This guide takes you through the process of designing, deploying and using your first simple Live Forms form and workflow. You'll quickly see how easy it is to create forms and flow with Live Forms. To use this guide, follow the steps below starting with Logging In. Each step below contains links to more detailed information.
If you'd rather jump directly into more detailed documentation describing how to design, deploy and use Live Forms™ use the navigation links to the right.
On this page:
Evaluating Live Forms
It's very easy to get started with an evaluation copy of Live Forms. You can subscribe to a free 30 day trial account of Live Forms OnlineClick or download and install Live Forms In-house. See Evaluating Live Forms for help starting your trail evalutation.
Video and Step-by-Step Tutorials
For help getting started creating forms and work flows, watch and follow our Tutorials.
Logging In
What You See when you are logged In
Create an Application
Upon successful login, you will see a page labeled “Applications”. Live Forms forms and workflows are organized into Applications. Applications contain one or more forms and workflows depending on your needs. Applications also contain other projects elements such as form submissions, tasks and schemas. Before you create your first form or workflow you will need to create an application.
Click the 
icon to create your first application. It is given a randomly generated name. You can add additional applications here or delete the ones you no longer need by clicking the 
icon next to your application’s name.
First, rename your application to something more meaningful by clicking on the properties 
icon below your application. Give your application a new name and a meaningful description so that when you see it in your application list you’ll be able to quickly tell what it’s about.
The properties page also enables you to set your application’s theme and base URLs. For this simple example, use the default theme ''Clear''. And leave the base URLs empty.
Getting Started with Forms
Click Getting Started with Forms to walk through the steps involved in creating a simple form. Also see the Designing Forms and Using Forms and Flows topics for more detailed instructions.
Getting Started with Flows
Click Getting Started with Flows to walk through the steps involved in creating multi-page forms and workflows that route your form through an approval process collecting digital signatures along the way. Also see Designing Flows and Using Forms and Flows topics for more detailed instructions.
Themes
The Themes tab enables you to customize the style of your forms & workflows so that they fit into the look & feel of an existing web application.
Most customization can be accomplished using the Form Designer and using one of Live Forms's build-in themes like Clear or Professional Blue. See the Form Designer's Form Style Properties and the Control Style Properties. But when more extensive customizations are required, you can download one of Live Forms's themes and modify it to suit your requirements. See the Customizing Themes for details.Form Style Properties and the Control Style Properties. But when more extensive customizations are required, you can download one of Live Forms's themes and modify it to suit your requirements. See the Themes for details.
Integration
Eventually you will want to integate your new Live Forms forms and flows into your existing web application or with other products such as a Database, BPM product, SOA, Web Services. Because Live Forms is XML compliant and schema aware this is a straight forward task. See Integration[ for detailsI.