This post is a part of the Form Lingo Blog Series that helps define popular words and phrases within the Formstack application. As a reiteration of the Formstack Support Docs, this series is a response to our customers’ frequently asked questions about particular features, setting options, field names, etc.
When creating a web form, you may have additional questions to ask in regards to the features that come with your plan. This post is the first of many to help you better understand some “web form lingo” that can add an extra boost to your online form.
As you embark on your online form building journey, there are several things to keep in mind to make sure you create the best online forms possible. Below, we’ve compiled a handy-dandy cheat sheet of best practices to consider when designing your online forms.
Our conditional logic feature allows you to show or hide fields based on how users respond to other questions on your form. It also allows for you to keep your forms simple and organized so your user isn’t confused on which fields they should or shouldn’t fill out.
Many organizations use Formstack for things like contact forms, order forms and event registrations. But one important overlooked aspect of what you can do with Formstack is the ability to create and quickly deploy surveys or customer/user feedback forms. Surveys don’t have to be done by big corporations and they don’t have to be long and arduous. Quick, effective, online surveys can allow your organization to gain valuable feedback from your customers or users. A while back we wrote about some tips for your contact forms so we thought we would give you some tips on how your organizations can use and deploy surveys.
Spring is here and that means the spring/summer sports leagues are kicking into high gear. We have a wide variety of sports and rec leagues who already use Formstack for online registration/sign up forms and one big issue that many leagues have is getting the players and their families to fill out the necessary forms and turn them in the first day of practice.
We are consistently trying to expand the ways that you can access information to aide you in the form building process. We have added two new videos. The first is how to use Conditional Logic and the second is how to use Self-Calculating Form Fields.
Often times we talk about Formstack being used by small businesses and nonprofits, but there is also a strong number of educational institutions (Colleges, School Corps, Athletic organizations, etc.) that are using our form builder and using it in many unique ways.
We recently announced our new Smart Routing functionality and many of you have started using it and or at least testing it out. We wanted to do a quick post on how businesses with multiple departments can use Smart Routing with notification emails, to save time and manage their online forms quickly and efficiently.
For those of you who use the Conditional Logic (Skip/Branching) feature in your forms you know how powerful a tool it is. By providing different questions to your users, based on the answers they provide, you can quickly and easily build smart forms that obtain the data that you really need.
