OnBase Image Forms Designer

OnBase Image Forms Designer is available through the OnBase Unity Client and allows you to create digital forms from images of physical forms. OnBase Image Forms is especially useful in departments like Human Resources where there are regulatory or mandated forms and form types that need to be filled out digitally.

Speaker 1:
Hello, and thank you for joining me for the OnBase Image Form Demonstration. In order to access the OnBase Image Form Designer, you would need to log into the OnBase Unity Client. So, let’s go ahead and log into the OnBase Unity Client using the manager username and the password for the manager account. Once you log in, you should be taken to your home screen. For Designer, we’re going to go to File, Administration and Form Designer. From there, we can open an existing template, or we can create a new template. So today, we’re going to go ahead and create a new template. We have an option of creating a Unity Form or an Image Form, so we will select Image Form. We can filter by our document type group. So, I’m going to go ahead and select Human Resources with a document type of Wage Notification Form (image form).

And then I can go ahead and provide the template name. So, let’s maybe name it, just Wage Notification, and then we can go ahead and select Okay. You’ll notice we have just a blank screen here so the first thing we need to do is select our background image for our Image Form. So, we would go to the pencil over here on the left-hand side to find the image that we’ve already uploaded into our client. I’m going to select the pencil to get my options of images I want to use. I can scroll through the list of any images I already have, or I can type in a particular image if I remember what I called it. So, I’m going to look for the NY Pay Change.

There is a preview window on the right-hand side of the screen so that’s the form I want to use. I do have options at the tap to Zoom In, Zoom Out, Cancel Refresh. If I didn’t import a document prior to creating the image form, I could go ahead and do that now, or I can just select Flat, so that way I can start actually building this form. So, you’ll notice on this form, there are some fields for Name, Phone, things like that, so we can add text boxes to those. There are some check boxes, but of course Image Form does not understand that these are real check boxes that can be checked. There’s an area for signatures. So, let’s go ahead and start with our text box first. And we’re just going to do phone number because it’s easy. So, I’m going to drag my text box to the phone area.

I can make my box larger by using the mouse. I have all my design options still on the left-hand side, so I can rename my…sorry, one second. Let me click on that. There we go. I can rename my text box ID or my label. I would recommend doing both so that way, when you’re creating any reports or custom actions, you know exactly what fields you’re adjusting. I always also recommend making the first letter of each word capitalized because it’s just easier, especially in the ID box where you cannot use any spaces. Just think it makes a little bit easier to read, and then you can always remove the number at the end of the ID because that’s not necessarily something you need, but I definitely do recommend renaming the ID field to anything you’d like.

I particularly like to keep the control names of the text box and just add something in the beginning of it. For the mailing address, I can use a multiline text box because we know addresses can be pretty lengthy. There’s not a lot of room on this form, but we need users to be able to add multiple lines and maybe not just one line. So again, I moved my multiline text box into my employer information. I’m going to update the ID field. I can update the label field if I want. (silence)

So, let’s move on now to our check boxes on the form. Like I said, the Image Form does not know that these are check boxes today. So, let’s go ahead and add check boxes over the check box that’s already on the form. So, I’m going to add a check box to my Notice Given. We really probably want to tweak where these check boxes are at so that we don’t see a box over a box, but just for this purpose, we’re just going to kind of leave them where they’re at for right now.

So, we have two boxes for our Notice Given, and let’s go ahead and test drive what we’ve done so far. Oh, you’ll notice I can’t test drive because I get an error message. So, let’s go ahead and open that error message one more time. Sorry about that. It said that, “The form does not contain a submit button.” Let’s go ahead and add a Submit button. So, you’ll notice that the Submit button did not automatically populate on this image form because it didn’t know where to