When using forms, having the ability to add lines to separate categories, static headers and text as well as the ability to add a signature field for mobile users would be great!
Also if there was a way to add a pdf export to the submit button to send completed forms via email to people that would be great.
I am in the process of moving some of our more complex forms from Formsite to Coda and the above are the only things that are missing that end up on my “hopeful in the future” list.
All this (aside from the signature) is very possible in Coda!
You can use rectangle() to create line dividers and image(), lineBreak() and other rich text formulas to create sections, etc
Here’s one of my forms with sections on mobile!
And here’s a quick video outlining some of the principles/best practices
Thanks Scott this is awesome. This will make the form much better.
@Terry_Stagg Did you ever sort out how to have the pdf export for completed forms?
I would love to have a pdf copy of the completed form emailed to me.
Thanks in advance!
Could this be achieved with an automation? The opt-in for having an email sent to the submitter could be a button or checkbox.
An automation triggered by adding a row through the form can check this checkbox to send an email or not.
I didn’t try this tho
i do hope more people upvote this.
while there are some workarounds with adding images and using rectangle, tbh, they don’t look great. you still a little header above your image and that grey box around that contains everything inside. i think just being able to add text (header and body instruction text) and a divider would make forms way more user friendly as we would be able to create smaller digestible sections
Yes please!
I mean, Coda is very powerful and forms could benefit a lot from this power.
Customization, buttons, and the best IMO: pre filled sections (with image, whatever) where you can just use an init value (just like new row value) but in a form.
Please, give some love to the forms!
