FAQs (EN)

34. How should I design forms for the CIB formserver?

Please create standard PDF forms with all available means, for example with the CIB pdf brewer Pro&Form. Finally, add a submit button containing the link to the CIB formserver and save it in the configured forms directory.

You can also use this PDF form directly to merge the data. This allows the user to make multiple changes to the data and send it again. To do this, copy the form to the configured templates directory.

To avoid changing the data afterwards, save the PDF form without the send button in the templates directory.

If you want to send the form by mail instead of downloading it from the server, the Send button must be provided with the absolute URL to the CIB formserver. The document then also requires an additional hidden input field named "formname", which contains the name of the form file in the preconfigured templates directory.