Welcome to the Form Tools Wordpress Plugin documentation! The following pages explain
all the nitty-gritty details of the script, but for starters: here's a quick overview
of what this plugin does.
What this Plugin Does
The Form Tools Wordpress Plugin lets you view and manage your form submissions
through your Wordpress installation. For Wordpress users, this can be a much more
convenient way to manage your data: instead of having to log into two separate scripts
you can find all your information in one place.
This plugin includes a simple mechanism for mapping Wordpress accounts to Form Tools
accounts. Since Form Tools already provides a wide range of options for controlling the
permissions of individual users (e.g. controlling which forms and which form fields they
can view and edit), rather than provide duplicate functionality, the plugin lets you
map one or more Wordpress accounts to a Form Tools account - to get the same permissions
within Wordpress. This gives you tremendous control over who sees what and reduces
the amount of configuration time.
[Eventually, I will be expanding the functionality to let you embed Form Tools data and
stats directly into your Wordpress pages and posts].
What this Plugin Does NOT do
This plugin is NOT Form Tools: it just provides another way to manage your
form submissions. You will still need to have Form Tools installed on your server
and configured with your forms before you can use it.
The functionality offered by plugin is NOT exhaustive: it only provides Wordpress
users with a limited subset of all the Form Tools functionality, namely: viewing
forms and viewing and editing submissions. Adding and configuring forms and form Views
must still be handled through the Form Tools UI. The goal was to provide an alternative
UI for the most commonly used functionality, for day to day management of your form
data. If you're getting a lot of use out of the plugin and would like to see additional
functionality added, post in our forums.
