Key components
The key components and how they relate to each other.
3.1.1 Forms
The key components and how they relate to each other.
On a high level, Forms delivers well defined "apps" with the soul purpose simplifying a process related to an "IAM-problem". Each app is called a Flow. A Flow have a set of basic properties. For example who may access, is it public, how do it consume authentication.
Flow consists of a number of Steps. Each Step aims to guide the end user through the process. A simple Step could just consists of read only data about a user or a group.
Every Step includes a number of Controls. A Control is some kind graphical entity used to let users read or write data. Just like a Flow or a Step a Control has a number of properties that will define it's behaviour.
By combining Flow, Step & Control small well-defined IAM apps can be built fast with instant added value.
When a user wants to do something in the UI, such as retrieve or write data to a data source or process data, a pipe can be used. A pipe consists of a number of valves that can retrieve, write or process data. Pipes and valves are something that is found in all Fortified ID products and are shared between the products, so if you have knowledge of this from one of our other products, it works the same in Forms.
