New Field Types
We just released a new version of our form builder, and are happy to announce seven new field types that should greatly enhance the ease of collecting and validating data online.
Name, Address and Phone Number Fields
We now have the ability to create fields specifically to collect name, address and phone numbers. The best part is that you can now ensure that addresses and phone numbers are formatted in a uniform way, and that users filling out your form don’t accidentally omit a digit from a phone number or zip code.
We’ve also included validation and formatting rules for some of our friends outside of the United States – you can create address and phone fields with formatting specific to Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Matrix Field
The matrix field was probably our most frequently requested feature. This field will let you setup Likert scales like you see in the screenshot above, or ranking questions (e.g. “Rank the following movies on a scale of 1-5″), both of which will be especially handy for quickly building online surveys or feedback forms.
Credit Card Field
The new credit card field will be helpful on order forms to validate credit card numbers before submission, helping ensure that users don’t mistype numbers. We have validation rules built in for Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Diners Club and JCB cards. This field also works nicely with our existing Authorize.Net and First Data payment integration.
Number Field
The new number field is great for order forms too in that if you need users to type in a price, quantity or something similar, you can make sure they enter in a valid number. You can also restrict number fields to a minimum value and/or a maximum value, round values to a set number of decimal places, or attach a currency symbol. Number fields can also be represented using a slider widget so users can select a value along a pre-defined range.
Description Area
Lastly, we’ve added description areas which aren’t really fields, but content areas where you can add text, images, video, or any custom HTML. They’re similar to the content areas within sections, but can fit inline in multi-column forms next to other fields to help you better customize the form.
We hope you enjoy the new functionality. Let us know what you think in the comments or the forums.
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Written by Ade OlonohAde is the founder and CEO of Formstack. He wears many hats, but spends much of his time developing and supporting the product. Ade graduated from Anderson University with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics, and has spent much of his career developing web-based applications as a freelancer or consultant for a number of different companies. When he's not writing code or crushing his co-workers in a game of Mario Kart, he's probably having a blast with his wife and two kids.
9 Responses to “New Field Types”
Sassan A. Tat
Congratulation – the new fields are awesome. We would like to see address and phone number fields in a proper formatting for Germany too!
Jon
This is what we are looking for. Thank you!
Gerdi
I totally agree with Sassan A. Tat, the new fields are great. It would be great if you could provide address in zip code Dutch (European) formatting as well.
chris
@Sassan and @Gerdi -Thanks for the kind words! We are looking at formatting the address and phone for other countries and will evaluate what countries make the most sense based on our users. Thanks for the input, we do appreciate it.
chris
@Jon, glad you like the new additions! thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment, we appreciate it!
Lexie
This is GREAT! Love the new fields! Thank you!
Jen W.
Awesome! The matrix field will be very useful to us. Keep up the good work!
rth
It would be a awesome if you could integrate the matrix field into the calcs. I am setting up an event registration form and would like to display 20+ seminars for people to sign up to and have a selection of 0-5 next to each seminar for number of people signing up to each seminar. At the end I need a total number of tickets so I can calculate a price and have the attendees pre-pay for the seminars.
Seems like this could be done by making a few pre-defined column choices with a few different number choices (0 through 5, 1 through 10 etc…) that would output a total number
Tquatre
How about validation of other common numeric entries such as social security number (XXX-XX-XXXX) and birthdate (MM/DD/YYYY)?