How to make things a great deal easier when filling in online web forms.

All of us have filled in online web forms time and again when surfing the Web. This can include various forms – those required to create a new mailbox, to order and purchase items online via e-shops, or to perform any other activity. I think you already noticed that on the Internet places where form-filling is required are plenty. You have to specify your username and password to access a secure resource, you have to provide some personal data to login or register, or when subscribing to a newsletter. Examples are numerous. In all these cases we actually deal with the so-called web forms, which serve as a bridge between your machine and the server that receives the submitted data.

Have you ever pondered that the information you provide is more often than not essentially the same – that includes your first, last and middle names, sex, e-mail, password, etc. It seems inefficient to input the same stuff every time when you have the power of personal computer in terms of storing and managing data at your disposal. However, you definitely need an additional tool – a software program that will help you automate and optimize the task of filling in web forms online and will spare you the trouble of performing repetitive operations.

Indeed, it’s very convenient when the already entered information is not lost after you finish working with an online form, but stored for further form-filling and reuse. In addition, when accessing a web form that you already once filled, you wouldn’t want to spend your time on going through this procedure again. And this wish is only natural.

Today there is a variety of software programs that seamlessly integrate into most of the popular browsers and are capable of automating your work with online web forms in many important respects. One of such programs is subject to discussion in this review.

INetFormFiller is one of the latest innovative applications in this field and is interesting for two chief reasons. One the one hand, it supports most of the characteristic features of the software of this kind; on the other one – it does incorporate a number of ground-breaking functionality enhancements that can make your work on the Internet a great deal more efficient.

What’s so good about iNetFormFiller?

After you install iNetFormFiller, you’ll see a new toolbar in your browser that lets you easily access all the tools you need. By utilizing these tools you can streamline your form-filling activities significantly.

Preparing for the job.

Using iNetFormFiller we can prepare all the data necessary to automatically fill in a web form later on. This includes specifying your first and last name, date of birth, field of occupation, country, some information concerning the organization you work for and its products and or services. In other words, all the information you think will come in handy later, when we get down to the actual task of filling a form online. The entirety of this miscellaneous data is called a profile. With iNetFormFiller you can create several profiles and protect them with a password. Profiles can contain similar information, or can be entirely different. The multiple profiles philosophy lets you operate with both a number of versions of similar data and logically distinguish miscellaneous information to avoid confusion.

Note, that when actually filling an web form online iNetFormFiller will always use the data taken from the default profile.

The availability of the previously entered data allows you to greatly save your precious time on the Internet, since you won’t need to desperately type in loads of required information and worry about possible data loss which is common online.

Filling in unknown forms.

So, once a profile is complete, we can go ahead and try the capabilities of iNetFormFiller in real time on the Web. Say, you soon encounter the web page you need with some registration form on it. If the program is configured to fill in web forms automatically (which is the default configuration) – you will see that some of the registration fields in this form are already filled in with the familiar values. For instance, the First Name and Last Name fields will contain your personal data. This means, the application automatically analyses the registration form and determines which fields correspond to the data stored in your active profile.

However, it’s likely that the form will not be completely filled. In that case, you can always complete it manually and save it. The data you enter will be stored together with this web form and next time you visit the page, the web form on it will be completely ready for submission. Additionally, you can always modify the web form with your personal data any time, even when offline. This feature is usually present in most popular form-filling software programs. However, iNetFormFiller, as distinct from other similar software will always store your web forms’ look and feel (see screenshot) – in other words, your saved web forms will look exactly the way they do online, which simplifies your work a lot. Besides, after you’ve finished your work online, you can browse through al the web forms you dealt with during, say, the last session and modify them offline as though they were real forms on the Net.

Familiar forms filled on-the-fly.

When revisiting a web page, iNetFormFiller allows not only auto filling the familiar forms, but also submitting them automatically. For instance, is we find ourselves at a web form we already once filled in and the program is configured to auto submit the data, the given web form will appear completely filled in and will be submitted instantly.

On the web we often have to deal with not just a single web form, but rather with a sequence of them. And the next web form is usually accessible only when the first one has been submitted. This means the process of filling in a specific form is includes several stages. In this case iNetFormFiller can really become an excellent time-saver, letting you avoid many and many routine operations. Just think about it. Once all the required forms are completed, the next time you need t perform the same task, all you’ll have to do is set the necessary profile as default and load the necessary web page. It’s as simple as that. All the registration work will be done by iNetFormFiller, who will automatically walk through all the stages necessary.

