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Thoughts and ideas on how to build tools, automate workflows and speed-up the workplace.
How to Build an Employee Complaint Form
Handling employee complaints is a delicate process. We’re faced with the dual challenges of gathering accurate information in a fair and transparent manner - while also securely handling potentially very sensitive data. A vast number of companies manage this using dated tools - like spreadsheets or even pen and paper. This approach fails on both fronts. Today, we’re checking out how custom web forms a more effective solution to this problem.
Ronan McQuillan
Feb 22, 2024
4 Methods for REST API Authentication
Understanding the different methods of API authentication is a core competence for any would-be developer, data professional, or anyone else who wants to connect to external tools, data sources, or other resources. Nowadays, APIs are fundamental to the way we build, integrate, and use all kinds of digital tools - whether this is building custom software from scratch - or simply connecting existing SaaS platforms to create streamlined workflows. So, you need to know how to use the different authentication methods that vendors could implement for their APIs.
Ronan McQuillan
Feb 21, 2024
Make work flow with Â鶹AV's new n8n integration
Unlock powerful new workflows with the new Â鶹AV n8n integration. This two-way integration enriches both platforms, offering a better approach for task automation in Â鶹AV and a new way to manage your Â鶹AV data in n8n. Automate workflows with the n8n Integration in Â鶹AV First up, let’s talk about bringing n8n into Â鶹AV. n8n is renowned for its powerful workflow automation capabilities, boasting an impressive array of 775 nodes spanning various applications and services.
Jamie Birss
Feb 21, 2024
How to Build an Expense Reimbursement Form
Handling employees’ expenses can be a huge headache. This doesn’t just create paperwork for colleagues on the ground. It also burdens finance teams with assessing submissions and processing payments. Today, we’re checking out how expense reimbursement forms can transform this experience. Specifically, we’ll see how Â鶹AV empowers teams to create advanced forms in a fraction of the time. By the end, we’ll have a fully functional, custom expenses form that works beautifully on all devices.
Ronan McQuillan
Feb 20, 2024
Top 7 Rapid Application Development Tools for 2025
Choosing the right rapid application development tools for your team is a tricky prospect. Most software procurement decisions come down to finding the most cost-effective way to perform a specific task. RAD is a little bit different. It’s not so much concerned with what you do, as how you do it. So, yes, RAD tools enable your development team to build software solutions, but more importantly, they allow them to do it quickly.
Ronan McQuillan
Feb 19, 2024
How to Send Form Data to an API in 4 Steps
Populating API requests is one of the most basic, universal use cases for web forms. However, building forms to do this manually can be a laborious, time-consuming process. It’s also beyond the skills of most non-developers. But there is a better way. Today, we’re checking how Â鶹AV can be used to send form data to APIs. Specifically, we’re going to see how we can create and store dynamic REST requests, along with custom UIs, to populate them in a matter of minutes.
Ronan McQuillan
Feb 19, 2024
How to Create Form Validation Rules
Form validation is essential to the accuracy, integrity, and consistency of our data. It’s also one of the key ways that we can enhance user experiences around data entry and management workflows. These enable our form UIs to check that submissions comply with any rules that we have as part of our data model - as well as giving feedback to users where submitted values aren’t acceptable. However, implementing this can present some pretty serious challenges.
Ronan McQuillan
Feb 15, 2024
How to Send Form Data to JSON: 4 Methods
Web forms are some of the most basic applications around. But the value we get from them really depends on what we can do with the data we gather. Most form builders are kind of limited in this regard - largely restricting us to their built-in databases. We can also go down the route of building fully custom forms. This provides greater flexibility, but it also requires a lot more from us in terms of time, effort, and expertise.
Ronan McQuillan
Feb 14, 2024