XTend, from Lagniappe Software, is a bolt-on application that lives inside of, and extends, your PeopleSoft application. XTend can be used to create limitless types of fluid forms and surveys for your organization. The configurable nature of this tool puts the power in the hands of the end-user, not the developer, which allows you to achieve the exact experience you are looking for. Also, fluid’s responsive design adapts to any device. Installation and deployment are a breeze. You can be up and running with XTend in a short period of time.
Rapidly Create Forms/Surveys
Creating reusable building blocks for your content is where the power of rapid design and deployment really takes shape. In today’s world, communication is sometimes better achieved with videos and images, combined with verbiage that suits your individual situation. In addition, you may wish to direct the end user to a more specific outcome.
As you design your form/survey, you can immediately test each new scenario in a fluid responsive page to ensure you are obtaining the desired look and feel.
Options to Meet Your Needs
Requests (or questions) combine the power of video, images, and free form text, along with survey style Likert Scales, to initiate almost any type of communication imaginable. Responses (or answers) offer the flexibility to be combined with reusable lists to generate a variety of single or multiple selection options. Options include dropdown list boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons and images. File attachments, free form text, prompt fields, dates, numeric response types, and multi-row grids are also available.
Likert Scale Responses can be created and combined with any type of Request to measure how someone may feel about something. They can also be used to attach quantitative value to qualitative data for statistical analysis.
Customized Experience
Forms/Surveys are created by linking Requests with Responses in the desired order. Simple designs will consist of a single question/answer combination. Other scenarios may group multiple combinations or require the use of conditional logic to drive the flow. Pre-populated data and field validation can also be used to create a customized user experience, all configurable without developer assistance.
Taking it a step further!
Downstream processing can be a key factor when a form/survey is submitted and/or approved. XTend provides a user-friendly configuration page to map form/survey data to initiate the following types of PeopleTools transactions: component interface, process scheduler process, SQL object, and application package/class. Multiple transactions, in sequential order, can be configured for a single form/survey.
If you need a hard copy or electronic version of the form/survey, the content can be converted to a PDF file with no additional work needed on your part.
Xtend can be configured as a delivered PeopleSoft Related Action, launching your form/survey in the context of the page transaction it was initiated from. As an example, launch a Grade Change Request form using related actions on the Self Service Grade Roster.
Forms/Surveys can easily be configured with multiple workflow options, including PeopleSoft’s Approval Workflow Engine (AWE), as well as Adobe Acrobat Sign for approvals outside your organization.
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