FormHoney, protected by METIS HALO
Design a form, share the link, collect the answers. Every answer is checked for profanity before it reaches you.
FormHoney checks: 1 credit per 1,000 scansFormHoney is a form design and data-capture platform. Forms are laid out on a real page with twenty-one control types, conditional rules and shared option lists, stored as JSON, and shared by an unguessable link. Answers come back as JSON you can export to CSV, Excel, Word or PDF, with analytics reports on top.
It is the ideal home for surveys, applications, registrations, feedback and training evaluations, which is exactly where the public writes free text, and exactly where profanity turns up.
- Form authors tick which fields to check. Long-text answers are the usual choice.
- When a respondent submits, each ticked answer is checked through FormHoney's own server, which holds the METIS HALO key. The key is never in the browser.
- Profane answers are refused with the offending fields highlighted, or cleaned automatically if the author prefers.
- The author's own wording, labels and help text are checked too, so nothing embarrassing ships in the form itself.
- Checked forms can carry a "Protected from profanity" mark so respondents know abuse will not get through.
FormHoney checks are metered as their own service at 1 credit per 1,000 scans. Each check FormHoney sends is tagged as a FormHoney scan, counted against the METIS HALO account whose key it uses, and charged when the counter completes a unit.
Enable or disable the FormHoney service on your account under My Account › Services, exactly like the Office add-ins. The price is set by the administrator under Engine & Pricing.
- Make sure the FormHoney service is enabled on your METIS HALO account (My Account › Services & Key Restrictions).
- In FormHoney, an administrator pastes the account's API key under Settings › Profanity checking and presses Test.
- Optionally lock the key to FormHoney's server address under Key Restrictions, so it works from nowhere else.
- Form authors tick Check for profanity on the fields they want covered.
Building something like this yourself?
FormHoney uses the same public API available to your own software. The API documentation shows the server-side pattern it follows, including the X-Scan-Context header that tells METIS HALO which product is scanning.