A Look at the New Formstack
Much like the kids on Christmas morning the Formstack offices are buzzing with delight. We have been tempting you the last two weeks with promises of upgrades and enhancements, and well, today is the day the shiny paper is unwrapped. We are proud to provide a recap of the new features and redesigns below.
Feel free to post your thoughts in the comments section, let us know what you like, can’t wait to use, want to see more of, etc. You can also fill out our quick feedback form here.
For our current customers – go crazy! For those of you who are looking to get started – why wait any longer? Create a free account and get going!
Completely Redesigned Administration Interface
- Thumbnail views of forms and templates so you can easily recognize what you’re working on
- Pop-up form and template controls so you can quickly access functionality
- Additional information about your forms on the main page like number of views and date created
- Sort your forms and templates by name, date created, and more
- Form and Template lists consolidated to central view for easier administration
Form Builder
- Drag and drop to add field into the middle of your form
- Drag and drop to rearrange fields
- Pop-up field controls to quickly access functionality
- New field duplication tool to quickly create multiple fields
Field Settings
- Redesigned dialog window used in adding and editing fields
- Improved skip/branching logic user interface
- New pre-select options for select lists, checkboxes and radio buttons
Form Settings
- Reorganized grouping of settings to make configuring your forms more intuitive
- Inline help text to explain advanced settings
- New setting for email notifications that tells Formstack to only send the link to data via email
Data Views
- Redesigned search interface
- Improved navigation controls
- Great new summary view to quickly visualize collected data
All New Template Builder
- Point-and-click template builder to configure styles
- Addition of dozens of new styles to help you easily tweak the look of your forms: easily upload header and footer images, change text, background and border colors, change fonts, control layout, and more
- Addition of CSS field to quickly add custom styles to your templates
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About the Author
Chris (@chris_c_lucas) is the director of business development. He manages many of Formstack's marketing efforts with a special interest in discovering how social and online marketing can help Formstack grow, while building strong relationships with external partners. With a background in PR, communications, and marketing, he has experience in working for a wide variety of industries including Sporting Goods Manufacturing, Bio/Pharma Marketing and High Tech PR. A Purdue graduate, Chris loves watching college sports, enjoys playing ice hockey, and most importantly can't wait till his son laces up his first pair of hockey skates! Follow him on Twitter (@chris_c_lucas) for more updates!
I would like to see a template for gathering credit card information. It would make life easier and one also for accepting contracts. I guess I will have to design my own but it will take me a while. Thanks though… great service!
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@Bonnie: Thanks! That’s a great idea about creating a set of pre-built forms. I’ll add that to our list of feature ideas.
Any chance of being able to edit the data captured? Our team currently has about 35 projects entered; however, I don’t see a way to update existing fields (e.g., responsible person, status, cost, etc.). If this option was available, we would eliminate the need to transcribe the projects, updating and uploading on a routine basis. We could give the responsible person permission to keep the project current, managing their own process. If I’m missing something, please post so I can implement immediately. Very nice product either way!
@Ron: We don’t have this functionality right now, but it’s something that’s high on our list of priorities right now. Stay tuned for more info. Glad to hear you like the product!
I’m looking for a form that will estimate costs for a printing company.
For example someone desiring to see what it wil cost to print 1000 10 page catalogues
on 120 glossy bond paper in full color or black & white. Can your form calculate these
types of costs automatically and then read updated cost online or sent to them in an e-mail.
@John: The forms do have the ability to calculate values, so you could set up a form where a customer selects the appropriate # of pages, paper options, etc. However, the forms are designed for you to collect information from your customers and send the data to you — they wouldn’t be able to email the customers automatically when prices change, etc. Does that help? I might have misunderstood your question so let me know if I’m off track.
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