Tracking where your data and users are coming from has many benefits and can be easily implemented using the AutoValues feature in Caspio Bridge 6.5.
See How It Works:
Why Track User IP Addresses?
As mentioned in the video, capturing user IP addresses in the database is useful for tracking multiple submissions, preventing malicious activities, and auditing data or users.
Documenting the user IP addresses with each submission can pinpoint double entries when multiple submissions are made by the same user. This might be especially important if the app is for online sweepstakes, surveys, or polls.
In addition to Caspio’s built-in security features such as web user authentication and SSL protection, tracking user IP addresses can provide an extra level of awareness, allowing you to trace where all entries originated from. You can even take it a step further and deter malicious users from accessing your app by displaying a warning message explaining that their IP address is being tracked.
Auditing data or users by user IP is another convenient way to add extra functionality to your applications. For example, have you ever wondered if your competitors are accessing your information? If you know their IP range, you can easily identify them if they ever try to register through your apps.
Why Track Site URLs?
If your application is deployed on multiple websites, tracking the site URL will allow you to pinpoint exactly from which site the information was submitted. This would be highly useful if you are using affiliate or cost per action marketing. Knowing which affiliate generated the lead helps you track the success of that affiliate and award payments accordingly.
By tracking the URL, you can also capture parameters that are being passed from a page that links to the location of the hosted application. This can be helpful to track parameters from widely-distributed online advertisements or links.
Have a question about the AutoValues feature? Contact our support team at http://caspio.com/support.
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In today’s economy, more and more business are attracted to the cloud. It often reduces reliance on IT resources while offering increased scalability, 24/7 availability of information, and lower costs. Let’s use the legal industry as an example. Although information technology is not part of the core business, document management and operations would greatly benefit from being transferred online. Sharing documents through email is unsecure and difficult with large file sizes. Housing documents in the cloud would allow lawyers and paralegals to access the information at anytime, from anywhere. All documents for a case can be stored and organized in one place, making it easy for authorized associates to find, download, and add files. In addition to streamlining current business processes, law offices can create various applications to generate new clients or manage the inquiries of current ones. For added simplicity, firms can use ready-made lead generation and CRM applications (available by Caspio at http://apps.caspio.com/).
It is important to keep in mind that not all clouds are created equal. Reliability is a must for business applications. Security should also be carefully considered, especially when confidential information is being stored or shared internally. Lastly, it is important to make sure that documents can be painlessly retrieved from the cloud if necessary. Caspio offers SSL and Record Level Security, authorized user accounts, authentication, and password protection for all housed information. Service Level Agreements and in-house installation are also available.
The “Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart” technology, widely known as CAPTCHA, is a challenge-response test used in computing to verify that application responses are not computer generated. CAPTCHA is designed in a way that prevents automated programs or bots from interacting with web forms and applications meant for humans. A web form or application that contains CAPTCHA generates and evaluates a test that only a human can pass. CAPTCHA images commonly display distorted letters or numbers because current computer programs cannot read them.
CAPTCHAs can be applied for various security purposes including;
prevention of comment spam in blogs
protection of website registrations
protection of email addresses from spammers
prevention of skewed poll results
prevention of search engine bots from reading you website
protection from attacks on password systems
protection from email worms and spam
Manually coding a secure CAPTCHA program is difficult and time consuming. Caspio Bridge has a free, built-in feature that allows users to instantly apply CAPTCHA to any of their submission forms, search forms or authentication pages. The CAPTCHA is highly customizable with 5 difficulty settings, multiple options for length, and the ability to use only digits. To make the forms accessible to the visually impaired, there is also an option to enable audio CAPTCHA, which will sound out the letters or numbers.
Try it yourself:
Click the CAPTCHA image to refresh a new one or click the handicap icon to hear an audio version.
To apply CAPTCHA in Caspio Bridge, open the DataPage wizard to configure your form’s fields and click on the insert icon to select CAPTCHA.
CAPTCHA will be automatically added to your form and can be configured on the right. Like other DataPage Elements, it can be moved up or down in the form layout, depending on your preference. CAPTCHA values are not stored in a table so there is no need to crate a table field for them.
CAPTCHA is just one example of Caspio’s built-in security features. There are also multiple layers in the platform designed to ensure that data and applications are secured and protected. Open a free trial to add CAPTCHA to any app in minutes.
The Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) was tasked to build and deploy an online application that would allow state agencies to apply for grant funds. Based on time and budget constraints, Daniel Kurlowich, Systems Analyst at the CJCC, knew that building the application from scratch wasn’t an option, so he searched for a cloud solution that could securely capture and manage the grant application’s 200 data input fields.
After a short online demo, Kurlowich felt confident that Caspio’s platform would fit the bill. In fact, it took him only one day to design, integrate and launch the application system on CJCC’s website. The project was completed early and under-budget, with the first online registration coming in within 30 minutes of launch. Caspio’s step-by-step wizards also made it easy for the agency make real-time edits to the application once it was live. Read the full case study.
Caspio‘s cloud platform was the only workable solution that provided the level of speed, ease and security that Kurlowich was looking for. He summarizes, “I’ve worked in data all my life and I knew that Caspio could do the job. And it did.”
The U.S. Postal Service is onboard with Obama’s cloud computing initiative, recently signing an enterprise agreement with Caspio. USPS manages 34,000 retail locations and delivers to every address in the nation – but unlike other government agencies, it doesn’t rely on tax dollars to pay for operating expenses.
Now it’s Caspio’s turn to deliver. Our platform will undoubtedly help USPS reduce costs, while improving information processing time.
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be stored and organized in one place, making it easy for authorized associates to find, download, and add files. In addition to streamlining current business processes, law offices can create various applications to generate new clients or manage the inquiries of current ones. For added simplicity, firms can use ready-made lead generation and CRM applications (available by Caspio at 
The Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) was tasked to build and deploy an online application that would allow state agencies to apply for grant funds. Based on time and budget constraints, Daniel Kurlowich, Systems Analyst at the CJCC, knew that building the application from scratch wasn’t an option, so he searched for a cloud solution that could securely capture and manage the grant application’s 200 data input fields.
The U.S. Postal Service is onboard with Obama’s cloud computing initiative, recently signing an 
Now it’s Caspio’s turn to deliver. Our platform will undoubtedly help USPS reduce costs, while improving information processing time.
