Form builder

This is where you put a form together without coding: add fields, arrange them and decide how each one behaves. The preview on the right shows the form as whoever fills it will see it.

How to use it

• Add a field: pick its type in the palette above, or use + Add field at the end of the list to search for it by name. If you're not sure which to use, each field type has its page in the menu.
• Change the order: drag the field up or down.
• Put it in a container: drag it into a group, a section, a row, a tab, a grid or a dialog, or take it out.
• Set it up: click the field and change its label, whether it's required and the rest in the properties panel.
• Remove it: with Remove, beside the field.
• Form title: if you don't give it one, it uses the page's name.

This is a real builder: try it below. Nothing is saved here, so reloading the page starts over.

Fields the entity already has

A form saves records of an entity, and several forms can use the same entity. The Entity tab of the palette shows the fields the entity already has and this form doesn't yet. Adding one, records keep what they already had in that field. If another form shows it too, its properties say so: what you change there changes on all of them.

Each field's name

Besides its label, each field has a Name: it's how Selfform keeps it and how formulas and conditions call it. It's made from the label on its own, with no spaces (Unit price becomes unitPrice), and gets a number if it's taken. You can type it yourself, starting with a letter.

Once you save the page the name stays put, because records keep their data under it. Changing the label later only changes what's shown.

Versions

Each time you save changes to a form a version is kept, with the date and who saved it. The Versions button lists them newest first, with what changed in each: fields added, removed or renamed, required or options.

If a record was entered with an earlier version, it says so above the form and lets you see it as it was then. Fields no longer there still show in its history.

Kiosk mode

To enter records from a fixed tablet, like at a workstation, the Kiosk mode link opens the form on its own, without the menu. Each time it's saved it shows the record was entered and, on Add another or after a few seconds, it's empty again for the next one.

Full screen hides the browser's bar too, and Leave kiosk mode goes back to the regular form. Only whoever may add records sees it, and each record is entered under the account that opened it.

Try it