Sharing Forms and Workflows

When you select  Share from the Action Menu to share your form, you will see a Share Form/Workflow page with share options at the right. 

Share Options for Forms

Share Options for Workflows

Share Option Details

Each option is discussed below. The form's Access Control dictates it's visibility regardless of share options; if you want it to be public, be sure to select Who can start the form? = Anyone (login not required).

Three options (Embedded Form/Workflow, Full Page/Pop Up and Just the iframe) are different ways to let users submit the form from your website without having to navigate elsewhere. These options have associated code on the left which can be cut and pasted into your website. Specific instructions for the code also are provided.

Each of the two Link options (Embedded Form/Workflow Link, Link (Email/Web page)) give you a link to the form/workflow. You can send the link in an email or publish it on your web page. 

• Embedded Form/Workflow enables you to embed a form that will be displayed in your website. Simply copy and paste the code into your web page where you want the form to appear. frevvo takes care of the rest. This option will render the form on your Web page in its entirety, without requiring users to click scroll bars when using the form. You cannot control the height nor the width that the form will use on your web page when embedded in this fashion. The length used by the form automatically resizes as repeats are added and sections expanded/collapsed or made visible/invisible. Refer to the Embedded Form/Workflows on Mobile Devices topic for the details regarding mobile devices. frevvo's Training Registration Form is a good example of this share option.
• Embedded Form/Workflow Link should be used to embed your form into a Portlet container. 
• Link (Email/Web Page) lets you add a link to your form on your Web page or simply email the link to the people whom you want to submit your form. This can also be used to provide access to a form over social media.
• Full Page/Pop Up lets users access the form in its own pop-up window so users can complete the form and return to your Web page when they are done. It is intended for desktop only. You will be prompted to save the code provided as an HTML page, then publish the page on your server. 
• Just the iframe is similar to the Embedded Form option but requires you to specify your form’s width and height. In fact the script tag is the same except it has different form URL parameters. For instance the Just the iframe option does not contain center=true, so the form will not be centered nor have a border. Using this option, the user may see scroll bars when they use your form if you do not specify a height long enough to contain the form when it is fully expanded. (Remember that your form can "grow" from its initial height if users select repeat items, expand sections that are initially collapsed, and so on.) The height and width are form properties but the height property generally is blank since the form sizes dynamically when you design it. There are a number of freeware tools (for example, MeasureIt) that you can use to measure your form’s height.
• Raw Form/Workflow Link lets you email a link to the form just as the Link (Email/Web Page) option does, but it is intended for filling out a form collaboratively and requires coordination between the parties filling out the form. The first person can fill out a portion of the form but must make sure '''not''' to submit it. He or she then can copy the URL (which will have been updated to collect the entered data) and mail this updated URL to the next collaborator. When this person accesses the URL, the form will be displayed with the values entered by the previous collaborator. The other difference between this option and the Link (Email/Web Page) option is that this option does not include an iframe border decoration.

Keep in mind that if you have shared your form via one of the link options and subsequently marked your form private, users will see an error message: "Access denied. Are you trying to access a private form/workflow?"

Self-referencing Link Inside the Form

There may be cases where you want to provide a link back to the form inside the form itself. One example might be if you want to give users the option to open a form in a different language. The user opens the form, chooses a language, and sees a link to reload the form in that language. In this case, it's important to use the Raw Form/Workflow Link with the parameter resize=true. The raw form link opens in the original iframe. If you attempt to use the Email/Webpage link, the form will open in an iframe inside the original iframe, and result in issues such as inability to scroll through the form.

Require Authentication Before Accessing Form

Usually your form/workflow's Access Control settings will determine its accessibility. If a form/workflow has the Who can Start the Form/Workflow? permission set to Authenticated Users (login required), for example, unauthenticated users will automatically be prompted to login to access it. However, there may be times you want to require a login before accessing a public form (Access Control for Who can Start the Form/Workflow set to Anyone (login not required). In that case, you can construct a share URL that uses the target-uri query parameter to send the user to the login page first. 

Cloud: https://app.frevvo.com:443/frevvo/web/login?target-uri=<form relative url>
In House: https://<your server host>:<port>/<frevvo home>/web/login?target-uri=<form relative url>

Replace the <form relative url> with your form's relative share url (just the part of the url starting with /frevvo/...).

