- Create Form
- View Submissions
- Request Resubmission
- Request Due Date Extension
- Submit Form
- Draft Form
- Manual Data Entry
- Upload Data
- Delete Form
The 'Draft Forms' functionality enables the Vizor Portal user to enter data into Forms. The Form will be made up of a number of sections which may be mandatory or optional depending on certain conditions such as type of company, e.g. only life insurance companies should complete Section C. Each Form will be subject to a number of validations to ensure that the quality of the data being submitted is of a high standard. The Form cannot be submitted until the Form has passed all these checks. The 'Draft Form' functionality allows the entire Form to be viewed in PDF for printing or saving. There is also an audit log of what occurred on the Form, e.g. If there are 2 Vizor Portal users, it will be possible to see the name of the user who last updated the Form. The data in the Form can be saved as 'In Draft' so that the form can be completed at a later stage. The forms can also be saved & validated, which will run all validation rules associated with that form. All applicable sections of a Form need to be validated in order to submit to the Authority. The user can also view or save the form in HTML, PDF or Excel format.
To create a new form, please do the following:
- Navigate to Forms and click Create Form button on Manage Forms page
- A screen is displayed displaying all the forms which can be created by the user.
- Select the required form and name it appropriately. If there are multiple languages available, you must enter a name for each language.
- Click Create to confirm the creation. If the selected form is already in the system awaiting editing by the company or pending approval by the Authority the form will not be allowed to be created.
The 'Form History' can also be viewed from this area which displays the versions of the form.
To view your View Submissions, please do the following:
- Navigate to Forms and click View Submissions button on Manage Forms page.
- All previously submitted forms are displayed.
- To view an audit trail of updates to the form, please click Revision number on the table.
- Or
- To view/save a PDF of the form, click the PDF icon in the same row with the form name.
- Or
- To view the form online click on the form name
- All sections of the form are displayed.
- Click on the section name you wish to view.
- Form section is displayed.
To request a resubmission from View Submissions page, please do the following:
- Navigate to Forms and click View Submissions button on Manage Forms page.
- All previously submitted forms are displayed.
- Click the Request Resubmission icon link related to the Form you wish to rectify in the same row with the form name.
- Details of the Request Resubmission are displayed and the user is requested to state 'Reasons for request'.
- Fill in the 'Reasons for request' field and click 'Send Request'.
- You will be asked to confirm your request.
- If you wish to cancel the request please click Cancel.
- Or
- If you wish to proceed with the request, please click Confirm.
- An acknowledgement of your request will be displayed on the screen.
- Navigate to Forms and click View Submissions button on Manage Forms page.
- All previously submitted forms are displayed.
- Click a form name that you want to request a resubmit.
- Click the 'Request Resubmission' icon link in the View Form page.
- Details of the Request Resubmission are displayed and the user is requested to state 'Reasons for request'.
- Fill in the 'Reasons for request' field and click 'Send Request'.
- You will be asked to confirm your request.
- If you wish to cancel the request please click Cancel.
- Or
- If you wish to proceed with the request, please click Confirm.
- An acknowledgement of your request will be displayed on the screen.
To request an Extension Due Date in the Draft Forms page:
- Navigate to Forms in the Vizor Portal main menu.
- You will be taken to the Manage Forms page, listing all available Forms for completion, including Forms where a due date extension request is available.
- Click the Request Form Due Date Extension icon link associated with the Form you wish to extend in the same row as the form name.
- Details of the Request Due Date Extension are displayed with a request to fill in the 'Request new due date' and 'Reasons for request', select 'Send Request'.
- You are required to confirm your request.
- If you wish to cancel the request select Cancel. Or
- If you wish to proceed with the request, select Confirm.
- An acknowledgement of your request will be displayed on the screen.
To request an Extension Due Date in the View Form page:
- Navigate to Forms in the Vizor Portal main menu.
- You will be taken to the Manage Forms page, listing all available Forms for completion, including Forms where a due date extension request is available.
- Click a form name that you wish to request due date extension.
- Click the Due Date Extension icon link in the View Form page.
- Details of the Request Due Date Extension are displayed and you are requested to fill in the 'Request new due date' and 'Reasons for request', and then click 'Send Request'.
- You will be asked to confirm your request.
- If you wish to cancel the request please click Cancel. Or
- If you wish to proceed with the request, please click Confirm.
- An acknowledgement of your request will be displayed on the screen.
Once a form is at a state of 'Validated' then it is ready to be submitted to the Authority. On submission, extra validation rules
that typically validate data across forms can be executed and these must be resolved before it can be submitted.
Once the form is successfully submitted, it is set to a state of 'Submitted' and moves from 'Draft Forms' into 'View Submissions'.
Forms with a state of 'Submitted' are then locked for editing and can only be viewed in 'View Submissions'.
The form will be reviewed by the relevant department in the Authority and they may either Approve, Reject or Decline the submission.
All communication relating to a form on Vizor Portal should reference the unique Reference Number which is displayed on the cover page of the printed,
submitted form as well as throughout the application.
