Overview - bcgov/common-hosted-form-service GitHub Wiki

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What is CHEFS?

The Common Hosted Form Service (CHEFS) is Web-based application for creating Web forms and managing the data you collect.

Features include:

• A user-friendly Form Designer interface
• Form Versioning
• Custom form components (for example a BC business name look-up)
• Extensive choice of configurable form fields
• Custom, Responsive form layouts
• Form design import/export
• Settings for:
  • Authentication and access to your published form.
  • Form administration Team Management
  • Role-based access to features
  • Email Notifications
• Form submission Export (CSV and JSON formats)
• Secure API for accessing your data from other systems
• Downloading your submissions using a PDF template

We are working on new features

Please see the project Product Roadmap for more details.

We hope other teams will want to fork our code base and contribute with new features. For more details of the technology stack used as well as instructions on how to deploy on OpenShift, please see the ReadMe pages.