Locate a Form or Workflow using the Share URL

frevvo resources, Projects, Forms, Workflows, portals, and more are referenced with opaque URLs. The use of opaque URLs eliminates security issues that may have been present with URLs that exposed a designer user's id. Opaque URLs replace the user id (…/user/user.id/…) that was used in the previous format with a universally unique identifier (uuid) …/u/user.uuid/… The uuid, is a randomly generated value that is stored in frevvo.

The Opaque URL feature provides:

1. URLs that do not include a user's id
2. Backward compatibility for URLs that contain a user's id - they will continue to work.
3. A reverse lookup function of the opaque URL that can be used to locate a form/workflow in a user's account for troubleshooting purposes. This capability is only be available to administrators, tenant administrators and users with the designer or publisher roles in the same tenant.

An example of the opaque URL for a frevvo portal named mycompany is shown below:

OLD PORTAL URL: http(s)://<server>:<port>/frevvo/web/tn/mycompany/user/designer/portal/mycompany 
NEW PORTAL URL: http(s)://<server:port>/frevvo/web/tn/mycompany/u/8aa27da6-4bef-427c-92e3-6ad8d58e506a/portal/mycompany

The opaque URL  can be used to determine the frevvo designer account where a form/workflow is located. This "lookup" feature resolves the uuid to a user's id and can be very helpful when troubleshooting. The "lookup" feature is only available to tenant admins, users with the designer/publisher role or the designer/owner of the form/workflow.

The "lookup" feature works with:

• Type URLs - URLs that include formtype or flowtype in the path - Form/Workflow Share URLs
• URLs that include the form or workflow id in the path
• Instance URLs - browse the Share URL and hit enter

In all cases, follow these steps:

1. Browse the opaque Share or instance URL
2. Remove everything in the URL after the formtype, flowtype, form, or workflow id path segments
3. Append/lookup to the end of the URL

Example 1:

A user receives an email that includes an opaque URL to a form/workflow as shown below. The user reports an issue with the form/workflow and requests that the designer investigate. The designer must locate the frevvo account where the form/workflow is located.

https://staging-app-72.frevvo.com:443/frevvo/web/tn/mycompany/u/8aa27da6-4bef-427c-92e3-6ad8d58e506a/app/_A_tLgAM1EeefQNjpl4JKNQ/formtype/_dyBXIKatEeaTw5HxBZKTQA/popupform

Paste the opaque URL into your browser. Remove popupform from the URL and replace it with lookup after the slash.

https://staging-app-72.frevvo.com:443/frevvo/web/tn/mycompany/u/8aa27da6-4bef-427c-92e3-6ad8d58e506a/app/_A_tLgAM1EeefQNjpl4JKNQ/formtype/_dyBXIKatEeaTw5HxBZKTQA/lookup

Press the Enter key. Log in to the tenant (determined by the tenant name after the /tn in the URL) as an admin, designer, or publisher user if presented with the login screen.

The following information about the form/workflow displays in the browser:

Tenant: mycompany
User: designer
Project: HR
Form: Invoice

Example 2:

A designer must make changes to a form/workflow in their company portal at the request of a co-worker. The requesting employee logs into the company portal, selects the form/workflow from the menu and copies the form/workflow instance URL from the browser.  An opaque URL such as the one shown below is emailed to the designer. The designer can't remember what user, app, form/workflow name that opaque url maps to and uses the lookup feature to find the form/workflow they need to fix/enhance.

https://app.frevvo.com/frevvo/web/tn/mycompany/u/8aa27da6-4bef-427c-92e3-6ad8d58e506a/portal/mycompany?mi=12&_formTz=America%2FNew_York&locale=en_US,eng_US,eng,en

Paste the opaque URL into your browser. Remove everything after the uuid. Replace it with lookup after the slash. Press the Enter key. Log in to the tenant (determined by the tenant name after the /tn in the URL) as an admin, designer or publisher user if presented with the login screen.

https://app.frevvo.com/frevvo/web/tn/mycompany/u/8aa27da6-4bef-427c-92e3-6ad8d58e506a/lookup

The uuid is converted to the user id of the designer who owns the portal.

