June has been mostly about behind the scenes work, but there are few things brewing at the Form Assembly that deserve a public announcement. So, here you go:

Coming up in July,

• Integration with third-party services, starting with Salesforce.com. This will allow you to turn your Form Assembly web form into an automated lead generation tool. This will roll out as a private beta first, so if you would like to try this feature, email me or drop a comment here.
• A Wordpress 2.0 widget, to easily add a web form to your Wordpress blog.
• New CSS stylesheets and a new layout option to display field hints as a contextual pop-up (a.k.a. tool-tip).
  

If you have any comments, feel free to post here or in the forums.

Thank you.

Technorati Tags: widget, form builder, salesforce

With a very simple setup, you can now use the email notification you receive to reply directly to the person who submitted the response.

First make sure that your form actually asks for an email address, and that this question has a validation of type ‘email’ (this can be done in the Form Builder).

Then, in the form properties page, in the ‘upon response’ section, set the reply-to option. The drop-down menu will list the form fields of type ‘email’. Choose the appropriate one and save.

That’s it. On your next email, you’ll be able to hit ‘reply’. The email used will be the one posted by the respondent (if you see ‘report @ formassembly . com’ instead, your setup is probably not right).

The server migration went well and everything should be running smoothly. There are a few minor issues that will addressed throughout the day, but should you run into any problems, please email us or post in the support forums.

Thank you.

In order to improve the reliability and quality of our service, we will be transferring the site to a new server this Saturday (june 10th) at 10PM EST (Sunday 3AM GMT).

• formassembly.com will be unavailable for about 30mn.
• Web forms hosted on the Form Assembly will not be available during that period.
• Forms hosted on your own site will continue to function. Response processing will not be interrupted.
• The Time-Tracker application will also be offline during the operation.

If you have any problems with the site after 11PM EST (4AM GMT), please email us.

Thank you for your understanding and continued support.

Cedric Savarese
The Form Assembly

I’ve just noticed that the Time-Tracker has been featured on Screeniac.com. The screencast is nicely done and thorough.

Screencast review is a great idea. There are so many new web apps these days, it’s nice to be able to sit back and watch the reviewer going through the main features of the application. It’s the perfect complement to sites like techcrunch.

One remark though, I’d like to see different file formats for the screencasts, or better, embedded flash video.