Each section in a form must first be validated before a form can be submitted.
On submission, another layer of cross-section validation occurs and any rules associated with this will be executed. If there are any validation errors with the Form submission, these will be presented to the user in a new window whereby the rules can be viewed or printed. The Vizor Portal user will then have to go back to amend and re-validate the Form until it passes submission validation.
To submit a form to the Authority, please do the following:
- Ensure all mandatory sections in the form have a status of validated.
- Click on the 'Validate & Submit' icon link at the Actions section for the form.
- You may be asked to upload a signed version of the PDF for the Form. If required, you should first download the PDF of the valid form, attach digital signature(s), and upload.
- You will be asked to confirm your submission.
- If you wish to cancel the submission please click Cancel.
- Or
- If you wish to proceed with the submission, please click Confirm.
- Submission rules may be displayed on the screen by the system. A submission rule may either be an Error or a Warning. If it is an error the relevant form must be updated before the submission is accepted. A warning is different in that it warns the user of data that is unexpected and advises the user to review it but the submission can still be accepted.
- An acknowledgement of your submission will be displayed on the screen.
- The system updates the form status to Submitted.
- The system sends an automated acknowledgement email to the user who submitted the form.
Form sections have an associated status, which can be one of:
- No Data
- In Draft
- Validated
To complete a Draft Form, please do the following:
- On the main Vizor Portal menu, click on the Forms option.
- You will be taken to the Manage Forms page. And you will be able to see a screen listing all available Forms for completion, all Forms have a unique Reference Number which should be used in correspondence with the Authority.
- You can view the history of the form by clicking the 'Version' link next to its name
- Select a Form by clicking on the Form name. All the sections of the Form are displayed on the screen with their associated status.
- Select a section to enter data into by clicking on its name and the contents are then displayed on screen allowing you to enter the information required.
- Please enter the information into the form making sure you enter information into all the mandatory fields marked with a red asterisk. Some inputs only allow certain types of data to be entered (dates, letters, numbers etc) and you will be restricted to these types by the system.
- Once you have either partially or fully completed the form section, you have the option of saving the modifications for later review by clicking the 'Save Draft' button and the system will save the data.
- To validate the section, once all relevant information has been entered, please click the 'Validate & Save' button and if all the data is correct the form section status will be updated to Validated. If there are any issues or errors with the form then a window containing the Error information and the steps to address will be displayed.
- Click on the 'Upload Data' icon link at the Actions section for the form.
- Click on the 'download the definition file' link to get the schema definition (.xsd)
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You can also click on 'view XML specs' to see how the form fields should be represented in XML. Please note that
XML elements must follow these naming rules:
- Names cannot start with a number or punctuation character; numbers and punctuation characters will be replaced by their hex encoding, e.g. a field called '[ 1200 ]' would be represented in XML as <_x0031_200>
- Names cannot contain spaces; spaces will be replaced by hex encoding _x0020_, e.g. a field called [ Item 1 ] would be represented in XML as <Item_x020_1>
- You should now produce XML from your existing database/system or from an Excel->XML file (using the downloaded XSD).
- Next, you should validate that the XML file produced validates against the downloaded XSD.
- To upload the XML file, please click on the 'Browse' button and select the file to upload.
- For smaller Forms, any remaining errors will be displayed immediately on the screen. For larger Forms, the file will be stored for offline processing and any errors will be sent by email as soon as the file has been processed. No additional files can be uploaded while an existing file is awaiting processing.
- If there are no errors, the data in the XML file will be populated into the Form. For files processed offline, the Form may be submitted automatically if it is valid.
- If the XML file only contained some of the required data then you may need to manually enter the rest of the data in order to validate the Form.
- Click on the 'Upload Data' icon link at the Actions section for the form.
- To upload the Excel file, please click on the 'Browse' button and select the file to upload.
- For smaller Forms, a count of errors/warnings will be displayed immediately on the screen. And the user can click on the link to view the errors. For larger Forms, the file will be stored for offline processing and any errors will be sent by email as soon as the file has been processed. No additional files can be uploaded while an existing file is awaiting processing. Each error has a reference to the Excel cell that is invalid.
- If there are no errors, the data in the Excel file will be populated into the Form. For files processed offline, the Form may be submitted automatically if it is valid.
- If the Excel file only contained some of the required data then you may need to manually enter the rest of the data in order to validate the Form.
- If data files have been uploaded, you can view them via the ‘Upload History' icon link at the Actions section for the form.
- This page displays the list of files that have been uploaded with their current status which will be either 'In Progress' or 'Processed'
- If an 'Error' status appears it means the file has not been processed and you should contact the system administrator
To delete a form, please do the following:
- Navigate to Forms.
- You will be taken to the Manage Forms page. And you will be able to see a screen listing all available Forms for completion also these forms which can be deleted by the user.
- Delete the required form by clicking the Delete icon link associated with that form.
- Click Confirm to confirm the deletion, otherwise, click Cancel.