The Form Templates are at the heart of EdSmart. You can have as many templates as you like, and completely customise the fields on the Form to your requirements. This article describes the many field variations and options available to you.
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- Human Body - a human body outline, front and back views.
- Long Description - a mini word processor where you can style the font, size and colour of the text, embed URL links, or just paste it in from another document.
- Text Field - a single line text field.
- CheckBox List - a group of one or more checkboxes, where the user can select one or more of the options. You can have as many options as you wish.
- Option List - a drop-down list of one or more options, where the user can select one option. Like the checkboxes, you can have as many options as you like.
- Read Only Text Block - a large formatted text field that will display as read-only text to users, great for explanatory text, notes, instructions and other information.
- Date Field - select a date from a calendar (day, month and year).
- Venue Address - these work just like a normal Text Field but, if you enter a valid address, a Google Map will be created and displayed in the Form.
- File Upload (Parent/Student Slips Only) - this field allows Parents/Students to upload attachments to Slips before submitting the Form.
- Student Attributes Field - user-defined fields of information you wish to maintain about a Student.
- Contact Attributes Field - user-defined fields of information you wish to maintain about a Contact.
There are different fields, and different numbers of each field available, depending on whether you are in the School section or the Parent/Student section of your Form design. All of the field types, except for the Human Body and Attributes, allow for additional customisation. For example, when you edit a Venue Address or Text Field you will find a number of options:
Field Name
The label that will be displayed for this field on the Form
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| HTML tags can be used to format the Field Name. The three supported options are: <b> (bold), <u> (underline) & <i> (italics). For example, a field name entered as <b>Start Date<b> will display as Start Date in the Form. |
Field Group
You can group fields into sections, and lock/unlock those fields as the Form moves through the Workflow.
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Here you are able to specify what type of data should be entered into the field. There are 11 options including email, address, number and time formats. The default is No Validation.
In addition, some field types (Read Only Text Block, Long Description, Option List or CheckBox List with Enable 'Other' field selected), allow you to change the formatting (font, size, colour, background) of the text you enter.
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