https://app.frevvo.com/frevvo/web/tn/mycompany/user/designer

Log in to the tenant as the specified user and edit the portal menu to get the raw form/workflow link. Remove everything after the formtype, flowtype, value in the opaque Raw Form/Workflow link. In the example shown, you would remove all characters starting with the question mark .

https://app.frevvo.com/frevvo/web/tn/mycompany/u/8aa27da6-4bef-427c-92e3-6ad8d58e506a/app/_ngEekDxNEeWSMvnDVXXIRg/flowtype/_DxUxwZ8eEeScQa8_3O7FuQ?_method=post&embed=true

Add /lookup to get the project and form/workflow name.

https://app.frevvo.com/frevvo/web/tn/mycompany/u/8aa27da6-4bef-427c-92e3-6ad8d58e506a/app/_ngEekDxNEeWSMvnDVXXIRg/flowtype/_DxUxwZ8eEeScQa8_3O7FuQ/lookup

The workflow named Example 3 - PO for Sales Review is located in the tenant mycompany, in the designer user account, in the project Purchase Order Completed.

User: designer
Application: Purchase Order Completed
Workflow: Example 3 - PO for Sales Review

Browser Session Security

When you create a new form, by default, it has Access Control marked as Anyone (no login required), meaning anyone that is given the form's URL via any of the form's share choices has access to use and submit the form. You may change it to Designer/Owner Only, so that the only person who can use the form via any of the form's share choices is the person logged into this frevvo account. Once you are ready to let others use your form you can again mark the form as Anyone (no login required). 

It is important to note that while a logged-in user is completing a form, the data from their session URL is visible to any session from the same user@tenant. For example, the user may copy and paste the session URL into a new browser tab where they are still logged in, which would load with the form data. 

Embedding Forms in Your Website

frevvo can easily be added to your existing website. The option above in the Share section explains the code you need to copy into your web page and the different ways that the forms can be added to your site.

Embedded Forms and Safari Browser

Recent Safari updates have enhanced security features that prevent embedded content third-party sites from loading inside another domain. These features help prevent sites from monitoring users' browsing activity, but they also impact frevvo forms embedded on your website when accessed via Safari browsers (and any other browser with similar security features.) 

Embedding Multiple Forms in a Single Web Page

If your web server and frevvo form server are in the same domain (a likely scenario for On Premise customers), you are able to embed as many frevvo forms into each of your .html web pages as you wish. In order to do this, you must give each form a unique id. If you copy the Share code into the web page a second time, you must edit the id to make it different from the first. The id can be any string as long as it is unique. In this example, the first form id is "form1" and the second is "form2".

<script xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
 src="http://localhost:8082/frevvo/web/tn/mycompany/u/a700f434-969e-432a-9779-655f9fc30259/app/_QDidgGGwEeeZjNWktbplXA/formtype/_ZL1mkIhDEeeRWfMSX8Dr0Q/embed?id=form1&container=false&resize=true"
 type="text/javascript">
</script>

<script xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
src="http://localhost:8082/frevvo/web/tn/mycompany/u/a700f434-969e-432a-9779-655f9fc30259/app/_QDidgGGwEeeZjNWktbplXA/formtype/_ZL1mkIhDEeeRWfMSX8Dr0Q/embed?id=form2&container=false&resize=true"
type="text/javascript">
</script>

Currently frevvo does not support the ability to embed multiple frevvo forms in a single .html web page in a cross-domain configuration. This is the SaaS scenario, where the frevvo is hosted on app.frevvo.com and your website is on another domain. In this scenario, you currently can only embed a single form into each of your .html web pages.

For this version, embedding the task list successfully into an HTML page requires setting its width. See URL Parameters for more details. 

Embedded Forms and Workflows Viewed on Mobile Devices

By default, forms will display inside your web page in a frame. On mobile only, you can use the showLink URL parameter to display the form as a clickable link or thumbnail instead. The web master can customize the share link using the URL parameters described below.

