The Edit Form tab lets you choose whether your Page includes a form and, if so, what fields it contains, how they’re arranged, and how the form behaves. Forms can be used to create new Entries and to edit/delete existing entries. You can also send emails to people confirming their submissions and allowing them to edit their submission later.

Options to control behavior of the form

You can decide whether users can create, edit and/or delete entries. You can also choose what happens after new entries are created.

If Create new entries is checked, and there is at least one field on the form, the form will always be visible and submitting the form will create a new entry unless the user is currently editing an existing entry.

Edit entries and Delete entries are only available if the Page includes a view, and the view is either a Table view or Calendar view.

If Edit entries is checked, an Edit link will appear next to each row in a table view; on a calendar view, each entry can be clicked to edit. Users will be able to edit data in all of the fields that you include in the form below, except those marked read-only.

If both Edit entries and Delete entries are checked, users can delete entries by first opening them for editing and then clicking Delete. (The Delete option has no effect if Edit is not also enabled.)

When users create entries, you can choose what should happen after each successful submission.

You can choose to have the system redirect users:

• back to the same page,
• to a thank you page,
• to another page within the same application, or
• to an external web page.

If you choose to embed your page in an <iframe>, you can tell the system to load the next page

• inside the frame,
• in the same window, but replacing the entire page, or
• in a new window.

After each submission, the system can send an email to an administrator, to the user or to both. Unless your page has an email field on it, the user must be logged in so that the system knows to whom it should send the email.

You can specify which administrator the email should be addressed from.

You can edit what the text in the email should say. (The contents of the submission will be appended to the email regardless.)

If you enable Include link to edit submitted entry, the email will include a special link that allows the user to retrieve the entry they created and edit it later.

A form consists of one or more sections. Add at least one section and then you can add fields to the form by dragging them from the list on the right into one of the sections on the left. To remove a field from the form, drag it from its section back to the list on the right.

You can also add text boxes to the form by dragging the box labeled TEXT to a section. Click inside the text box and type or paste text you want to appear. You can drag the text box as many times as you like — each time a new text box will be added to the form.

You can use the Markdown syntax to add formatting like bold and italic or to create headers, lists or links. (You can also type any HTML tags that can be produced through Markdown.) See Text formatting for more information.

You can use sections to control the layout: each section can have 1, 2 or 3 columns. The number of columns affects how wide they are and, correspondingly, how wide the fields are. Use the up and down arrow links to move a section higher or lower in the form. Removing a section will move all of its field back to the list on the right.

Note: if there are no fields on the form, the edit option will be disabled and users will be unable to create any new entries.