FormSpring is an easy to use form builder but sometimes you need some help. Here you will be able to find tips and tricks in building online forms that work for your organization. Whether it is the building a basic contact form or creating a complex order form you can find all the resources you need.
One question I often hear is, “How do I insert my tracking code, such as Google Analytics, into my form?” I did a blog post last year telling you how to embed basically anything into a form using a Section, but now we have Description Area fields as well, which can be even more useful for embedding things like videos, widgets, tracking codes, etc.
While we allow pre-population of form fields, using the JavaScript embed method while pre-populating fields is a bit inflexible by default. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could pre-populate fields in an embedded form via the query string (mimicking the behavior of non-embedded forms)? This has been a popular request recently, so I have written a simple, custom “JavaScript Embed” method that does just that:
A common request we get here at FormSpring is for a way to embed form data on another website for anyone to see. While we give you a Share URL that you can link to, embedding this URL doesn’t always work and it doesn’t give you the freedom to pick and choose which fields from your data you want to share with your site visitors. This is where one of our integrations may come in handy.
Today we have a guest blog post from Kenan L. Farrell, Attorney-at-Law on the legal aspects of electronic signatures.
FormSpring customers often ask about collecting electronic signatures via FormSpring’s web forms. Here are some examples of the types of questions customers are asking:
We give you a lot of options when it comes to using your FormSpring form, and while providing a lot of freedom, sometimes having so many options can get a bit confusing. If you’re wondering what URL Link, Embed and HTML mean on the Use page of your form, this blog post is for you.
Recently, we added a new feature to checkbox, radio button, and select list fields that allows you to make these fields unique. There are many practical uses for this.
For example, say you have 50 seats available for a charity dinner. You could make a checkbox field with all of the seat numbers on it, letting users purchase one or more seats (use a select list or radio button field if you want to limit them to one seat instead of letting them choose multiple seats). Each time the form is submitted, any seats selected will be removed from the list. This prevents the same seat from being reserved by two different users.
When creating event registration forms or contest and promotion forms you may need a way to limit the number of submissions you recieve. We have written about this before but it helps to get a refresher on some of our “hidden” features that sometimes aren’t always obvious when building your forms.
Recently I wrote a blog post on How to Add Field Variables to Confirmation & Notification E-mails. One thing I forgot to mention is that you can also add these variables to the subject line of those e-mails the same way.
It’s common for small work groups to need to collect data for projects. And most of the time, data needs to be collected and stored in a consistent manner so that it can be analyzed or included in another project or imported into another application. Data integrity is usually very important. For more than a decade, the default tool for this task has been the spreadsheet. And I am a big fan of the spreadsheet, don’t get me wrong. But there is a better way.
Support requests are always a great asset for us at FormSpring, they shed light on user problems but also give us an interesting look at how our form builder can be used outside of just an online form tool.