• showLink - If false (default), show the form in a frame. If true, show it as a link, and the parameters listed below can be used to customize the link.
• linkId - id to be applied to the rendered anchor (<a>) tag. If none is supplied the id will be a generated unique id.
• linkClass - a portal delimited list of one or more classes to be applied to the rendered anchor (<a>) tag. This can be used by the third-party web page designer to style the tag/link.
• linkTitle - any title text to be applied to the rendered anchor (<a>) tag. This will be seen as a tooltip when hovering with the mouse. If not supplied, then the form name will be used.
• linkLabel - any text to be used as the link. If not supplied, then the form name will be used.
• linkTarget - if set then the form will be opened in a new tab/window. Can be any text and is the name of the target window.
• linkThumbnail - if set to 'true', then the form's thumbnail will be shown as the link on the web page.
• imgWidth - if linkThumbnail=true, then the width of the thumbnail image. Any CSS units are acceptable.
• imgHeight - if linkThumbnail=true, then the height of the thumbnail image. Any CSS units are acceptable.

If the iframe is not properly sized to the viewport on your mobile device, add the following meta tag between the <head> elements in the HTML.

<head>
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1">
</head>

Here is an example of HTML with the meta tag and embedded script:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1">
</head>
<body>

<div><p>Here is a div with some text. How long is this text? It should wrap around to the next line since it is a long enough line</p></div>

<script xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
                    src="http://<server>:<port>/frevvo/web/tn/frevvo.com/u/8aa27da6-4bef-427c-92e3-6ad8d58e506a/app/_bDd4YX76EduXFsA4l9RQeQ/formtype/_RwO0sMxjEeKp6swhthjzZQ/embed?container=false&amp;center=false&amp;resize=true&amp;border=false"
                    type="text/javascript">
</script>
</body>
</html>

Another option is to leave the form in the frame. If no URL parameter is specified, the form will automatically resize based on the device it is viewed on. If the web designer wants the form to always be full-width, they can specify _device=desktop in the share embed URL. The website designer might have a mobile website where tablet and phone users would access the forms where the share URL would leave off the  "_device=" parameter. www.frevvo.com is an example of forms embedded into a website that looks great on all devices.

Filling Out Forms and Workflows

As users fill out forms and workflows, the values entered into form fields are cached on the frevvo server until the form is submitted or until the user's session times out. Each time you navigate a browser to a form link you will see a new form/workflow instance. The fields on the new instance will be empty or may contain default values, values from your back-end system, or values set by a business rule. If you close your browser window/tab and open the form via the share URL again, you will again get a new form/workflow instance.

Invalid Form Notification for Users

frevvo provides a method to show validation errors at the time of submission. Click on the Continue or Finish button in a workflow that contains invalid data or required fields that are empty and the invalid controls are highlighted with a background color. Refer to this documentation for the details. 

Public forms/workflows with Save/Load or Digital Signatures

Anonymous users can access public forms that include the save/load feature or digital signatures. These features require a login. When the anonymous user clicks to save or sign, they will be prompted with the login screen.

Approval Workflows

Approval workflows are very easy to automate in frevvo. The requester fills out the original form (or set of forms) electronically and the workflow is then routed to the appropriate person or persons according to the desired business scenario. They’re notified with an email and can take action instantly using any device e.g. instant approval using a smartphone. E-signatures are collected and PDFs can be generated along the way. frevvo offers multiple integration options so you can save your data. 

Approving a Task

Reviewing a task for approval is very easy in frevvo using the Task List. The approver can use the Quick Approval or the Perform icons to display the approval step. Quick Approval displays a Quick View of the task without displaying the entire form. It allows the user whose responsibility it is to review the task (manager, supervisor, reviewer, etc.) to add a comment, approve or reject, sign, and pass it to the next user in the workflow. This works well on mobile devices. If the approver wants to see the entire form they can click the Details button.

 Follow these instructions to approve a task for the workflow that you downloaded:

1. Access the workflow from your portal. Log in to frevvo. 
2. Click the appropriate tab then select the workflow from the choices.
3. Run the workflow to a step that requires approval (manager, VP, Payroll.) 
4. Check the email for any user whose role is 'manager'. Click on the link in the email.
5. Log into frevvo as the user that can perform this step. 
6. Click the Important Items tab and then click on the Task List.
   1. For quick approval, click the Quick View icon. If the task does not have a  Quick View icon, click the  Perform icon. Notice the task is now locked so no one else can review it.
   2. Here is an example of Quick Approval for the Expense Statement workflow. If the approver wants to see the Expense Statement first, then click the Details button.
      
