A form , of “formula”, indicates in the beginning a collection of ordered scientific formulas. The legislative meaning is that of a model of legal document, which is close to the direction running of form: a standard “act” being used as model, general.
Historical elements
The first forms were those published by the notaries and the chancelleries. Nowadays, the form often refers to a type of general administrative document, to very often fill by the user.
In religion
The forms are formulas of faith which one proposes to be received or signed. The most famous forms are that of 1653, by which Innocent X condemned five proposals of Jansénius, and that of 1665 by which Alexandre VII confirmed the precedent. The Janséniste S opposed sharpest résistance to it;: what brought long disorders.
In data processing
In data processing, a form is a space of seizure in the Interface user, being able to comprise several zones, or “fields”: one can there access text, notch boxes, carry out a choice in a list of preset terms, support on buttons, etc These zones of seizure ensure the Interactivité between the customer (for example, the navigator of the Net surfer) and the waiter (for example, the machine which lodges the pages Web on Internet).
The buttons of the forms make it possible to launch preset actions by the author of the pages. These actions are Scripts (Javascript, Perl, cgi…) who envoyent the data seized with the waiter. This last treats them and returns an answer to the user via the Web page.
The intelligent forms see their contents adapting to the information seized by their user of kind to contextualiser their interactions with the waiter. This way, only relevant information with the context of the exchange will be required of him.
These forms are dissociated thus very strongly from their paper equivalent by supporting the Interactivité with their user and this without inevitably having to respect a setting forms equivalent to a possible preexistent version paper.
Commercial products
ABBYY the automatic capture of data coming from formsJPublisher creation of intelligent forms.
Calame Software intelligent forms without development directed " bureautique"
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