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Efficient Technology Inc. maintains a library of thousands of forms with constant updates and new additions. In addition, ETI is leading the way in terms of developing form automation standards for the entire industry, requiring ETI to be flexible and immediately responsive.

Each new form that is delivered to be built offers new opportunities for the Quik! Field Definition to change and grow in order to meet new demands and requirements.

When taking considering the constantly changing environment of forms into consideration along with and the breadth of the Quik! Field Definition (over 1.2 million fields as of Summer 2023), : it has become relatively impossible to build every form to perfection or to take advantage of each new field added to the definition. In fact, adding Adding a field to the definition takes careful planning in order to train the form builders, update Quik! software, update existing forms with the new fields, and roll out the changes to the industry.

Form Building Principles:

As a result of the complexity involved with forms automation, ETI Quik! employs the following principles when building forms:

  • The "Standard" Service Level is intended to make it easy to pre-fill standard form fields (not premium form fields)

  • The "Premium" Service Level is

    intended

    for

    the purpose of

    submitting data electronically from the form

    ,

    but not for pre-filling purposes.

    ETI uses
    • "User Defined Fields

      are intended to be used for the purpose of completing 100% mapping of forms that will be maintained from version to version
  • The "Signature" Service Level is intended to enable digital signatures on forms, which requires the forms to be built to the highest level of perfection in order to ensure signature and data accuracy.
    • " are an option the Quik! team can create for “customer-only” forms when Quik! does not find the field common enough to add to the Quik! Field definition.

  • ETI uses its best efforts to ensure forms adhere to the Quik! Form Standard and appropriate service

    level

    levels by putting each form through a rigorous process of pre-build, build, test, review, and final review by the form owner (optional).

  • ETI will fix form field errors and treat the fixes as a high priority.

  • The Quik! Field Definition allows for the ability to "bundle" or merge multiple Quik! Forms into a single document (form bundle), creating links between repetitive fields across the forms.

Note

Important notes:

  • ETI does not warrant that the bundling of forms will be perfect, and in rare cases, fields across multiple forms will result in conflicts and unexpected results.

  • The

...

  • leading cause of this problem is

...

  • the difference between text boxes and form checkboxes

...

  • . If a textbox on one form has a field name that is the same as a checkbox on another form and the two forms are bundled, Adobe will automatically treat both fields the same, as either a textbox or checkbox. ETI is working on an improved definition to fix this problem.

  • “Generic” field names - When a field on a form does not match a field defined in the Quik! Field Definition

...

  • : the field is given a random field name with a prefix name that reflects the form's naming convention (e.g., NFSVC2349.FieldName1).

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