      
      
   3. Sign if required. If you clicked on the Quick View icon, click the Approve button. A "Please Wait" message flashes and the "Task successfully approved" message displays. Logout. 
7. If you clicked on the Perform icon, fill in the required fields then click the button on the screen to advance to the next step or complete the workflow. The label of the "Continue" button may differ as this is customizable by the workflow designer. The task disappears from the task list.
8. If the workflow has additional steps, check for a task notification email with a link to the task for a user who can perform that step, then log in if required. For example, the third step in the Expense Report workflow is performed by a user with the role of Finance and the final step is performed by a user with the role of CFO. 
9. Complete the remaining steps for the workflow. Logout. 

Rejecting a Task

A non-admin user can send a task back to a previous step by clicking the Reject button. The Reject button is configurable by the designer so all steps in the workflow may not have one. 

Let's consider an Expense Report workflow where the first step is performed by the employee, then it is routed to the employee's manager for approval/rejection. If approved, the workflow is then routed to the Payroll department for final processing. A Reject button has been configured for the Manager and Payroll steps and email notification is turned on for all participating users. Visit the Reject to Revise documentation to see an example rejection scenario.

Clicking the link in the Anonymous Email more than Once

The link in the email sent to an anonymous user can be clicked more than once in a screenflow consisting of an Anonymous Task step followed by multiple sequential anonymous steps. The anonymous user is brought back to the workflow at the current/latest anonymous step if the Save on Navigate feature is selected. 

For example, imagine a New Listing Agreement workflow where the Real Estate agent can elect to send an email to the seller (anonymous user) to collect the property details. In this scenario, the agent fills in steps 1 and 2 of the workflow supplying the Seller's email address. The Seller receives an email with a link to the first anonymous step (Seller Information). The Seller clicks on the email link, completes the Seller Information and Property Information steps, and then the workflow is routed back to the agent for review.

In the designer, the workflow would look like this: Notice the Seller and Property information steps represent a screenflow since they are both filled out by the same person (Seller).

Let's say the Seller completes the Seller Information step and then closes the browser. When the seller clicks on the link in the email again, the Seller will be directed to the Seller Information step.

If the Save on Navigate property is checked for this workflow then the anonymous user is brought back to the workflow at the current/latest anonymous step (Property Info) when they click the email link a second time.

Workflow Behavior for Consecutive Steps assigned to the Same User

The designer defines task boundaries by setting assignments (user, role, or email address), so each workflow step with an assignment is considered a new task. Any subsequent workflow steps without assignment are considered part of screenflow of the same task. Having an assignment to a workflow step strictly enforces the task boundary and it is applicable for the first step of workflow as well. 

If the next step is assigned to the same user as the current step, the pending message will include a link to perform that step. When the user clicks the link to continue the workflow execution, the workflow will continue like a screenflow but a new task will be created behind the scenes. This is an uncommon design but may occur in cases where the next step is dynamically assigned to a user by a template and that template resolves to the current user.

Invalid Task Assignment

For workflows created in v9.0.x and later, when a task that is routed to a templatized user, role, or email resolves to null or empty string, frevvo will assign the task to the "invalid-task-assignment" userId will notify workflow admin users (or the tenant admin user if no workflow admin is configured.) This will enable flow admin users to easily search misrouted tasks assigned to the "invalid-task-assignment" userId and re-assign to a valid user.

Navigating Between Steps

The Navigation toolbar provides the ability for a user to navigate back and forth between the steps of a workflow. This is helpful if the user needs to return to a previously competed step to make a correction or review the entered data. Editing of previously completed steps in a workflow is no longer possible if the previous step was completed by a different user than the current user. Previously completed steps are now rendered as read only unless it is a prior step for the same user, with no intervening steps belonging to another user. This feature is referred to as View mode.

Navigating through completed steps rendered in View mode using the the Continue button, skips completed steps such as HTTP Wait Notify  and anonymous Email. Configured document actions are not re-executed in View mode.

Let's consider the example of a new Employee On Boarding workflow, configured with the navigation toolbar. The first 4 steps in this workflow are referred to as a screenflow since they are all completed by the new employee. The screenflow in this example, consists of an Employee Information, W-4 Allowances, Education, Summary and Confirmation forms. New employee, Tom, realizes when he gets to the Confirmation step(4) that he needs to make a correction on the Allowances step (2).

