Improvements to Form Designer

Based on your suggestions, we have made some major improvements on how Form Templates can be designed going forward. We have completely rewritten how the fields load and work, resulting in a faster load time as well as easier organisation of fields.

Only one instance of the generic fields and its available count

We have replaced the multiple instances of generic fields on the left pane with a short and simple list as shown above. This new list just shows the different type of fields that are available for use in a template and the number of times it can be used. Now you don’t have to scroll through the list and count how many fields you have left.

As you can see from the above screenshot, the number of fields available for use will decrease depending on how many of them are used in the Design section. Similarly when the fields are removed from the design section and placed back on the fields pane, the number increases accordingly.

Drop down to choose between Generic fields and Attributes for the Parent/Student Section

Only the selected type of fields will be displayed in the left pane and this helps Users to better differentiate and organise data.

Placing the fields at any part of the design

Another useful feature of the new form designer is to drag the fields to any part of the School or Parent section instead of them being placed by default at the bottom of the design section

In the above example a checkbox list was placed directly in between the text and the long description fields. This saves time as well as the confusion locating the fields in a large Template.

Preview of the Template in the design page

Schools can now preview a Template from the design page and make modifications accordingly. This saves considerable amount of time and work as previously preview could be only done after a Slip was created from a Template and in Draft stage.

The Preview button can be found at the bottom of the design page along with the Save Template option.

These new features are available for all types of Form templates e.g. Parent/Student Slips, Broadcasts and School Forms, with the exception of School forms, where Users will only see generic fields from the School section.

Any questions? Contact EdSmart Support.