Let me start by saying that this tutorial is written by someone with minimal coding skills. Fortunately for me there is Mambo and Facile Forms. These two used in combination open the world of custom design to the coding impaired. It is my hope that writing from this perspective will help others jump in and try their own hand at Package design for FacileForms. If you have not looked at the FirstForm flash movie that Peter put together, I would highly recomend you take a peek as a precursor to working through this tutorial. It will familiarize you with many of the steps we are going to use here. It can be found in the downloads section or at the FacileForms section on Mamboforge.

MamboForge Download
FacileForms Download Site
I was driven to this solution because I could not find a php script that would do an assessment the way I needed it done. There are lots of scripts out there but they just did not suite my needs. The example that we will go through is a very simple application. But you can modify it as you need.

• Mambo 4.5.1 installed.
• FacileForms 1.1.2 installed
• Assessment Package, download at www.facileforms.biz

Task; Create an assessment application that meets the following criteria.

• Easy for others to customize

• Use multiple choice questions that can have weighted answers
  
• Use multiple pages to allow for expansion
  
• Allow for flexible scoring.
  
• Allow for accuracy and improvement feed back.
  

There are two ways that you can do the tutorial. You can install the existing package that I have already completed and follow along, or you can create your own assessment application as we go through the tutorial.

Lets get started........