Tom clicks the Allowance step in the navigation toolbar or the details button on the Summary step and is able to edit the data to make his correction. Tom clicks the Continue button to return to the confirmation step, signs the confirmation form then sends the workflow to his manager.

Before manager Jerry approves the workflow, he wants to review the previously completed steps to ensure all is in order. Jerry clicks on the Employee step of the navigation toolbar and is able to review the information but he will not be able to edit it.

Clicking the Continue button displays the subsequent tasks in View mode and eventually brings him back to the Manager Approval step where he can approve or reject the task.

Searching for Tasks

Click the  icon on the Task List to search for a form you have saved and want to continue, that you have submitted in the past, or to search for a workflow you have participated in. You can narrow your search to specific forms or workflows, a date range when you performed a task or only tasks that ended with errors. You can check one or more task states (Saved, Submitted, WAITING, PENDING, ABORTED) to include/exclude tasks from the search results.

Select a Form/Workflow from the dropdown and Filter Form/Workflow by Data table becomes visible and enabled. You can use this table to optionally select fields that are set up as Searchable Fields in your form/workflow by the designer as search criteria.

 Click here to see how to use fields in your form/workflow to search the Task List...

The Filter Form/Workflow by data section of the Search screen allows you to optionally setup additional search criteria using the Searchable Fields configured for the form/workflow. The Condition column provides the available conditions based on the type of field, and the Value column allows you to enter matching values. The filter logic can be edited using AND and OR, etc.

Condition Column

The Condition column choices depend on the data type of the selected field. The data types and their corresponding options are shown in the table.

Data Type(s)	Conditions Available in the Dropdown List
Date, Time, Date/Time	is equal to
	is not equal to
	is after
	is before
	is on or before
	is on or after
	is within last
	contains a value
	does not contain a value
Number, Money, Quantity	is equal to
	is not equal to
	is greater than
	is less than
	is greater than or equal to
	is less than or equal to
	contains a value
	does not contain a value
Text, TextArea, Email, DropDown, Radio, Checkbox	contains
	does not contain
	begins with
	ends with
	is equal to
	is not equal to
	contains a value
	does not contain a value
Boolean Checkbox	is equal to

Value Column

The values entered into the Value Column depend on the field type and also sometimes upon the condition chosen. The allowed values for Field Type(s) and conditions are listed in the table.

Field Type	Condition	Value Entry Field Type	Notes
Date	Any except 'is within last'	Date Picker
Time	Any except 'is within last'	Time Entry
DateTime	Any except 'is within last'	Date and Time Picker
Date, Time, DateTime	'is within last'	Special time duration entry field.	Enter a duration in Years:Months:Days:Hours:Minutes. Any field to the left may be omitted. For example, 2 days and 4 hours may be expressed as 0:0:2:4:0 or as 2:4:0.
Number, Money, Quantity		number field
Text, TextArea, Email, DropDown, Radio, Checkbox		Text field
Boolean Checkbox		drop down containing true and false options

For Example, if you select a Date field, the Date Picker is provided to help enter the value. If you select a Text field from your form/workflow, you will be prompted to "Enter text".

A Date, Time or Date/Time field with the "is within last" condition selected, requires a special time duration entry. The duration must be entered in this format: Years:Months:Days:Hours:Minutes. Fields to the left may be omitted. For example, if you were searching for tasks performed in the last 2 hours you can enter 02:00 or as 2:0. To search for tasks within the last 2 months and 12 days, enter 02:12:00:00. If you enter an invalid value, an error will display with instructions.

The value field will accept a maximum of 100 characters. If you enter more than 100 characters, you will see a warning message "The Value must be 100 characters or less".

Editing the Logical Expression

If you want to modify the logical expression, click the Edit button. The logic expression becomes editable.

The Logic Expression allows you to customize and combine the filter conditions using ANDs and ORs as well as parenthesis () to group terms of the expression.

• Each filter item (expression) is represented by a letter (A for the Date range or B for the State or a number that corresponds to the row of the sub-expression in the Other Filter Items grid).

• Combine the letters and numbers using parenthesis to group items as needed.

• Build the logic of the overall predicate expression using AND and OR as appropriate.

• Click save when done to save the expression. Please correct any indicated parse errors in order to save.

