Caspio has released an update to its plugin for Microsoft Office, now supporting Microsoft Office 2010 64-bit. This update came as a result from requests by Caspio customers inside our Ideabox community. (If you are a Caspio user and haven’t joined the Ideabox site – we encourage you to do so. It is a [...]
Last week, we released Caspio Bridge 7.3 as a small feature release to offer conditional logic in web forms.
A new “Rules” tab now appears in the DataPage wizard when you create or edit a form in Caspio.
You’ve probably needed to create at least a few web forms as a crucial function of your website or application. But have you ever wondered how many visitors struggle to complete your forms – or simply give up?
Web form conversion optimization is not just for marketers. It’s something to ponder any time you use [...]
Time limits are surprisingly effective at motivating users to complete a web form. Adding a timeout script increases the sense of urgency and commitment to finish your form within the allowed time. A time limit also encourages candid first impressions or “off-the-cuff” opinions in surveys, polls, quizzes, and feedback forms.
Occasionally you may need to limit the maximum number of submissions in your web apps. Events, inventory management, promotions, and other apps with fixed resources often need to regulate availability. Using Caspio’s online database, you can easily limit submissions in your apps so you don’t ever have to monitor the number of [...]
Would you like to include default text on your web forms to instruct users? It’s pretty commonplace to see auto-clearing gray default text (sometimes called ghost text) on form input fields to help users complete information with minimal confusion or mistakes.
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Cloud Data Strategies – Think Big, Start Small, and Never Stop Improving
In an InfoWorld blog post today, David Linthicum outlined three steps to make towards a successful cloud database strategy. I think the advice is solid, and hints at the main gist of what I have been saying in recent blog posts around the transformative nature of the cloud for [...]