Sometimes, however, the registration process can be complicated, since at one of the intermediate stages you’re required to click some hyperlink (say, to select some subcategory from the list of available categories). And the requirement is, you cannot click it until you successfully filled in the previous form. For instance, many resources will not allow you to access the web form to fill in unless you authenticate (that is provide your username and password). Only then is it possible to access the available subsections of the resource where other forms it fill become available.

None of the software programs I know of are capable of overcoming an obstacle like this. A typical software form-filler will just fill in the first web form, which includes the authentication information and then halt, since it doesn’t detect any other forms to fill. iNetFormFiller can address this problem by delivering the award-winning ‘record navigation feature’. In our case you only need to enable clicks recording from the start – and apart from saving the web forms data, iNetFormFiller will additionally ‘memorize’ all the hyperlinks you click on to reproduce the whole process automatically later on.

The second problem with other software of that kind is that it doesn’t correctly process web pages with more than one online form. They basically fail to decide, which form to process and just do nothing. iNetFormFiller enables you to easily specify, which one of the available web forms should be used by default thus addressing this issue.

Additionally, iNetFormFiller allows filling in the same web forms with different data sets and can store them under different names. It is also possible to specify, which filling version to use by default for every individual profile. So whenever you encounter the given form, the program will utilize the default version we previously specified for the given profile.

Thanks to the above-mentioned features the registration process with iNetFormFiller can become truly automatic. You only have to go through the whole thing once, and next time the procedure becomes a piece of cake, even if you are using completely new data.

Manual binding.

When attempting to fill in an unknown web form, iNetFormFiller, similarly to most other popular form-fillers, will try to automatically find an appropriate field from the currently active profile and use the corresponding values. However, such an intellectual job can sometimes lead to errors, since the program can’t always correctly ‘guess’ which exactly input data is expected for this or that field. Such ‘unclear’ fields will be usually left unfilled, and the user will have to complete them manually. Things can be still worse, when the fields are not detected properly and the data is taken from other, formally similar profile fields (for instance, the program jumbles ‘company homepage url’ with ‘my homepage’). In such situation the user has to first delete the wrong values and then manually input the right ones. When such a form is filled in for multiple profiles, the amount of time wasted on fixing wrong data is multiplied by the number of the profiles involved.

That’s exactly why iNetFormFiller provides another unique feature -- the ability to manually bind a field in a web form to a corresponding field in a specific profile. By utilizing this feature you can exactly specify what profile field should be used to fill in a given field in a web form.

Let’s assume, you need to sell an old car and regularly submit advertisements via an online service of a popular online newspaper. The process of submitting one such ad can be real tiresome and time-consuming. You first need to access the newspaper’s website, enter your personal data (that includes your name and address), then select the appropriate category for adverting (cars in our case), and the appropriate subcategory (selling) etc.

At the screenshot below, iNetFormFiller found a number of familiar fields like ‘personal cell phone’ and ‘e-mail address’. These are automatically filled in. some of the fields in the web form appear unknown – such as ‘Heading‘ and ‘Advertisement text’. These fields should be manually bound to the fields called ‘Short description’ and ‘Long description’ respectively, in the ‘My Old Car’ profile. In this case, the required field values will be taken from this profile. When changing the default profile (say, you decided to additionally sell your garage and created a profile called ‘Garage’) the corresponding information for these fields will also change.

In this way, all the procedure of submitting a new advertisement using iNetFormFiller will be reduced to setting the necessary profile as active and loading the necessary web page. All the rest – including form-filling, category selection and results submission – will be performed automatically by the software.

Manual binding, clicks recording, saving web forms to a convenient format and other features of iNetFormFiller make it truly stand out compared to other software performing similar functions. Thanks to these innovative capabilities iNetFormFiller can be called the only 100% automating tool in its field, since it’s capable of automatically performing the process of filling in web forms and doing complex registrations from A to Z while requiring little or no user guidance. iNetFormFiller can make an excellent assistant for anyone who decides to streamline working with information on the Internet. For those who for whatever reason have to fill in numerous web forms and perform registrations online iNetFormFiller can be an easy and powerful everyday tool.

More information about iNetFormFiller can be obtained at the official site at http://www.inetformfiller.com