Searches are initialized with the data entered as part of the previous search performed in the current web session. The one exception to that is the Filter Form/Workflow by data table which will always start out empty.

The Reset button clears all filter fields with the exception of Submission Status which is reset to all checkboxes checked.

Task List Search Example

The image shows an example of a Task search screen and the results displayed. Manager Jerry is searching for:

• Tasks in all submission states for Simple PO Workflows for companies named Alpha or Bravo.

• There is a field in the Simple PO Workflow named ClientName that has been set up as a Searchable field.

• The Purchase Order Workflow is selected from the Form/Workflow search box (type in a keyword, then select from matching options).

• The field named ClientName is selected from the Field dropdown.

• The condition for the ClientName field is contains.

• A value of Alpha is entered in the Value column on the first line.

• Jerry clicks the Add icon and adds another line where the value of the ClientName field is Bravo.

• Jerry clicks the Edit button and changes the logical expression from 1 AND 2 to 1 OR 2 and clicks Save.

• He can also select the Start and End Dates and verifies that all the submission status checkboxes are checked

• He clicks Submit.

The results show a Simple PO Workflow for each company currently in a pending state. Checking the Audit Trail reveals that the task is on his Task List and is locked by him.

 

Tenant Admins and users with workflow admin permission are able to search for tasks that were performed by other users. One very common function is to search for tasks that are locked by a particular user so that the workflow admin can modify them and reassign them to another user or role. For example, if a person goes on vacation, the workflow admin may need to move a saved or pending form or workflow to another user. 

If no matching tasks are found as a result of your search, you will see this message:

View My Task

Users logged into frevvo are able to view workflow steps that they performed by clicking the View My Task icon in the Audit Trail. When you are viewing your task, you may notice the read-only view watermark. This is to remind you that you can view the information but can not make changes to it. You will not see this icon for rejected tasks, tasks that have been reset/reassigned/aborted by a tenant or workflow admin, or tasks that have been saved to your Task List.

Additionally, users who can view the task (participant, workflow admin or tenant admin) and have View Submission or Edit Submission permissions will see the  View icon for all tasks and may click it for the same read-only view of the workflow.

Saving forms/workflows to complete at a later time

Users may not have all the information required to complete a form/workflow in a single session. frevvo offers a Save/Load feature that adds a Save button to the bottom of the step. Users can partially complete a workflow step, including leaving required fields blank and even having invalid data in form fields, then click Save. The partially completed step is saved to the user's Task List. Later the user can re-open the step either in the same browser or a different browser or even from a different computer, and reload the partially completed step and continue working on it. You can save the workflow step as many times as you like. Clicking the  Saved Tasks icon displays all tasks partially completed by the user. Each time the Save button is clicked is tracked by creating entries in the Audit Trail. Saved forms are not the same as submitted forms. Saved forms do not appear in the Submissions Repository. Saved forms can contain invalid data and also contain required fields with no values yet entered. When such a form is re-loaded the missing and invalid values are again flagged as such by frevvo. And the form cannot be submitted (the submit button will be grey) until corrections are made to those fields. 

Follow these steps to Save a form:

1. Login to your frevvo portal as f_tom.
2. Select a form/workflow from the tab you created. Fill in some parts of the form/workflow but do not complete it. Click the Save button. The "Save Successful" message will display.
3. Click the  icon to display your Saved forms.
4. Click the Perform icon. Add some more information but do not complete it. Click the Save button. The "Save Successful" message will display.
5. Save the form a third time then complete the form/workflow.
   
   

Sending Emails in frevvo

frevvo offers the workflow designer many ways to send emails from workflows. You can:

• Configure Task Notification emails - users receive an email informing them that there is a task on their Task List that requires their attention.
• Send an email when a workflow is completed. This email is configured through the Doc Action wizard and can be customized.
• Send an email when one of the steps in the middle of the workflow is executed. This email is configured through the Activity Doc action wizard and can be customized.
• An email is sent to a user when a task is rejected. This is an automatic function of the rejection feature and the email cannot be customized at this time.
• Escalation emails for tasks that must be completed before a deadline. Designers configure the users that receive reminder emails and an email that is sent when the deadline expires.
• Route a workflow to someone who does not have a frevvo login (anonymous user.) Refer to the Workflow Tutorial for step-by-step instructions to implement this feature for a Purchase Order workflow.