Hi Mckenziegal,

We at iFormBuilder have long been saying converting paper forms to digital format is more of an art than science. Building an digital form is not the same as "scanning" your paper form. From our experience, paper form tend to involve a lot of free text entry while a digital form should gear more toward pick-lists to standardize data entries. When designing surveys and digital forms, we always recommend our clients to start with what data they want at the end rather than simply trying to copy the paper form. 

For that reason, we always support our clients in building their first few forms. Once you understand the major differnces between paper forms and digital forms, building them gets easier.

So to answer your question about training, we train our clients through examples. Our goal is to help our clients in building their first few forms and then be able to maintain them going fowrad.

Thanks.

Sze

Sane and Rabiu,

You bring out a fancinating topic. We at iFormBuilder are now deploying mobile servers, we call ThunderPlug, to the field. These servers are as small as a nomarl external harddrive and can connect locally to smart phones or iPodTouches. So now not only can we collect data offline, we can also share, update, report and analysis completely offline. The only requirement is electricity, which makes the off grid charging concept a fancinating idea. It turns a challenge into an oppoprtunity!

So how much power do these portable generate produce? How hard is it for a local household to set it up?

Thanks.

Sze