deployment

The forms can be called up immediately in the aforms designer and handed over for approval or live operation.

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Staging

AFS forms are configured once in the aforms designer for different operating environments.

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Session monitoring & logging

For operational support, a display of the active sessions of all form servers in an operating environment is provided.

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Statistics

AFS offers comprehensive statistics for analyzing the forms.

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More than 200,000 applications per month