On this page field options for the selected form are displayed.
To add fields to your form, click on the 'Edit form fields' icon (
) in the Command column. Click the icon (
) or the button 'Add field'.
General
- Field name is the value used to identify a form's field
- Required mark Checking the required mark option will only make the asterisk sign appear next to the field name informing user that this field needs to be filled in. In this case the user can potentially ignore the field leaving it blank though the form still can be submitted. In order to make certain field trully required, you'll also have to select the check rule in addition to checking the required mark. Note that the check rule option is only available for definite field types: Text, Password, Chechbox, Radio button, Select, Multiple select, Textarea, File upload (see Field type below)
- Page. If your form consists of several pages, you can select from a drop-down menu which page this field will be on. You can edit Page Options by clicking on the icon 
next to the page name (1:: by default). See the screenshot:
-Field type specifies the type of the field, which can be:
- Text is a common text field
- Password is meant for password entry (the value you enter in this field will be displayed in a form as an asterix string
- Checkbox is used to toggle one or several items in a form. All the values you enter for this field will be displayed in the form
- Radio button is the button that must have one selection chosen out of two or more choices.
- Select field displays all the values you indicate for this field, but allows only one value to be used at a time.
- Multiple select displays all the values you set for this field and allows multiple values to be used at a time.
- Textarea is a simple text box where the form users can input strings of characters, numbers or any other symbols.
- File upload field allows form users to upload files by means of the form
- Hidden allows to hide the field from the user's view
- HTML is used to create HTML values in the form
- Date is used to display dates
Default
- Default value is used as a value that will be present in the field by default
Field check
- Check rule specifies the rule to be used for this field. The possible values for this field are:
- Not empty means that the field must contain any value
- Numbers only allows only numbers in the field
- Letters only allows only letters in the field
- Email checks if the value in the field has an email format
- Email and not empty checks the email format and the field input data
- Chars interval specifies the length of input value for the field.
- Multi email and not empty. Once this check rule is selected, the field becomes required and the values entered in this field are checked for their format (it must be e-mail) . Users can
enter e-mail addresses in different formats: separated with dots, commas, semi commas, spaces, etc. If you select an e-mail template (see Field mail options below) for this field, the message will be sent to all the email addresses listed in the field. The field type is perfect for Recommend Us forms.
Export settings
- Name for export. Specify the field name that will be displayed in the database after the submissions export. This value must be entered only if you are going to export form submissions to an external database (see Export Form Submissions below)
Field mail options
- Email template allows you to select an e-mail template that will be sent to the form users. You can create different messages with any content in the Mail templates section (see Mail Templates below). Email template must be selected only for the fields where users are supposed to enter their email address.
Field's "Advanced" options
Field info
- Field name is the name of the field you edit
- Page title is the title of the page where the form is located
Layout
Here you can select the type of layout for the field. Move the arrow-like buttons to change the layout
HTML
- Field color specifies the color of the field
- Caption style specifies the style that will be used to display the field's caption (i.e. you can enter a CSS style here, like below:
- color: red; font-style: oblique; font-weight: bold; font-family:Tahoma;
- font: 25px Courier; text-decoration:underline;
- Control style specifies the style that will be used for input fields, for instance:
- background-color: #ee0000; font-size: 26px; font-weight: bold; font-family:Tahoma;
- width: 400px; height: 40px; width: 400px; height: 40px;
- Max length specifies the ultimate length of the field
- Size/Rows (depending on the selected field type) specifies the ultimate size or the ultimate number of rows for the field
Field's "Advanced" options for File Upload fields:
- Field color defines the color for the field
- Caption style is the style for the field name
- Control style is the style for the field input
- File extension. Specify the allowed file extensions. Separate extensions by commas (e.g. jpg,png,txt,doc,etc)
- Max file size defines the maximum allowed file size for the upload. Enter the values in Bytes (e.g. to allow the upload of files sized 1 MB only, you should enter 1000000 in the field).
